How a California couple found a new life in an ancient town in Catalonia.

Architect Bjarke Ingels is already designing the buildings of tomorrow, wildly expressive structures that are grounded in humanity.

Joris Laarman is mapping out a new aesthetic with robots, 3-D printers and his own unfettered imagination.

The nation’s top housing-finance regulator pushed back against criticism that he isn’t doing enough to help the troubled U.S. housing markets, saying that critics were asking him to do the bidding of Congress.

Should a reader convert his too-big home into a bed and breakfast?

The owner of Coney Island’s long-running freak show is back with his second Halloween spectacle. New this year: no antideveloper invective.

Results from some home builders seem to indicate that the industry may be hitting a bottom. PulteGroup and Ryland Group reported narrower quarterly losses from a year earlier, while Meritage Homes swung to a quarterly loss from the prior year’s profit.

A federal regulator revised the government’s likely tab for bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to $124 billion through 2014, an improvement over last year’s estimate.

E-House (China) Holdings has offered to acquire China Real Estate Information Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal that values China Real Estate at $897.3 million.

The volume of Irish retail sales (i.e. excluding price effects) fell by 0.8% in September 2011 when compared with the previous month and there was an annual decrease of 3.9%.