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Also in Private Properties: a Colorado home's asking price is reduced 45% to $9.95 million; the former San Francisco home of Levi Strauss heirs asks $11.25 million.

Billionaire mortgage magnate Dan Gilbert is expected Thursday to unveil a plan that envisions recasting Detroit's core as a pedestrian paradise, with plazas, outdoor cafes and retail activity spilling onto the streets.

Built for German nobility, these homes offer promise of a fairy-tale life—but can cost a king's ransom.

A home with a starring role in the Oscar-nominated film, 'The Blind Side,' is on the market for $3.9 million.

Views of San Francisco Bay usually are prized. But the cost of renting office space with a water view in San Francisco's Financial District has risen more slowly since the recession than the cost of renting space without a view.

Greenland Group has become the latest Chinese property developer to look abroad, as many seek to diversify as well as cater to rising demand from Chinese migrants and investors.

Many of the city's wealthiest families see an era marked by a meteoric rise in real-estate prices coming to an end.

This 15th-floor, three-bedroom apartment with floor-to-ceiling glass walls in Astor Place was a significant change from the owners' previous home, a pre-war apartment near Central Park.

Some investors in the nation's capital aren't losing sleep over politics.

U.S. shopping-mall owners, already hit with store closures by longtime laggard Sears are now pondering what steps to take if struggling chain J.C. Penney closes some of its 1,104 stores.

The collapse of several major British retail chains over the past year already has prompted retail landlords to reduce lease rates to the lowest levels in years.

U.S. housing recoveries almost always have been ignited by demand from families and individuals. This time, investors—including big Wall Street players—are leading the way.

A U.S. regulator is taking aim at a practice that has hit millions of struggling borrowers with high-price homeowners' insurance policies.

Concrete has gone far beyond sidewalks and fallout shelters, and now it's increasingly popular in home décor.

This suburban home near Auckland, New Zealand, has a curved ceiling, a tropical garden and plenty of surf-themed artwork.

In the spirit of March Madness, three homes on the market that include basketball courts and other amenities for sports buffs

Dating back in part to the 17th century, this six-bedroom home in the village of Bix, in southeast England, mixes the modern with the Early Modern.

Westfield Group, an Australian developer of shopping malls, will receive about $700 million after selling stakes in six malls in Florida to O'Connor Capital Partners of the U.S.

The bank is in talks to settle an SEC probe into a mortgage-backed bond deal that went bad after the housing crisis.

It's not easy, but money can be found to buy a forlorn property. Here are some options.