Articles filed under Real Estate
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U.S. new-home sales jump 7.9 percent in AugustSep 25, 2013 11:07 am - WASHINGTON — Americans stepped up purchases of new homes in August after cutting back in July, suggesting that higher mortgage rates are not yet slowing the housing reco...
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Former Wellington restaurant to be demolishedSep 25, 2013 3:00 am - Elk Grove Township Elementary District 59 will demolish the former Wellington restaurant building in Arlington Heights it acquired this summer, officials decided this we...
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Once-troubled Rolling Meadows apartment complex gets new ownersSep 24, 2013 4:00 pm - The Apartments at Woodfield Crossing, for many years a source of crime and controversy in Rolling Meadows, has been sold to an unnamed institutional buyer, its current o...
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Geneva Library drops purchase of former Cetron factorySep 24, 2013 3:00 am - The former Cetron factory on Richards Street won't be the site of a new Geneva Public Library. The library board voted 6-0 Saturday to drop the purchase, which it had ap...
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Rock-bottom mortgage rates evaporating on recovery in U.K.Sep 22, 2013 6:25 am - Rock-bottom mortgage rates may be a thing of the past in the U.K. as banks’ borrowing costs surge amid growing evidence that an economic recovery is taking hold. Five-ye...
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Mt. Prospect bans groundwater wells by Busse Car WashSep 21, 2013 4:29 pm - The Mount Prospect Village Board last week passed a ban on groundwater wells in the vicinity of the Busse Car Wash property at 113 E. Prospect Ave. According to village ...
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Listing of the weekSep 21, 2013 12:39 am - This magnificent brick, stone and stucco home with a cedar-shake roof in the Braymore Hills of Inverness subdivision was built using the most modern methods of construct...
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Condo boards must follow theses rules in budget preparationSep 21, 2013 12:30 am - It’s budget preparation and adoption time for many condominium boards and homeowner associations. Here are some questions and answers that should help get through the pr...
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Despite predictions, winter can be cozy with airtight ductsSep 21, 2013 12:19 am - The 197-year-old Farmers’ Almanac is a predicting a bitterly cold winter for two-thirds of the country and heavy snowfall in the Midwest, Great Lakes and New England. Wh...
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Is the “too big to fail” problem too big to solve?Sep 21, 2013 12:08 am - There seems to be almost universal consensus that using public funds to protect large institutions from failure, commonly called “bailout,” is bad policy. There is nothi...