Buy & Sell

Chic geeks give San Francisco a new tech groove

The YouTube video, featuring a young blonde sitting in a strikingly modern San Francisco home, offers a telling insight into the attitudes that are shifting the geography of the Bay Area technology scene.

"Flip This": foreclosed homes attract investors

At the height of the housing bubble, the practice of "flipping" homes - buying them for cheap, fixing them up and reselling them for a quick profit - was popular enough to inspire its own TV show.

Cities where houses sell the fastest in the U.S.

As home sales pick up, it is clear that a significant number of homes purchased in today’s market are bought by investors looking to generate rental income, according to the National Association of Realtors.