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Monday, November 1 No sales Tuesday, November 02, 2010 Hazelton Portion Sec. 14, T22N,R8E MERS $127,500 Tutunjian Lot 166, Pine Canyon #3 M&I Marshall & Ilsley $16,550.48 Wednesday, November 03, 2010 Wakefield ...
11/05/2010
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As Google contemplates buying its New York City headquarters for $2 billion, AOL’s Daily Finance takes a look at the five largest commercial real estate deals in U.S. history. All of them, it turns out, are in Manhattan.1. Stuyvesant Town: $5.3 billion These 110 building, 14-story, rent-stabilize...
11/04/2010
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While the overall rate of home ownership in the United States stood pat in the third quarter compared to the previous three months and slipped just 0.7 percent year over year, a much more pronounced slide occurred among the nation's minorities. According to the Census Bureau, the overall home own...
11/04/2010
Tuesday’s election outcome will almost certainly have an impact on the real estate industry and the issues that most seriously affect it. Here are two of the initial results.Ten of the 12 state attorneys general on the executive committee heading the foreclosure probe lost their re-election bids ...
11/04/2010
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Anyone who's contemplating bequeathing a home or some other property to someone other than a spouse or a charity might consider making the gift this year when there is no estate tax. After Jan. 1, 2011, the estate tax rate will be 55 percent (60 percent in some cases) on all but the first $1 mill...
11/04/2010
We've all seen the signs and the green Solar City trucks roaming around the Phoenix Metro area among other cities in the country. After years of APS yearly raising rates for various reasons I decided to start looking into solar. I have watched numerous commercials and decided to look at little...
11/03/2010
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By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR® Magazine The McMansion brought about oversized furniture to fill those expanded spaces, but now that spaces are shrinking, why hasn’t our furniture too? One expert offers up one reason why our furniture hasn’t scaled back — Americans are too fat. Apparently p...
11/03/2010
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Spending on construction rose 0.5 percent in September with home building and government projects leading the way, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Monday.Spending on home building rose 1.8 percent, but the increase was offset by spending on commercial construction, which dropped 1.6 percent...
11/03/2010
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The percentage of U,S. households that owned their homes remained at 66.9 percent in the third quarter, unchanged from the second quarter, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.The homeownership rate held steady for decades at 64 percent, but climbed to 69 percent in 2004. Since the housing bubble burst...
11/03/2010