A real estate agent who represented a caregiver who purchased the home of  an 83-year-old widow — apparently without the widow’s knowledge — has been fined $8,000 by the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO). The widow, Stella Wasiuk, supposedly agreed ...

Next year, housing affordability will continue to drop and home loans will be easier to secure, according to year-ahead predictions from Trulia’s Chief Economist Jed Kolko. In addition, Kolko believes that repeat buyers will be the dominant player in residential ...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford — stripped of most of his powers last month in the wake of a crack cocaine scandal — has thrown his weight behind a plan that would seemingly be a hit with homebuyers and real estate ...

Zillow and DocuSign have been named among the 50 best medium-sized companies to work for by jobs site Glassdoor in its 2014 Employees’ Choice Awards. Zillow ranked 26th, earning 4.1 out of five possible stars based on the reviews of employees ...

Applications for purchase loans increased a seasonally adjusted 1 percent for the week ending Dec. 6  compared to a week earlier but were down 10 percent on an annual basis, according to the latest Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the Catholic Church's new leader has changed the perception of the 2,000-year-old institution in an extraordinary way in a short time.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man who appeared to provide sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela's memorial service, attended by scores of heads of state, was a "fake," the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa said on Wednesday.

The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial was accused Wednesday of being a fake who merely flapped his arms around during speeches. "He's a complete fraud," Cara Loening, director of Sign Language Education and Development in Cape Town told AFP. The interpreter, who translated eulogies including those of US President Barack Obama and Mandela's grandchildren, looked as if he was "trying to swat a few flies away from his face and his head". "The deaf community in South Africa are completely outraged and nobody knows who he is," said Loening.

WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — He had survived three days in an upside down tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and then he saw lights in the water. Air bubbles rose around the cook as he squatted in an air pocket. A diver was coming. Rescue seemed imminent for Harrison Odjegba Okene.

LONDON (AP) — Financial markets were sluggish Wednesday as an apparent budget deal in the U.S. Congress failed to divert attention from investors' primary focus — whether the Federal Reserve will reduce its stimulus next week.