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Real estate giant Realogy relocates headquarters to Madison – The Star-Ledger

Courtesy The Hampshire CompaniesAn artist’s rendering of the Realogy Corp.’s future headquarters at 175 Park Ave. in Madison. Realogy Corp., which owns real estate firms Coldwell Banker, Century 21 and ERA, will relocate its corporate headquarters from Parsippany to a Madison site seven miles away, the company announced yesterday. Realogy’s current lease expires in 2013, [...]

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Affordable housing plan faces final hurdles

Email Print Aa Tweet Originally published: November 28, 2011 7:50 PM Updated: November 28, 2011 9:19 PM By JENNIFER BARRIOS  jennifer.barrios@newsday.com A long-delayed affordable-housing development in East Northport is now poised before one of its final hurdles. Greenlawn-based nonprofit Housing Help Inc. appeared before Suffolk County this month seeking a variance for its Matinecock Court [...]

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Housing goes south: The new housing policy is unlikely to result in desired …

Living on North Campus is about to get a lot harder for incoming freshmen thanks to changes in UNC’s housing assignment policy, which are designed to attract more upperclassmen to on-campus living and enhance the freshman experience. But, in effect, these changes have only injected additional confusion into the housing process and hold little promise [...]

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New home sales rose last month, but prices fell

WASHINGTON • Americans bought slightly more new homes in October, a hopeful sign for the troubled housing market. But the median sales price fell to its lowest level of the year, and the overall sales pace is trailing last year’s — the worst in half a century. The report suggests that housing is a long [...]

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Real-Estate Risks Overshadow China’s Economic Prospects, OECD Report Shows

Enlarge image Property Risks ‘Overshadow’ China Outlook, OECD Says Nelson Ching/Bloomberg Construction takes place on a property development in Beijing, China. Construction takes place on a property development in Beijing, China. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) — Ronald Wan, managing director at China Merchants Securities Co., talks about the impact of Europe’s debt crisis [...]

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Kokomo Named Second Most Affordable Housing Market

Photo: OZinOH (Flickr) Kokomo has maintained a relatively stable housing market over the past decade, according to realtors. Kokomo has been named the second most affordable housing market in the U.S., according to the National Association of Home Builders. Nearly 97 percent of homes sold in Kokomo from July to September of this year were [...]

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New Home Sales in U.S. Uptick 1.3% in October

According to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), sales of new single-family houses in October 2011 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 307,000. This is 1.3 percent (±19.7%) above the revised September rate of 303,000 and is 8.9 percent (±17.2%) above the October 2010 estimate of [...]

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