Real Estate
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Bids to start at $1.2 million for Lake in the Hills shopping centerJan 21, 2018 12:00 am - A Lake in the Hills shopping center that housed a now shuttered Dominick's store is being auctioned off next month for a starting bid of $1.2 million. The Centre at Lak...
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Creative design for the disabled - and everybody else, tooJan 20, 2018 5:00 am - NEW YORK - From snazzy canes to tremor-proof spoons to a racing wheelchair, a new exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum highlights a surge in designs fo...
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Project may begin when approved by boardJan 20, 2018 5:00 am - Q. The board of our association approved a very significant roof project at a board meeting, and the project is to begin in just a few weeks. However, the board meets qu...
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How to get started in the business of investment propertyJan 20, 2018 5:00 am - Q. My wife is all fired up about the real estate people we see on TV. Do you have an opinion about investing in the courses they offer? They offer a free session at a mo...
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A new approach to mortgage designJan 20, 2018 5:00 am - For decades, the principal motivation driving home mortgage design was to increase affordability. The logic was that homeownership was desirable, and the more affordable...
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What if Amazon based it HQ2 choice just on housing costs?
Jan 20, 2018 12:00 am - If Amazon wants to locate its HQ2 in the most-affordable spot for housing, there's an obvious choice: Pittsburgh. The tech giant's list of 20 potential sites for its sec...
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The best way to make the most out of small storage spaceJan 19, 2018 7:00 am - Organizing and decluttering expert Julie Morgenstern, who has run her namesake New York City-based business for more than 25 years, joined staff writer Jura Koncius on T...
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Don't think of antiques as investmentsJan 19, 2018 6:00 am - The antiques business has been going through a bit of a rough patch, what with the continuing vogue for midcentury modern and IKEA-addicted millennials' dislike for brow...
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Subway tile rises to the height of farmhouse chicJan 19, 2018 5:00 am - It's Season 4, Episode 11 of HGTV's smash hit, “Fixer Upper,” and Joanna Gaines is walking her husband, Chip, through her vision to transform a vacant turn-of-the-centur...
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Old trees will tell you when their time is upJan 19, 2018 5:00 am - Old magnolias never die, they just fade away. That seems to be the fate of the most historic tree at the White House, a Southern magnolia planted by Andrew Jackson and n...