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Joan Inglis, owner of Carolina Spaces LLC, has won The Barb Schwarz Accredited Staging Professional Master Excellence Award. “I am extremely honored to have been personally selected for this recognition,” said Inglis. Inglis is a master home stager, model home ...

The Charlotte office of LS3P has announced the hiring of three employees. Chelsea Sacks and Farah Kresack have joined the firm as intern architects and Debra Wysocki joins as an Interior Designer. Sacks earned a master’s degree in architecture from ...

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Showcase Realty has been selected for the 2014 Inner City 100, a list of the nation’s fastest-growing inner city businesses compiled by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune. The real estate company, based in Charlotte’s South End, ...

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Allie Thomas has joined Wilkinson ERA as director of business development, a newly created position for the real estate group. Thomas will be responsible for business development for the Relocation and Corporate Services Division for Wilkinson ERA, offering assistance to companies ...

The first-mortgage default rate rose for the third consecutive month in October, to 0.96 percent, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices. The second-mortgage default rate, however, declined to 0.47 percent. The national composite consumer credit default ...

ROCK HILL, S.C. – Rock Hill Economic Development Corp. hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on Nov. 18 for a spec building being constructed in Waterford Business Park, at 2853 Dave Lyle Blvd. Cope Construction is the contractor on the 40,000-square-foot building, ...

The number of construction jobs in North Carolina in October increased 4.2 percent compared with a year ago and 0.6 percent over September, according to the Associated General Contractors of America. The ACGA reported that there were 180,500 construction jobs ...

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FORT MILL, S.C. – M/I Homes has begun development of Sutton Mill, a community of ranch and two-story homes on 93 lots in northern York County, just over the South Carolina line.  Presales are expected to start in early 2015. ...

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Caution among lenders was seen as the biggest barrier to homeowners finding financing for remodeling projects, according to the results of a survey by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. Thirty-eight percent said financers were being “overly cautious,” according ...

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CHARLOTTE – Attorney Jim Slaughter of Rossabi Black Slaughter will talk about “Hot Legal Topics in Community Management” at the N.C. Chapter of the Community Associations Institute at its meeting from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Dec. 3. The program will ...

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