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Boom May Be Spilling Over To More Affordable Housing Markets Estacada, an isolated community of 2,500 residents, 25 miles southeast of the booming Portland real estate market, is on tap to build 450 homes this year with another 1,000 lots likely to be approved in the next few years. In West Virginia, home sales soared …
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Tips on handling foreclosure and pre-foreclosure situations Dear Bob: Our house is in the foreclosure process. Due to my husband’s unemployment and disability, we can’t afford the mortgage payments and are now two months behind. We have received several offers from investors who want to buy our house. And we want to sell because chances …
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Bal Harbour gives preliminary OK to $1 billion hotel project The $1 billion St. Regis-Bal Harbour Hotel and Residences, which one of its proponents touted will be “absolutely the highest-class hotel in South Florida,” has gained tentative approval of a zoning change from the Bal Harbour Village Council. The council’s 4-1 vote Jan. 5, following …
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New York Firm for sale after loss of land to school After 246 acres of its Flowerfield property was seized by Stony Brook University under eminent domain law, Gyrodyne Company of America is putting itself on the block. The company is working with an investment bank to find a buyer and alternatively plans to convert …
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Have you overimproved your home? Home improvement spending is frequently justified because it adds to a home’s value when it’s time to sell. And it often works out great. But there are dangers to look out for. “A lot of people who overimproved did a cash-out refinancing when rates were at a low, expecting housing …
Ynetnews – Money – Tshuva buys 3 Florida neighborhoods Elad paid a total of USD 91 million for the three neighborhoods, which contain 476 housing units, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday. The neighborhoods, constructed during the 1980s, are located at the town of Boca Raton near Miami. Elad plans to convert the housing …