Oil prices rebound 
World oil prices jumped overnight on global supply jitters linked to Iran despite news that US energy inventories rose last week, analysts said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in June, advanced $US1.44 to close at $US72.13 a barrel.

Tyrrell: The supply-side miracle continues 
It is very reassuring that Republican negotiators in the House and Senate have reached an agreement to extend President George W. Bush’s cuts in tax rates on dividends and capital gains. Equally reassuring, the negotiators plan to liberate as many as 15-million middle-income Americans from the impending burden of the alternative minimum income tax. Now the unparalleled economic growth that has

How we’re coping with gas prices 
Last week, we asked democratherald.com readers what theyre doing to cope with the price of gasoline. Heres what they had to say: Coping with gas prices by making errand trips all at once.

Abbotsford houses approval 
Planners recommend approval of 79 houses opposite the historic home of Sir Walter Scott.

With city far from whole, FEMA closes long-term recovery office 
NEW ORLEANS - The Federal Emergency Management Agency office charged with helping New Orleans devise a blueprint to rebuild destroyed houses, schools and neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina is being closed and nearly all its workers reassigned.

Springsteen delivers emotional set at Jazz Fest 
The first weekend of the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ended with a slow, elegiac version of the Crescent City standard “When the Saints Go Marching In,” just the kind of thing you’d expect at the first Jazz Fest since Hurricane Katrina.

Porno shoot lays an egg on Easter Sunday 
LOS ANGELES — On Easter Sunday, inside the million-dollar houses on a quiet cul-de-sac in Encino, the neighborhood kids delighted in what the Easter Bunny had brought.

The birds that blocked 20,000 new homes 
All plans for new housebuilding have been frozen over a massive area of the Home Counties to protect three species of rare birds in the most remarkable clash yet between environment and development in Britain.

Report: Many city workers can’t afford homes 
CUMBERLAND - City housing prices are lower than the 11 other Mid-Atlantic region homes surveyed in a recent report, but many public workers may still have trouble affording homes in Cumberland.

Homes For Heroes 
Business was never my best subject. So when I found out I’d be covering a program that helps military families buy homes in Iowa, I got worried. Would I be crunching numbers and interviewing talking heads all day?

Stock buys Davis Homes Wholesale 
Stock Building Supply, which provides building materials to contractors in the U.S., bought Davis Homes Wholesale.

Aug. 29 deadline on Katrina houses 
NEWORLEANS, La., April 21 (UPI) — The New Orleans City Council gave hurricane victims until Aug. 29, Katrina’s first anniversary, to clean, gut and board their devastated homes.

Dublin house prices continue to rise 
The average price of a second-hand house in Dublin has increased by over 10% since the start of the year, according to a price survey released today.

NEW ZEALAND 
The country might be far off the beaten track but dinner-table chat about house prices is as common in New Zealand as it is in the UK, US or Japan.

East Lothian tops league as Scottish house prices soar 
HOUSE prices in Scotland have more than doubled over the past 10 years, according to figures published yesterday. East Lothian had the biggest price rises in Scotland with a 180% gain in average price since 1996.

(AFX UK Focus) 2006-04-18 07:16 GMT: UK house prices rise for 5th month running in March - RICS 
LONDON (AFX) - UK house prices rose for the fifth month running in March, though at a slower pace than in February, a key survey showed today.

Atlanta Community Offers Amenities of Earlier Age 
A New Urbanist community in Atlanta is trying to re-create a way of life that has largely disappeared in the age of the automobile. Houses tend to be close together; streets are easy to walk. While often found in the suburbs, neighborhoods like Glenwood Park are increasingly showing up in cities.

Emir receives delegations 
DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani received yesterday at Sheraton Doha hotel members of the British Houses of Lords and Commons on the periphery of the 6th Doha Forum on Democracy Development and Free Trade currently in session in Doha. The delegation comprised of Baroness Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Rawlings, Lord Holme L, Mike Ghabbes and Lord Haul Ligelford.

Man Missing After Northern Calif. Mudslide 
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - A 73-year-old man was reported missing early Wednesday after going outside as a 10-foot wall of mud slid into his house in rain-soaked Northern California. “We’re still considering this a rescue operation,'’ said Fire Battalion Chief Greg Moore. Three other houses on the man’s street were evacuated in the hilly community about 10 miles north of San Francisco. Recent

Kiwis Search For Clothes and Satellites 
After three months as NZs most searched for item, Apples ipod has been replaced by Pumpkin Patch & Roxy clothing, Hamilton houses and a misplaced Optus B 1 Satellite.

Indian cement results seen mixed, outlook strong 
MUMBAI, April 10 (Reuters) - Indian cement companies are set to produce a mixed bag of quarterly results, but surging prices and booming demand from heavy investment in houses, shopping malls and roads should boost earnings in the coming quarters.

One in three in UK considering buying property abroad 
According to UK retail lender Barclays, 37% of British people are considering buying houses abroad, however many underestimate the cost involved.

Barnako Goes All Blog 
Longtime Internet watcher Frank Barnako is giving up his column to become a full-time blogger for Marketwatch.

It Takes 10,000 Villages… 
On Thursday, Nov. 3, the Presbyterian Women are having a party in the Warren Room of Selma’s First Presbyterian Church to preview their Ten Thousand Villages Festival.

Google Video Kills Autoplay 
Google Video has turned off automatic continuous playback, responding to complaints from customers, including my own rabbi/lesbian example.

Fires destroys 14 homes in Amarillo 
AMARILLO, Texas — Two fast-moving wildfires erupted in this dry and windy Texas Panhandle city Thursday, destroying 14 homes and several structures before they were brought under…

Bon Jovi/Habitat for Humanity Partnership Grows to Six Homes With New Donation From Sprint 
Jon Bon Jovi and Habitat for Humanity gave a heart-warming update on the status of their partnership that began in June ‘05, broke ground last October, and will build homes in Philadelphia through Summer ‘06 thanks to a newly announced donation from Sprint in partnership with Jon Bon Jovi and the Philadelphia Soul.

Panel OKs tougher CPS rules for removing kids from homes 
PHOENIX A House panel voted Thursday to make it more difficult for Child Protective Services to take youngsters from homes after a legislator testified that some caseworkers lie.

Benefits to raise funds for two families who lost homes in fires 
Charred remains of two Great Falls area homes are not the only problems for two families that lived there. In addition to seeing their homes destroyed on different days last month, neither family had fire insurance coverage, making their situations even more difficult.

(AFX UK Focus) 2006-03-27 09:16 GMT: China B-shares close higher on gains in real estate issues - UPDATE 
SHANGHAI (AFX) - B-shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen closed higher with real estate developers driven up by renewed buying interest, dealers said.

W.C. & A.N. Miller’s Virginia Office Increases Its Share of Northern VA Real Estate Sales 
During 2005 W.C. & A.N. Miller increasedits corporate market share of the Northern Virginia residential marketplaceby 410% according to a recent study by Data Concepts. Among the top 16 realestate firms and franchises doing business in Northern Virginia, Millershowed the largest increase in market share based on dollar volume. In amarket share study of real estate companies that do business in

Booming Abu Dhabi real estate market creating unprecedented investment opportunities 
The Abu Dhabi real estate market has been experiencing unprecedented growth over the past two years and is poised for a coming decade of growth and development that has never been seen before in the emirate forecasted RSP Group, the largest regionally-based real estate and hospitality investment advisory organization in the Middle East.