Now more than ever is the time to buy a new home.  With an improving economy, mortgage rates at historic lows, and prices depressed, a savvy buyer can find excellent deals in today's real estate market.  A new sign that it may be time to stop renting and start buying is the latest data from Rent.com...

The rich are buying real estate.  After four years of declines, sales of million plus properties rose nearly 20% last year.  Buoyed in part by stock prices which have nearly doubled since their 2009 lows the wealthy are shopping for new homes at a feverish pace.  Getting a mortgage for these expensive...