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LendingTree chooses West Coast for marketing HQs (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 22,2012

LendingTree today opened its marketing headquarters in Burlingame, Calif., choosing the West Coast city over Charlotte, where the company is headquartered.


U.S. housing affordability index hits record high (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 22,2012

Housing affordability in the U.S. rose to a record level in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index.


Norfolk Southern puts the brakes on Red Line talks (access required)

By Scott Baughman, staff writer
Published: February 22,2012

Norfolk Southern officials made it absolutely clear Tuesday that there would be no Red Line commuter-rail service on its O line track in Mecklenburg County under current plans.


System failure (access required)

By Scott Baughman, staff writer
Published: February 21,2012

MERS was supposed to make it faster and simpler to buy and sell mortgages. But in a world where foreclosures have become commonplace in headlines, MERS has made life more complicated for banks and lenders as they try and prove who owns what.


Striking out (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: February 20,2012

Construction hasn’t even begun on the proposed 25-field, $20 million America’s Park. No one has even announced an exact date on which construction will begin, and the project’s expected completion has already been pushed back at least once. Indeed, America’s Park has been besieged by curveball after curveball.


Foreclosure 
activity edges 
higher in 
January (access required)

By The Associated Press
Published: February 20,2012

Banks took back more U.S. homes in January than in the previous month, the latest sign that foreclosures are accelerating after slowing sharply last year while lenders sorted out foreclosure-abuse claims.


Property owners could face higher fees (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: February 20,2012

Water bills might be rising soon for residential and commercial property owners in Mecklenburg County, but commercial property owners would take the biggest hit.


Mecklenburg County could buy homes for $2 (access required)

By Scott Baughman, staff writer
Published: February 20,2012

For less than it costs for a latte at Starbucks, Mecklenburg County could buy two houses from Judy Su.


Homebuilders group sees pickup in 
housing this year (access required)

By The Associated Press
Published: February 16,2012

The U.S. housing market will begin to mount a turnaround this year, building toward a solid recovery in 2013, according to a forecast by the chief economist of a homebuilding industry trade group.


Interior motives  (access required)

By Scott Baughman, staff writer
Published: February 16,2012

In October of 2010, Marcyne Touchton’s phone stopped ringing. “I didn’t know what was going on,” said Touchton, founder of Charlotte-based home-staging company Domaine Staging. What was going on was the Great Recession; Domaine was feeling the effects of the plummeting real estate market.