Existing-home sales were down 4.3 percent in August compared with July, and sales fell 12.8 percent from August 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors.

A bill making its way through Congress would make it easier for commercial property owners to obtain property insurance, especially in disaster-prone areas.

Will online malls replace traditional bricks-and-mortar malls?

Think you know what buyers want in a home?

Every day, Jim Wise runs his cell phone dead.

A late-summer spike in interest rates for buyers of luxury homes may be subsiding, but the upper end of the real estate market is still feeling the effects of the nation’s ongoing mortgage crisis.

Wilhelmina DeShazo has been recruited for several executive positions in her career.

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Dauphin County’s farm-preservation effort hit the 10,000-acre mark last week, when the owners of a 76-acre Jackson Township farm entered their land into the state’s Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program.

Michael Brennan, former president of 361 Virtual Tours in Harrisburg, has left that company to form Fisheye Virtual Tours.

A Berks County development group plans to build three adjacent office buildings in TecPort Business Center along Port View Drive in Swatara Township, Dauphin County.

Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Harrisburg Area will break ground on its 50th house today at 25 Brady St. in Harrisburg.

A 10,000-square-foot Dollar Tree store is set to open in roughly a month at Carlisle Crossing in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, said Michael Sonnabend, a partner at New York City-based AFC Realty Capital Inc.

The chief financial officer of a recently shuttered building and remodeling company killed himself, according to the firm’s owners.