Demand for bioscience research facilities and lab space is helping to reignite interest in this sector of commercial real estate.

With more than 1.5 million owners seriously delinquent on their mortgage, new measures aim to keep them in their homes.

“Even with the absence of foreign buyers, the U.S. housing market strengthened solidly,” says NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Read highlights from the association’s latest international residential real estate report.

Southern and Western states are magnets for this cohort of home buyers.