The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed a new regulation, Injury and Illness Prevention Program, or I2P2, which would compel employers to find and fix safety hazards.

Seventy-four housing markets across the nation saw median home prices increase in the first quarter of 2012, the National Association of Realtors said in a report released Wednesday, which is slightly more than half of all the markets it surveys.

El Paso, Texas city officials called for building code upgrades after a historic 130-year-old downtown building burned to the ground.

San Juan Capistrano, Calif. intends to reduce the fee that developers pay to help fund state-mandated affordable housing in town by 10 percent.

Sitting at the head of Realtor.com’s Top Turnaround Towns for the first quarter of 2012, the Phoenix-Mesa market is one of many areas hit hardest by foreclosures that are now showing signs of recovery.

Fannie Mae reported a first quarter profit of $2.7 billion Wednesday, and will not require Treasury Department funds to balance its books for the first time since 2008, according to Business Week.

Medford, Ore., and Madera-Chowchilla, Calif., top the list of housing markets expected to see the most growth over the next five years.

The long-awaited turnaround in the housing market may finally be underway, at least in the active adult segment, if data provided by Epcon Communities are any indication.

Using data released last week by Trulia on rentals in the 100 largest housing markets nationwide, 24/7 Wall Street determined the six U.S. metropolitan areas where rental costs have increased the sharpest in the last year (by 10 percent or more).