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Zach Protzko says he doesn’t have any experience in the publishing world, and he’s never held a job with a newspaper or magazine. But that isn’t stopping the commercial real estate agent with KW Commercial in Mooresville from throwing his hat into the ring to run one of the best-known publications in the world: The New York Times.

From turquoise carpeting to koi, Charlotte-area agents and homebuilders have seen some peculiar items that buyers told sellers they just couldn’t live without.

Here are five of the most common reasons that short sales don't succeed.

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With more short sales taking place, Charlotte-area real estate agents have learned how complicated those deals can be. Agents say the paperwork needs to be pristine, and clients must be willing to be honest with lenders, or a short sale won’t succeed.

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Katie Tyler, owner and founder of Tyler 2 Construction, had always been proud that she was able to keep her business and personal lives separate, never taking the company home with her. Then came the Great Recession,

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The mortgage settlement that government officials announced Thursday is intended to help victims of foreclosure abuses that followed the housing bust. Here's a look at what the settlement will and won't do for current and former homeowners.

It’s about to get harder for brokers in North Carolina to go south. On March 1, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission will end “mirror reciprocity” for broker’s licenses with South Carolina and nine other states.

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It’s getting costlier to live in an apartment in Charlotte, much to the disappointment of renters. But the multifamily industry claims that even with the hikes, rates are only now returning to prerecession levels.

Balfour Beatty celebrated the topping out of the future SPX headquarters Tuesday in Ballantyne Corporate Park. The nine-story Class A office building, which is owned by Charlotte-based The Bissell Co., includes 230,000 square feet of space and a four-story, 640-space parking garage. LS3P, an architectural firm founded in Charleston, S.C., with an office in Charlotte, designed the building.

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Last year, when Bank of America and Wells Fargo announced they were getting out of the reverse mortgage business, Greg Eaddy wondered whether his business as a personal 
financial planner might get a boost. Turns out, not really.