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Home Ownership Rate Falls to 20-Year Low
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Report: Home Remodeling Is Surging
More home owners are sprucing up their properties, which could lift the home improvement business to record levels this year.
Mortgage Rates Up for the First Time This Year
Fixed-rate mortgages reversed course this week, inching up, following weeks of declines.
Squatters Block Detroit’s Big Housing Clean Up
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Inventory Problems Stall Home Sales
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Terwilliger Pappas planning new apartment complex in South End
Apartment development firm Terwilliger Pappas is evaluating a 3.5-acre site at the corner of South Boulevard and Remount Road in Charlotte's South End for a new multifamily complex.
The land at the corner of South and Remount is owned by a limited liability company called Cherokee Southline that is managed by Pappas Properties. Both Terwilliger Pappas and Pappas Properties are headed by developer Peter Pappas.
A Terwilliger Pappas spokesman says the development plans have been accelerated by the…10 Ways to Raise Your Credit Score 100 Points in 2015
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Update: New buyer purchases Coliseum Center on East Independence for $5.8 million
Here's an update to a story I wrote a year ago about Coliseum Center, the largely vacant retail center located on East Independence Boulevard: The downtrodden property has a new owner, but it's not the Texas firm that had it under contract back in February 2014.
Last year, FMOC, a Texas real estate investment firm, was under contract to buy the 218,000-square-foot Coliseum Center property and was planning $15 million in renovations for the center, including a new facade, new roofs, exterior lighting,…Charlotte’s apartment vacancy rate increases to 5.1% in fourth quarter
Charlotte's apartment vacancy rate increased to 5.1% during the fourth quarter, up from 4.9% in the third quarter and 4.6% a year earlier, according to commercial real estate research firm Reis Inc.
It's the first time the local vacancy rate has risen above 5% since the end of 2012, according to the firm's data. At the end of 2012, the local vacancy rate stood at 5.3%, but it dropped below 5% for all of 2013 and through the first three quarters of 2014.
Nationally, the average vacancy rate was…