Newcomers eye affordable housing
Many established real estate developers may shy away from affordable housing segment due to the low margin. But, this space is receiving a lot of interest from new developers who wish to cash in the rising requirement for housing in urban areas.
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Paddling Home is a 4 x 4 house created by Kacey Wong. This tiny building resembles a typical residential Hong Kong apartment block completed with features such as bay windows, air conditioning unit, and stainless steel gate, etc Like a paddling boat, two paddling oars can be push out from the two walls allowing the [...]
Outside World store to open downtown
The Columbus market has landed a large retailer of canoes, kayaks and other outdoor recreation equipment. And there’s also hope the city can hook one of the biggest mass sellers of hunting and fishing gear in the nation.
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Slow growth at condos: Housing swoon forces three downtown projects to drop prices
Three years ago, Marlene Proulx and her husband downsized homes, selling a spacious house in North Oaks to move into a newly built condo at the Lofts of Stillwater on Main Street.
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Just like the “Ideal Woman” on the cover of this issue on Real Urbanism – a sculpture by the Brooklyn based artist Tony Matelli – most of our cities are shaped by a particular set of values that does not necessarily lead to high quality urban spaces, but instead to scary, ethically unacceptable and distorted [...]
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Task force readies plan on historical structures
KEVIN GREEN Scott Brunner/News-Journal Photo Payton Schaap, 9, left, and friend Meredith Wright, 8, sell lemonade Friday in the 800 block of North Seventh Street in Longview\u2019s Nuggett Hill. The residential area established in the early 1930s is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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H.K. Developers Fall on Government’s Home-Price Curbs
Developers fell in Hong Kong trading after the government tightened mortgage lending rules and said it will increase the supply of land to help cool surging home prices.
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G.O.P. Seizes on Mosque Issue Ahead of Elections
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate’s top Democrat, said that those who plan to erect an Islamic center near ground zero should look elsewhere.
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Evantz “Evans” Saint-Gerard of Contour Mortgage & Dean Graber of NWE Consulting Corp/ Contour Mortgage, host monthly business network functions. Our goal is to develop new mutual business referral relationships in 2010 and beyond. The professionals who generally participate at our events are Realtors, CPAs, Attorneys, Real Estate Developers, Architects, Real Estate Investors, Financial Planners [...]