Real Estate
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Jun 21, 2015 11:00 pm - A New Home Can Create Family Trauma About half of all families who purchase a new home have some regrets about their transition, it was revealed in a recent study. More...
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Listing of the weekJun 21, 2015 11:00 pm - Stunning water views abound from the huge windows in this large McHenry Cape Cod home, built along the Fox River in 1930. A heated four-season room, four decks and two p...
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Fixing a reverse mortgage trapJun 21, 2015 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Soon after Judy Stephens of Lafayette, Louisiana, lost her husband this past January, she got hit with more bad news, this time from the mortgage company. S...
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Pre-crisis HELOC chickens are coming home to roostJun 21, 2015 11:00 pm - Q. Ten years ago we purchased a house for $310,000 which we financed with a first mortgage for $255,000 at 3.75 percent, and a HELOC for $65,000 at 3.5 percent. The HELO...
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Homeownership rate expected to keep falling
Jun 21, 2015 7:31 am - WASHINGTON - The homeownership rate in the U.S. has been tumbling since the height of the housing boom. Fewer people own their homes - because foreclosures claimed them,...
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Thimbles offer limitless world of geometric patternsJun 21, 2015 7:00 am - KANAZAWA, Japan — Kaga yubinuki are ring-shaped thimbles featuring geometric patterns created using silk thread. A specialty of Kanazawa, the charming sewing implement h...
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What Mount Prospect would like to see from new Randhurst Village ownersJun 21, 2015 1:00 am - A New York-based real estate firm has purchased Randhurst Village shopping center in Mount Prospect, with plans to expand and further revitalize the center with addition...
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Re-create original stucco's look rather than replace itJun 21, 2015 12:00 am - Q. My husband was a plastering contractor. When we built our front porch, he covered pressure-treated lumber with marine cement to look like a Spanish stucco finish. Unf...
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Builders say rapid moves are now more commonJun 20, 2015 7:00 am - “During the heyday of the housing industry in the 1990s and early 2000s, people would sign a contract to build the home they wanted on the lot they preferred, but they w...
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Destructive southern pine beetle appears in Northeast statesJun 20, 2015 1:00 am - ROCKY POINT, N.Y. - The southern pine beetle, which for generations has attacked forests throughout the southeastern United States, is methodically making its way into t...