Money: With prices down by a third in many markets, it may be time to start shopping for the house you want to end up in.

Diana Olick: As we sit here poised on the edge of our seats, waiting to hear the details of how the Obama administration will use $50 billion of TARP money to ease the foreclosure crisis, a curious stat crossed the news wires. Apparently more potential home buyers are wandering through new homes.

FOX: Construction of new homes plunged to a record low in January as all parts of the country showed big declines in building activity.

Forbes: If you’re looking to unload your property and finding few buyers, there are alternatives to dropping the price below what’s palatable.

New York Times: YOU’VE heard of no-fee apartments, but no-fee brokers? It’s a counterintuitive idea for New York real estate, but then again, these are counterintuitive times. And Lee Lin and Lawrence Zhou, young Wall Street types with degrees from M.I.T. and Wharton School on their walls, think they can make it work.

KSL.com: The concept of home staging is pretty simple: Clean, stylize and depersonalize your home so others could imagine it as their home. Arburn says it’s especially important in a buyer’s market

US News And World Report: While some retirees head straight for America’s sun districts—Florida, South Carolina, California, to name a few—others travel clear across the border to launch their postcareer lives. And since many overseas retirement hubs combine a reduced cost of living with a delightful tropical climate, it’s no wonder they’re so appealing.

Great Reporter.com: Homeowners are not just making simple improvements; many are revamping homes to suit changing lifestyles as well as accommodate increasing environmental pressures.

US News & World Report:  As the mortgage crisis drags down prices across the country, homeowners can squeeze additional tens of thousands of dollars from the sale of their property by becoming their own agents. “If you cut out all agents—meaning post your own online ad, put out a yard sign, and sold your home on your own—you would essentially cut out on average about 6 percent of commission,”

The Motley Fool:  After soaring for years, home prices have fallen sharply, and sellers want to get as much as they can for their homes. Sometimes, they mull over the idea of going it alone. After all, you can go to any open houses on your own, and you can make an offer on any home on your own. Likewise, you can put out signs and sell your home on your own, too.