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Could rental houses owned and managed by deep-pocketed hedge funds and big investors be the post-bust steppingstones to homeownership for huge numbers of renters?
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3/18/13
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Gasoline prices in the Ocean State fell 3 cents over the last week, bringing the decline in the last weeks to 7 cents per gallon of self-serve, unleaded regular, AAA Southern New England reported Monday. At $3.76 per gallon, the price of gas stands 1 cent below its level four weeks ago.
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By PBN Staff
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When Kevin Kalmes received a foreclosure notice on her home after being unemployed for more than two years, she said she started selling the contents of her basement, figuring that “I can’t fit all this stuff in a Wal-Mart shopping cart.”
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Bloomberg News
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3/25/13
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Home equity is back! And it’s growing fast: According to the latest data from the Federal Reserve, Americans’ net equity holdings in their houses jumped by nearly half a trillion dollars during the last three months of 2012, and have increased by $1.7 trillion since the spring of 2011.
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3/25/13
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Overall mortgage activity reached a five-year high in Massachusetts in 2012, with refinance mortgages dominating 83 percent of the market share, according to new data from The Warren Group’s Mortgage MarketShare Module.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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Rhode Island export growth is broadening beyond scrap metal.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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House hunters diving into the spring real estate market may encounter something unseen since the giddy days of the subprime bubble: a bidding war.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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An analysis of Rhode Island’s tax data, released Thursday by the R.I. Department of Labor and Training, shows more growth in the state’s private sector employment during the fourth quarter of 2012 than was originally estimated.
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By PBN Staff
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Luke Nichter of Harker Heights, Texas, said he’s not a renter by choice. The Texas A&M University history professor’s $125,000 of student debt means he has no hope of getting a mortgage.
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By Kathleen M. Howley |
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The first two months of 2013 haven’t seen the economic growth that late 2012’s accelerated recovery might have suggested, according to University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro’s Current Conditions Index, released Monday.
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By Rebecca Keister |