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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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