Business news for Mon, 17 Dec 2007 & with word house. 13 news.

Real estate brokerage Royal LePage predicts house prices nationally will rise by 3.5 per cent to an average of $317,288 next year.

Real estate brokerage Royal LePage is forecasting "steady, yet moderate growth" in the Canadian residential property market in 2008.

A teenage girl and her 17-month old son were killed in an early morning house fire on Chicago's South Side, fire officials and said.

Democrats outlined a spending bill that gives in to White House demands but still puts their imprint on many government programs.

Shares of Memsic, a maker of sensors used to add touch, pedometer, or light-show functions to mobile phones, edged up 20 cents, or 2 percent, to $10.20 in the company’s debut on the Nasdaq Global Market Friday afternoon. The Andover, Massachusetts-based company is backed by Ottawa-based Celtic House Venture Partners and Waltham, Massachusetts-based Still River Funds, [...]

Reuters - Gloom over the British economy spread on Monday as the Confederation of British Industry slashed its growth forecasts and more evidence emerged of falling house prices.

The asking prices of homes put up for sale in England and Wales have fallen sharply in December, Rightmove says.

The little girls in my house have always been fans of Pixel Chix, the electronic toys that are shaped like a doll's house but have a sassy electronic girl inside.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A home-buyer's market is a beautiful thing when you are eyeing the house of your dreams, your appetite whetted by this year's nationwide drop in home prices. Add to this a free incentive by the seller, such as a finished basement or a flat-screen TV, and you may be tempted to close the deal sooner than you should.

Tracy-Jean Curry got the best mortgage deal her bank was willing to offer. And now she?s worried - because she took one of those loans everyone?s been talking about, even in the White House.

Not only can you buy furniture at Wal-Mart, but you can now shop there for a house to put it in, too.

Et tu, Brute? Last week, the market was by turns amused and bemused as Merrill Lynch, Sports Direct's house broker, turned on the company.

House prices in London have fallen by an average of £28,000 in the past month, as the capital sets the pace of an accelerating property downturn, a leading survey reports today.