Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101

Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101 By MARGALIT FOX July 18, 2017 Frances Gabe put the kitchen of her self-cleaning house through its paces in 2002. By MARGALIT FOX July 18, 2017 For decades, Frances Gabe did not clean...

Market Value: Angry Over Zillow’s Home Prices? A Prize Is Offered for Improving Them

Market Value By NICK WINGFIELD May 24, 2017 SEATTLE — It’s one of the oldest tricks in an internet company’s playbook. Concoct a tool that gives the public new statistics on something — the quality of a restaurant or a toaster, say....

How a Golf Course Is Reshaping a New Orleans Neighborhood

The newly opened South Course at Bayou Oaks and Columbia Parc, a mixed-income development, rose from the ruins of Hurricane Katrina.

Economic View: How Tales of ‘Flippers’ Led to a Housing Bubble

May 18, 2017 Economic View By ROBERT J. SHILLER There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened. That is troubling, because that violent housing cycle helped to produce the Great Recession and financial crisis of 2007 to 2009. We need to...

Familiar Hurdle for a Tax Code Revamp: Trump’s Own Field

Real estate interests have shown their lobbying prowess, and the president has embraced positions that would benefit developers and complicate changes.