Mary Umberger

One new refrigerator on the market spews out filtered hot water on demand. Another one will fill your tumbler with sparkling water. Might Chardonnay be next? "Um, well, we'll put...

This is how hot this "zombie" thing has become in our culture — they've sleepwalked their way off the TV screen and into the real estate market. Well, sort of....

First-time buyers make the housing wheel go 'round: As they segue from renting to owning, they set off the sequence of move-up purchases that, in theory, will help the overall...

First-time buyers make the housing wheel go 'round: As they segue from renting to owning, they set off the sequence of move-up purchases that, in theory, will help the overall...

Most of us don't school ourselves much in the processes of finding and buying or renting a home — we just plunge right in, usually falling in love with a...

Most of us don't school ourselves much in the processes of finding and buying or renting a home — we just plunge right in, usually falling in love with a...

Something in salmon compels them to swim upstream. An invisible force calls swallows to return to Capistrano. And humans, primarily of the North American suburban variety, reach a certain age...

Something in salmon compels them to swim upstream. An invisible force calls swallows to return to Capistrano. And humans, primarily of the North American suburban variety, reach a certain age...

The world is experiencing a population boom of people who are absolutely rolling in money. And they're hungry for houses. Lately, they've acquired such trophies as an $88million penthouse in...