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Four Corners Of Frustration [Central Florida] Welcome to Four Corners, one of the hottest growing communities in the shadow of Walt Disney World. To some, however, it’s the Twilight Zone, a loosely defined area where four counties collide and residents have to cope with seven ZIP codes, three area codes and a trio of water …
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Welcome to Gentrification City [Los Angeles] Teardowns. Evictions. Investment. Rebirth. And the significance of that new gelato stand. The perils and pleasures of gentrification Paul Giannotti couldn’t wait another day to embrace the big city. Bored in his placid corner of the San Fernando Valley, he had been searching for a shorter commute, an apartment …
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Tech Booms, Real Estate Busts? Just as the Silicon Valley job market starts to heat back up, home buying hits the skids in the land of venture capitalists and tech startups. The dot-com bubble is long over, but then there’s that other bubble—the one that folks in Silicon Valley often insist never happened here—real estate. …
Report: McAllen-area homes undervalued [Texas] Eric Rodriguez and his fiancée, Julia Raney, weren’t looking for quite the home they got when they started looking for a trade-up from their apartment two years after they graduated law school. What they got for just more than $155,000 was a 2,400-square-foot, newly remodeled home off Harvey Avenue and …
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Delays at Eden condos in Boca spur suit More than two years after Sherri and Neil Eisner signed a contract to pay $475,000 for a Boca Raton condo, their unit still isn’t finished. The frustrated couple asked the developer, Ceebraid-Signal of West Palm Beach, for their 10 percent deposit back. The developer refused, so the …
Homeowners play double jeopardy A soft real estate market is leaving some buyers with one house too many Jan Pelligrini had been searching for her dream home for the better part of two years when she finally found it nestled on a hill in Gloucester. “When I drove by the house, I thought, `My agent …