The home remodeling industry is expected to experience slower growth next year after rising during the next three quarters. The annual increase in home-improvement spending is slated to ease to 3.1 percent in the second quarter of next year, down ...
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Ten percent of homes with a mortgage in the Charlotte metro area were seriously underwater in the third quarter of this year, according to a RealtyTrac analysis. The company counts properties as being seriously underwater when homes have a loan-to-value ...
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Lennar Carolinas LLC hopes to develop an age-restrictive residential development on a 622-acre former children’s camp that failed to come to fruition for developer Mattamy Homes earlier this year. The development at 9070 Van Wyck Road, about 2 miles southwest ...
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Editor’s Note: Corrected to accurately reflect proposed development by Walton South Carolina LLC, and comments made by company representatives at the meeting. The York County Council unanimously deferred a decision to amend its Lake Wylie Overlay ordinance for 30 days ...
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A group of condominium owners in western North Carolina will be able to sue the companies that built and developed their condos after the N.C. Court of Appeals overturned a Superior Court ruling dismissing the suit on procedural grounds. The ...
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Historic Charlotte presented preservation awards to several local residential and commercial properties at its 14th Annual Blast for the Past event at Oct. 15 at the Charlotte Museum of History. Winning projects were based on several factors, including the property’s ...
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Charlotte area foreclosures were up in the third quarter compared to the second quarter – as well as the third quarter of 2013, according to RealtyTrac. In monthly comparisons, the number of homes in some stage of foreclosure was down ...
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Hilton Worldwide announced a new hotel brand on Oct. 15 called Canopy, and one of the first 11 of these hotels will be in Charlotte. Levine Properties will be Hilton’s local partner for the project, and the hotel will be ...
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CHARLOTTE – Mecklenburg County’s housing market is better off than it was two years ago, according to RealtyTrac’s 2014 Election Housing Scorecard. The report scored 1,547 U.S. county housing markets based on five factors: housing affordability, unemployment rates, foreclosure starts ...
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Tension between York County residents and Canadian developer Mattamy Homes has increased since the County Council proposed an amendment to the county’s Lake Wylie Overlay ordinance in early September. Residents brought up the possibility of a graveyard blocking construction. The ...
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