Housing Zone

Many homeowners in the midwest are "supersizing" their garages.

Homeowners calls them McMansions. Developers consider them reinvesting and recycling homes.

The 'Graying of America' and 'Browning of America' are two of the three forces that will shape the future of housing across the nation.

Fiber optics and high speed Internet are becoming as fundamental as plumbing in new developments. Some developers envision a future as telecom providers.

About a quarter of baby boomers now between 40 and 45 are thinking about buying a home in a senior community.

Is traditional neighborhood design a fad or the new standard?

Housing development naming is much more an art than a science.

Centennial, L.A. County's city of tomorrow, incorporates 33 'strategies and guidelines' for creating better communities.

Generation Xers are traditional after all -- they buy homes like the ones they grew up in.

Builder Delcor Homes is targeting Generation X buyers who want a sense of neighborhood.

Nationwide, developers are beginning to target baby boomers with custom developments and ammenities.

Georgia's home-building industry is growing fast -- but at the expense of homebuyers.

A new index called the The Housing Cycle Barometer identifies metropolitan areas with overpriced housing markets.

The housing costs differences between coastal metropolises like New York and Los Angeles and booming interior cities like Charlotte and Boise may have to do more with politics than economics.

A new community in Maryland is being designed and built to appeal to baby boomers.