Featured Articles

• Planning home improvements? Best ROI by region

  Thinking about replacing siding in Texas or adding a deck in Tennessee? Nationally, these improvements offer good return on investment, but not in those regions. Find out the best remodels for where your home is.

• Home improvements 2014: best and worst ROI

  Home improvements are an investment, but are you investing in your comfort or the marketability of your home? Find out what the best and worst remodels are based on ROI.

• Investment properties: What do renters want?

  Small property investors face competition from corporate investors and large apartment complexes. Can you provide the amenities that tenants expect to get for the higher rents they have to pay these days? Here's what they want.

• Housing market 2014: sluggish or stellar?

  Buying, selling, investing or just interested in the economy -- if you are watching the housing market in 2014, you may be mystified by its movements. Here's how things stand at the end of Q3.

• Fixing Detroit's blight, whatever it takes

  Removing Detroit's blight and rebuilding that once-great city presents enormous hurdles to residents, city planners and investors. Find out what's being done to restore Detroit's homes and neighborhoods.

• 10 things to banish from your open house

  Your open house may attract a lot of attention, but hopefully not the wrong kind. Before potential home buyers show up, remove these 10 things so everything about your house can call their names.

• 5 reasons to put a downpayment on a fixer upper

  Many buyers want a turn-key home they can move into right away without touching a thing. So why buy a fixer-upper instead? Careful - this list may just convince you to buy one, too.