The residents of a South Carolina subdivision have pulled the plug on a telecommunications agreement arranged by homebuilder D.R. Horton, but are continuing with a lawsuit alleging unfair trade practices and fiduciary violations. The residents voted to end the agreement ...
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Terwilliger Pappas Multifamily Partners has begun construction on a 275-unit apartment community in Berewick, a large multi-use development in the Steele Creek area. The apartments will be built next to Berewick Town Center’s village green and the community’s shops and ...
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The Charlotte City Council on Monday adopted amendments to its tree ordinance that remove density incentives from single-family developments of less than four lots and 2 acres and that require a tree-save buffer around properties using cluster-subdivision density incentives. Two ...
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For 15 years, some owners of multiple lots in a McDowell County subdivision received breaks on their homeowners’ association dues that weren’t intended for them. Predictably, many of them resisted in 2012 when The Crossing at Sugar Hill’s HOA began ...
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WASHINGTON – Home prices in Charlotte and the U.S. extended their steady upward march in May, spurred by rising sales and a dwindling supply of available houses. The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index increased 5.2 percent ...
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A Davidson man was sentenced June 29 to 27 months in federal prison for his role in a mortgage-fraud conspiracy involving luxury condominiums in Oak Island. Antoine Johnson, 40, was the last of the eight people convicted to be sentenced, ...
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WASHINGTON — Americans snapped up houses in May almost as soon as properties were listed, fueling the strongest sales rate in nearly a decade. Sales of existing homes rose 1.8 percent last month from April to a seasonally adjusted annual ...
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A bank that held a promissory note on a Winston-Salem couple’s home cannot foreclose because the note was not indorsed by the previous holder, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in an unpublished opinion May 10. And while the ...
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The housing recovery has renewed interest in buying and selling real estate, but limited inventory and online sales are taking a bite out of Realtors’ pocketbooks. Realtor headcounts have long followed the ups and downs of the market. National Association ...
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Realtor Linda Hoverman O’Neal was riding high on a busy selling season in March, when she emailed a PDF of a signed contract on a $680,000 Tega Cay waterfront property to the lender, closing coordinator, and seller’s agent. It ...
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