My Affordable Real Estate

As Webcams and other home-monitoring devices become smaller and cheaper, some people have become voyeurs of their own vacation homes, using them to check up on the lawn guy or simply daydream about a place they’d rather be.

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A residential addition to a historic hotel in Montreal, and a luxury hotel and residential development in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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Many people who have settled in this small town have found a place that affords them more than a single pursuit.

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Entertaining is often the main reason for having a weekend or vacation home, and for many people that all but requires outdoor cooking.

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Sande Shurin, an acting coach and director, and her husband, Bruce Levy, converted a two-acre property in Woodstock, N.Y., into an actors’ retreat.

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Home-mortgage rates dropped this week, after a fall in commodity prices eased worries about inflationary pressures, Freddie Mac’s chief economist said.

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André Reiman and Joanna Mellors, American lawyers living in Lausanne, Switzerland, wanted something with a modern touch when they went house-hunting in Provence.

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A firm that acted as a middle man in a popular real-estate-investment strategy has closed its doors, leaving investors scrambling to recover millions and pointing to flaws in the largely unregulated industry.

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Freddie Mac will double the financial incentives it offers to mortgage servicers that help borrowers with Freddie-owned loans avoid foreclosure.

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