While the Charlotte real estate market remains affordable relative to many other U.S. markets, there is growing evidence that many middle class, professional families cannot afford to buy a home.

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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Belk College of Business is launching a master of science in real estate degree program that will begin in August. “In good times and bad, the commercial real estate industry is one of ...

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Alan Banks looks back at 2006 fondly. A principal at Evans Coghill Homes in Charlotte, Banks said the company’s business has been nearly cut in half since a peak in 2006, when it built about 25 homes. This year, ECH ...

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With a glut of distressed properties slowing down the U.S. real estate market, Washington bureaucrats are considering renting out hundreds of thousands of foreclosed, government-owned homes as a last-ditch effort to help the market. On Aug. 10, the Federal Housing ...

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Real estate sales are down in the Charlotte area. So who’s to blame? The downturn in the housing market? The economy? According to some agents and industry watchers, it’s stubborn sellers’ fault. Far from motivated, such homeowners are operating under ...

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Peggy Beck has seen this all before. To Beck, a property owner who lives about a half-mile from the Foxhole landfill on U.S. Route 521, the brouhaha over the possible expansion of the dump gives her déjà vu; she was ...

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With some public schools in the county set to consolidate or close after changes approved this month, many in the public are wondering about the impacts. But the changes, such as shifting popular and high-performing academic programs from one neighborhood ...

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