Give your customers some encouragement: Here are four good reasons for them to not wait to sell.

New York's Federal Reserve Bank president says interest rates will likely climb late next month, but the extent of the rise remains to be seen.

The U.S. government seized three of Bernard Madoff's properties and is selling them to reimburse victims of his $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

The Mortgage Bankers Association isn't immune to the softening real estate market either. The trade group has sold its Washington, D.C., headquarters for nearly $40 million less than what it paid in 2007.

The number of home owners who fear the value of their homes will fall in the next year declined in January to the lowest level since early 2007, according to a new survey.

A San Diego college professor is encouraging students to study real estate because, he says, by the time they graduate, he believes the business will have recovered.