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Continuing home renovations, an unsettled housing market and new flood maps have the Cullens questioning whether their home is adequately insured.

The Treasury Department is meeting with mortgage companies Tuesday to discuss ways to speed up the program for helping borrowers.

Banks are imposing tougher lending terms for consumers and businesses across the board, a Fed survey shows.

Homeowners often don’t take time to reassess home-insurance coverage when it’s time to pay the premium. But with many Americans looking for ways to save a buck these days, examining that paperwork could pay off.

Essay: We live in New York, the land of great coffee, breakfast pastries and the morning Times. Neither golf nor fishing — nor boating, playing tennis or bridge, or even sitting in the sun by the pool — appeal to me as regular pastimes. No, I thought. I could never be a Florida person.

The housing slump has created another type of pain: the suffering of people who find themselves navigating a tight rental market after losing their home to foreclosure.

Actress Andie MacDowell has bought land in an environmentally focused mountain community in western North Carolina and plans to build an eco-friendly house there … plus more.

June Fletcher explains why it may be another 12 months until the market improves.

Struggling U.S. homeowners could receive federal loans to pay down as much as 20% of their principal under a proposal by the FDIC to help stem foreclosures.

Heading into an economic downturn, hotels are often among the first industries to suffer. Now, vacancies are on the rise amid a construction boom. Investors, meanwhile, are trying to determine which hotel companies are best positioned to ride out a downturn.