The Utah Jazz needed overtime while the San Antonio Spurs rolled to a rout Sunday as they squared both Western Conference series in the National Basketball Association playoffs.
Deron Williams scored 29 points with 14 assists for the Jazz, who blew a sizeable fourth-quarter lead but eked out the 123-115 overtime triumph over the Los Angeles [...]
Greater Sacramento’s home values have declined 30 percent since the peak of the housing market in fourth-quarter 2005, according to a real estate Web site.
And almost 70 percent of families in the four-county region who bought their homes in 2006 have negative equity, one of the highest rates in the nation but far from the [...]
Sales of new homes in the U.S. probably fell in February to the lowest level in almost 13 years, economists said ahead of a government report today.
Purchases declined to a 578,000 annual pace from 588,000 in January, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News survey. That would be the fewest since [...]
Housing prices are dropping steadily as interest rates are rising. Those who enjoyed the luxury and convenience of tapping into the rising value of their real estate holdings are suddenly feeling less wealthy. Americans relied on home equity lines of credit (HELOC) and home improvement loans during the past decade to fund everything from [...]
The national housing market is in turmoil, but that hasn’t stopped large home improvement retailers from moving into the Bay Area.
Lowes is the latest to add yet another mammoth store, this one in South San Francisco, less than five miles from its San Bruno store and within 12 miles of three competing Home [...]
A Dallas-based construction company under fire for not disclosing details of a $100 million contract it claims to have secured in Hillsborough County faces accusations of similar practices in the past.
Home Solutions of America Inc., parent company of Tampa-based contractor Fireline Restoration Inc., said May 31 that Fireline had won the contract for a [...]
The Home Depot Inc.’s net income dropped in the first quarter, as it endured a weakened spring selling season and continued to weather the soft housing market.
The Atlanta, Ga.-based home improvement retailer (NYSE: HD) operates nine stories in New Mexico, including locations in Albuquerque, Los Lunas, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, Roswell and [...]
The Home Depot Inc.s net income dropped in the first quarter, as it endured a weakened spring selling season and continued to weather the soft housing market.
The Atlanta-based home improvement retailer (NYSE: HD) had net income of $1 billion on $21.6 billion in sales, compared with net income of $1.5 billion on $21.5 [...]
Dirk Nowitzki scored 31 points and the Dallas Mavericks withstood a late Suns rally to hold off fellow Western Conference-heavyweight Phoenix, 108-105, at American Airlines Center.
Josh Howard had 23 points and seven rebounds and Devin Harris scored 21 to go with six assists as Dallas never trailed in winning its fourth straight.
Amare Stoudemire went for [...]
In a basement hotel ballroom in Delaware, with the board nowhere in sight and huge timers on stage to cut off angry investors, Home Depot held a hasty annual meeting last year that attendees alternately described as appalling and arrogant.
Don’t expect a repeat performance this year.
Home Depot annual meeting, scheduled for tomorrow, will strike [...]