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An unnamed buyer paid more than $90 million for a Midtown Manhattan penthouse, the highest price ever paid for a New York apartment, according to the building’s developer.

Like so many Americans across the nation, Julie Clark commutes to work. But she doesn’t drive, walk or even take a bus or train. Instead, she flies a plane.

The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data. It is edited by Julian Hebron, a retail mortgage lender who runs the San Francisco branches of RPM Mortgage.

Buying a home has reached its most affordable level in more than two decades.

Buying a home just got even cheaper as interest rates on both 30-year and 15-year-fixed-rate mortgages set record lows for the third week in a row.

Foreclosure filings in April fell for the third straight month to the lowest level since July 2007.

House prices in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, rose sharply during the year to April 2012.

After four years of price falls, the Czech Republic’s residential market remains depressed.After four years of price falls, the Czech Republic’s residential market remains depressed.

The percentage of borrowers who have dropped behind on their mortgage payments fell to a four-year low in the first three months of 2012, a bankers’ group said Wednesday.

The film emperor may be striking back. For 25 years, filmmaker George Lucas tried to persuade his Marin County, Calif., neighbors to let him build a digital production studio on his ranch there, but the area’s residents thwarted the plan.