North America Real Estate News

  GULF SHORES, Ala. — Nick Wilmott bent down on the beach near the high-tide mark and touched one of the reddish-brown pads of oil. It had washed up overnight from the BP spill off Louisiana and had yet to be cleaned up by the machines that sweep the beaches here every night.

 In the early 1980s, the pristine, beach-girdled Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was marked by little more than a few fishing villages. There was a hotel here and a hammock there, but not much of an effort to identify their position, nor much infrastructure to support them.  But just as it did for Cancun, which sprang up only about 1974, Mexico's government tourism dev [ ... ]

SANFORD, Fla.—In Central Florida, one of the nation's most-hobbled housing markets, home builders are welcoming what they see as a returning market by snatching up cheap land and beginning construction on smaller, less expensive subdivisions. Home builders have been able to slash prices on new homes, partly because land is still cheap —some say as much as 40% to 60% off boom-era lot price [ ... ]

Couple confident Main Street character home can defy real estate association expectations

Despite a new forecast that housing prices will drop 3.5 per cent in British Columbia in 2011, Jan Fricker and her husband Steve Lott are confident they will soon find a buyer for their east-side character house.

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- The Canadian competition bureau’s head, Melanie Aitken, said a move to sue the national real estate association in a bid to force them to open up their database will lower costs for consumers.

 When choosing to buy Mexico Real Estate and make it our new home, we consider the quality of the real estate, the comfort and the lifestyle it offers and the location; as a part of all of this, we also keep our fascination with Mexican culture in the back of our mind, whether it be the food, the music, the colorful artwork and traditional costumes, or the splendid architectural history. With [ ... ]

 The number of re-sale houses on the market in Canada hit a record in March, with the new supply helping ease price pressures in the market, the Canadian Real Estate Association said.

 Mexican President Felipe Calderon says his government "cannot and will not remain indifferent" in the face of Arizona's new immigration enforcement law, which he says violates human rights. But Mexico itself has "incredibly restrictive" immigration laws, experts told FoxNews.com.

 Mexico Real Estate continually brings new opportunities for those looking for both up-and-coming markets and for quieter, more affordable locations that are still relatively convenient and comfortable to live in. Two examples are the Campeche Real Estate area, the Yucatan peninsula’s “rising star,” and the Costa Maya Real Estate area, which is already drawing attention from internation [ ... ]

 OTTAWA — Marie-Yvonne Paint, a real estate agent in Montreal, has the kind of problem most of her counterparts in the United States can only dream about.