Two real estate companies owned by Boca Raton developer Gregory K. Talbott filed for Chapter 11 protection on Nov. 26 in West Palm Beach to stop their foreclosure sales, set for next Monday.

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Salaries at Houston nonprofit organizations increased by an average of 3.9 percent so far this year, according to the United Way of Greater Houston’s Wage and Benefit Survey.

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Buckeye Technologies Inc. is shutting down a plant in Brazil for the month of December and eliminating one shift at its Memphis cotton specialty fibers plant, the company said late Tuesday. (BKI)

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Fair Isaac Corp. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Chuck Osborne will retire effective July 31, 2009. (FIC)

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The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston, which advances money to more than 400 institutions in New England, awarded more than $10.2 million in grants, loans and subsidies to fund 390 units of affordable housing in seven Bay State communities.

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Fidelity National Financial Inc. will buy the title insurance subsidiaries of LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. following the company’s filing for bankruptcy. The move comes just days after Fidelity announced it had scuttled plans to acquire all of LandAmerica. (FNF) (LFG)

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Sales of new homes across the U.S. declined in October to the lowest annual rate since January 2001, the Census Bureau said Wednesday.

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The Friars’ Court project in Over-the-Rhine is one of eight low-income housing initiatives in Greater Cincinnati receiving grants from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati.

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Albuquerque's construction lenders are becoming increasingly delinquent according to third quarter statistics released by Oakland, Calif.-based Foresight Analytics.

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The latest Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that home prices continued to decline by double-digit percentages in September. (FISV)

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