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 Fountaingrove Lodge was supposed to be a haven for gay retirees. But now in the face of local opposition to the project, plans for the upscale Santa Rosa retirement community are on hold. Nick Burns reports.
Publ.Date : Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:33:34 GMT
 There are early signs that the housing market has stabilized. The big question for 2010 is how housing will react after the government begins to move its support away, Nick Timiraos reports.
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:58:14 GMT
 Last year, Baltimore City Hall replaced its traditional flower gardens with vegetable beds to help serve a local soup kitchen. But not all went as planned. Anne Marie Chaker reports on lessons learned and plans for this year's crop.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:47:57 GMT
 Homeowners looking to go 'green' may think that means installing pricey solar panels or wind turbines. But new, efficient showers, faucets and toilets can save thousands of gallons of water a year -- and the cost savings add up. Amy Hoak reports.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:56:46 GMT
 In a signal of consolidation in commercial real estate, Simon Properties has bid to buy fellow mall operator General Growth for about $10 billion. John Spence of MarketWatch discusses.
Publ.Date : Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:49:17 GMT
 A developer has signed a preliminary deal to bring a 600,000-gallon aquarium to a Times Square office building. WSJ's Anton Troianovski has more on the $100 million project.
Publ.Date : Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:14:24 GMT
 Soon you'll be able to watch 3D movies on your television, then use the same TV to communicate with friends via Skype and to adjust your home's thermostat. MarketWatch's Amy Hoak reports on the top home-tech trends on the horizon.
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:46:08 GMT
 With concerns mounting about tap-water purity, there are a slew of new products on the market. About the House columnist Wendy Bounds samples filters for faucets, showers, water bottles and pitchers - and even enlists the help of some thirsty friends to determine which filtered pitcher emerges as the winner of a taste-test.
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:49:24 GMT
 Times have changed, and the square footage of new American homes is dropping. Super-sized homes are out, and efficiency and versatility are in. MarketWatch's Amy Hoak reports on the latest building trends.
Publ.Date : Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:32:55 GMT
 Israeli real estate agents say prices have climbed more than 30%, even as the U.S. and European housing market suffer. WSJ's Martin Himel reports.
Publ.Date : Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:00:58 GMT
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Updated : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:33:09 GMT
Backers said Northwest Florida Beaches International would bring new businesses and residents to the Florida Panhandle; critics said it would also bring environmental problems.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:51:32 GMT
Since 1937 the New York Society Library, which is the oldest cultural institution in New York, has been housed on East 79th Street.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:40:12 GMT
Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz, the founders of MALIN + GOETZ, a unisex skin care company, have decided to buy a farmhouse in the upper Hudson Valley.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:59:01 GMT
The State of New York Mortgage Agency, or Sonyma, is offering 30-year affordable-housing loans at 4.75 percent.
Publ.Date : Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:01:05 GMT
A bedroom door: That?s what Meghan Galewski and James Gonzalez wanted most.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:14:31 GMT
The phone, once a real estate agent?s primary ? well, only ? mode of communication with a client, is making a comeback of sorts in these lean times.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:39:45 GMT
Surrey, a county to the southwest of London, suffered a real estate setback in 2008, after years of steady price increases.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:16:27 GMT
Renters were a godsend when the market went into hibernation. But now that buyers are stirring, some owners wish their tenants would just go away.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:30:57 GMT
A city agency and nonprofit groups build or rehabilitate moderate-income housing, then scrutinize buyers? credit. And they avoid the national foreclosure crisis.
Publ.Date : Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:25:14 GMT
Plots in a low-key mobile-home park of 199 trailer-condos interspersed with a few stick-built shacks in Montauk Shores are available, but the structures cannot be replaced by houses.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:41:55 GMT
Adam Levy lives in a 10-story building that he converted into seven spacious floor-through apartments, including his own duplex penthouse that he finally completed last fall.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:22:13 GMT
Susie Essman has decided to sell the two-bedroom two-bath apartment at the Straus Park Condominium that she uses in New York City.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:59:02 GMT
A cabin in Heber City, Utah, a Gothic revival in Seneca Falls, N.Y., and a condo in Milwaukee.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:16:39 GMT
As of April 21, Mr. Jaccom, 54, will become the chief executive of the tristate hub of Colliers International, a full-service commercial real estate brokerage company.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:41:27 GMT
The Obama administration will offer homeowners $1,500 to sell for less than the mortgage balance.
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:16:16 GMT
Building is stalled as the Port Authority and the developer, Larry A. Silverstein, debated how much government should invest in private development.
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:43 GMT
A look at the strategies of buyers venturing into the market shows Westchester as no longer being in free fall but still poised precariously.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:29:41 GMT
Little more than a week after buying an apartment Arash Yomtobian?s employer, Lehman Brothers, announced plans to declare bankruptcy.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:58:57 GMT
Felipe Rein Acebo-Gomez bought a 1,900-square-foot apartment that came with a three-story 1,300-square-foot casita.
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:54:42 GMT
Vinegar Hill is nudged into a corner of the waterfront that seems, at least in part, forgotten by time.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:37:55 GMT
On 43rd Street off Eighth Avenue is a new seven-story building that offers low-income housing and affordable rehearsal space, which are both in short supply.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:14:26 GMT
Only about 100 of 790 buildings that are eligible for hourly prices have opted for the Con Ed service.
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:40:18 GMT
The new owner of John Lennon and Yoko Ono?s Nutopian Embassy, ?a conceptual country? with no boundaries and ?no laws other than cosmic,? has put it on the market.
Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:33:37 GMT
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