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The Providence-Fall River-New Bedford area foreclosure rate dropped 0.33 percentage points in October compared with the same period last year, CoreLogic said Thursday.
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By PBN Staff
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Builders in November capped the strongest three months for residential construction in four years and permits climbed as record-low borrowing costs buoyed the U.S. housing market.
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By Lorraine Woellert |
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Picerne Military Housing, a division of the Corvias Group, has closed a $72 million public-private partnership deal with the U.S. Army to build on-post barracks.
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By PBN Staff
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What would happen to home values in the event that popular real estate deductions for mortgage interest and local property taxes were cut significantly? It’s an issue you’re likely to hear more about as Congress and the Obama administration wade deeper into “fiscal cliff” and comprehensive tax reform negotiations heading into 2013.
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12/10/12
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The executive vice president of commercial lending at BankNewport talks about the effects of low interest rates on residential lending.
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By Rhonda Miller |
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Bristol County, Mass., foreclosure starts rose 16.4 percent in October compared with the same period last year. At the same time, the number of completed foreclosures fell, The Warren Group said Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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If planners and architects had their way, when people start building large residential projects again they would look something like the
By Patrick Anderson |
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You may have seen headlines last week about the Federal Housing Administration needing a taxpayer “bailout” by the Treasury and wondered: Uh oh. Is the FHA heading down the fiscal drain like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have required billions in federal assistance just to stay in business?
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12/3/12
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At a time when small and simple are fashionable, the owner of the
By Patrick Anderson |
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With the House and Senate back on Capitol Hill for the lame-duck session, preliminary negotiations aimed at keeping the country from careening off the “fiscal cliff” began in earnest this past week.
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11/26/12
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