Home-monitoring programs are coming to your cellphone, BlackBerry and computer. These tools make it easy to spy on -- or obsess over -- your residence.

Nearly one out of five landlords are ‘accidental’ ones, a new study reveals. June Fletcher on what this means for homeowners and renters.

Farmer's wife Janet Scarratt, 66, has built up a unique collection of antique weighing scales with her husband Noel over 34 years.

Deciding whether to accept help in buying a home or other financial assistance from your spouse's family can be difficult because of strings that may be attached.

Option adjustable-rate mortgages are raising concerns among investors and consumers over fears that borrowers will struggle to make payments when higher interest rates on the loans take effect.

This time next year, some homeowners who pay mortgage insurance will have an extra deduction on their federal income tax returns.

Boosted by warmer weather, construction of new homes increased last month to the highest level this year, the Commerce Department estimates.

Although Robin Katz has always had an interest in art, he didn't fully appreciate the investment possibilities in the medium until he had bought his first piece.

By general consensus, Herbert von Karajan’s first (1963) Beethoven cycle for Deutsche Grammophon is the best of the four (!) that he recorded. The Berlin Philharmonic was in top form, and they had not yet made an artistic fetish out of the bland smoothness that typified the conductor’s later recordings of this music (and just about everything else). Karajan’s squeaky clean, emotionally cool Beethoven will always be something of an acquired taste, but this set makes the best possible case for it. –David Hurwitz

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