CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Four communities in the Carolinas, including three on South Carolina’s 190-mile coast, remain among the 20 fastest-growing in the United States, according to new numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Four communities in the Carolinas, including three on the South Carolina coast, are among the fastest-growing areas in the United States. Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday show the Myrtle Beach area, the Charleston ...

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U.S. housing starts rose nearly 19 percent in January when compared with a year earlier, but were down from December, according to data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Groundbreakings for all ...

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Homeownership across the country fell to its lowest rate in nearly 18 years, according to new data by Census Bureau. For the first quarter of the year, the rate of homeownership was 64.8 percent, not taking into account seasonal adjustment. ...

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Charlotte ranks fourth in a list of most affordable cities, according to the consumer website Cheapism, based on its below average cost of living and affordable home prices. The website crunched the numbers using data from Sperling’s Best Places to ...

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January marked a bright spot in the U.S. housing market with sales of new single-family homes leaping to a 5 ½- year high. The Census Bureau said that sales of new homes rose 9.6 percent from December and 2.2 percent ...

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RALEIGH — North Carolina and South Carolina keep growing at a strong clip. The U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday its national and state-by-state population estimates. It projected North Carolina’s population at nearly 9.85 million people as of July 1. That’s an increase of almost 100,000 people compared ...

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CHARLOTTE – Multifamily developers over the past few years have gotten up close and personal with the Millennial generation, studying their wants and needs, and catering to those preferences. The result of that intense attention in Charlotte is thousands of ...

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CHARLOTTE – Julie Porter has spoken to teachers and nurses’ aides who live as far away as Gastonia and Stanly and commute to south Charlotte daily. Porter, the president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Housing Partnership, said they can’t afford housing near ...

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