housing

• Housing

• Metro home prices rise - and sales do, too, by 7.1%
• Creating a modern lakeside landmark
• What $169,900 buys in Twin Cities
• Communal living shares resources  + video
• Midcentury modern 'on the edge'
• Take a home tour of two cities
• What $365,000 buys in Twin Cities

• Foreclosures

• More home foreclosures on horizon in Minnesota
• US home repossessions accelerate in January and are expected to climb in 2012
• Empty apartment blocks haunt Spain as grim monuments to colossal real estate crash
• Mortgage deal could aid homeowners on the brink
• Ex-strippers, mortgage fraud and the North Side
• One tough year for builders
• Foreclosure rate rises in Twin Cities area

• Rentals

• Is landlord required to disclose future plans?
• Unusual hobby causes lease-renewal concerns
• Renting and the law: Cat allergies lead to questions about lease
• Renting & Law: They're worried tenants will trash place
• Tenants won't pay gas bill - or reply to landlord
• Landlord must send a CRP to tenant
• $23,000 bill from landlord seems excessive