After almost four year of economic recession, the strains of Auld Lang Syne that welcomed 2012 were sung with exuberant hope. This year held promise and, indeed, it appears to be living up to the anticipation by some people’s estimation. Others approach the good news with a grain of salt bearing...

Cut-rate mansions anyone? Hamptons real estate recovering

By Chris Francescani and Edith Honan

(Reuters) - When a five-bedroom waterfront estate in the Town of Southampton went on sale in 2008 for $5.8 million, the price must have seemed reasonable. After all, second-home prices on the...

The New Year is here! Such a time inspires us to look forward and ponder what our currently fresh slate will look like by this time next year. Let’s consider the happenings and real estate marketing tools that will be most beneficial to realtors in 2012.

 - All realtors wanted for Christmas was...

Experts agree that 2012 will continue to be a buyer’s market – a buyer with cash, that is.

Sources seem to be optimistic about the real estate market’s affordability in 2012. Lawrence Yun, the National Association of REALTORS’ chief economist, predicts that “very favorable affordability...