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Editor’s note: Corrected for date of public hearing and number of lots sold. INDIAN LAND, S.C. – The latest addition to the housing boom in the upper panhandle of Lancaster County is set to come in the form of 172 ...

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James Buchanan Duke – call him Buck – is known as an industrial pioneer. But he didn’t actually pioneer so much as use money to acquire the pioneers and put his name on their work. So we’ll call him instead ...

CHARLOTTE –Derrick Kiker has made a career – actually, three or four careers – of not being pinned down. But Kiker, one of the latest additions to the SouthPark offices of Keller Williams Real Estate, has been pinned a few ...

Charlotte Mayor Dan Clodfelter, a country boy educated at Duke University and in the N.C. Legislature, has a way of making observations that are dead-on true – and, better yet, dead funny. The mayor got in another sly one Monday ...

Tagged with: city council Dan Clodfelter Kenny Smith Ron Carlee

In a consent action Monday night, the Charlotte City Council set a public hearing date of Sept. 22 for the proposed voluntary annexation of the 66.6-acre Trevi Village area, in the 12300 block of North Tryon Street in northeast Mecklenburg ...

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CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte City Council on Monday night awarded two major construction contracts for Blue Line extension projects worth nearly $57 million. Although the two companies qualified as low-bidders, neither vote was unanimous. A $32.1 million contract went to ...

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CHARLOTTE – Assistant City Manager Ron Kimble was smiling as he told the City Council Monday night that negotiations with the Hornets basketball franchise had trimmed a request for $47.8 million in renovations to the city-owned Time Warner Cable Arena ...

Tagged with: Charlotte city council ed driggs Renovations Ron Kimble Time Warner Cable Arena

CHARLOTTE – Time was, there was Brown & Glenn, Berryhill Realty, Dwelle, a handful of others. But if you wanted to rent an apartment or house from the great-great-granddaddy of Charlotte property management firms, you rented from T.R. Lawing. Today ...

Tagged with: North Carolina Real Estate Commission Tommy Lawing

July sales of existing homes across the country rose to their highest annual pace of the year – with the South leading the way – while the ongoing decline in distressed sales reached an important milestone. But a National Association ...

Tagged with: Foreclosure Lawrence Yun National Association of Realtors Short sales

When they were together, Mia Farrow and Woody Allen lived across Central Park from each other; Farrow in that fabulous 11-room Upper West Side apartment seen in “Hannah and Her Sisters,” and Allen and his neuroses in their comfort zone ...