Remodeling your home is kind of like buying a new car. Over time, it will be worth a lot less than you paid for it. That sun room addition? Expect to recoup only about 40 percent of your investment — if you’re lucky. In fact, real estate agents say many home buyers don’t even like [...]

Many people rely on their garage doors often because they use them all the days off work and come back home thereafter. This means that once it breaks, it’s a big drawback. In the best case it breaks and you have to manually open and close it until you can get professional repair garage doors, [...]

Bank of America continued to file foreclosure-related actions in its own name Wednesday, the day after a state law directly aimed at that practice by the mortgage-servicing giant took effect. The new law allows homeowners who were illegally foreclosed on to go to court to seek payment of damages, penalties of up to $2,000 and [...]

The first Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Utah opened at Fashion Place mall, along with the first Sephora cosmetics store. By the end of the year, specialty retailer Crate and Barrel, apparel chain H&M and a BRIO Tuscan Grille restaurant will follow suit with their first locations. Built nearly 40 years ago, Fashion Place stands out [...]

Weeds poking out through cracks in the driveway. A grimy front door. A dirty kitchen. Closets crammed with stuff. Too many garden gnomes. Garages that can no longer fit any cars. Although sellers often think about replacing big-items such as roofs and flooring, veteran Realtors say the former often overlook small and inexpensive fixes that [...]

Investors lifted U.S. home sales last month, plunking down cash to grab cheap homes at risk of foreclosure. But purchases made by first-time homebuyers fell, a troubling sign for the weak housing market. Sales of previously occupied homes rose in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.1 million, the National Association of Realtors [...]