Craigslist has started to add maps to its sales listings, letting people view not just what items are being sold, but where those items are located on a map. Craigslist appears to be starting off with group events — garage sales, yard sales and flea markets — in a move that extends a feature Craigslist first introduced in October for apartment rentals. As with the apartments move — made just as Craigslist was tightening the legal screws on sites like PadMapper for repurposing its data Read more [...]

At Lambert Ranch, an Irvine, California, housing development where prices start at $1 million, just two of 98 homes are unsold since the project opened in May. The builder, New Home Co., is opening 14 neighborhoods in California this year for buyers who want to seize on low interest rates amid a scarce supply of homes for sale. "Everywhere we are, we can see it," Larry Webb, chief executive officer of Aliso Viejo, California-based New Home, said in a telephone interview. Read more [...]

WASHINGTON —With all the nail biting over fiscal policy and the economy in the closing weeks of 2012, you might have missed some of the positive trends under way for real estate.Start with home equity. It's growing Read more [...]