|
Rhode Island’s single-family home sales rose slightly – 0.5 percent – during the first quarter of 2013, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors said Tuesday.
more
By PBN Staff
|
|
Grow Smart Rhode Island – a nonprofit that advocates for sustainable economic growth in the Ocean State – will honor individuals, plans and projects that play to Rhode Island’s strengths, generate sustainable economic benefits and improve the state’s communities and neighborhoods at its second annual awards gala in June.
more
By PBN Staff
|
|
April foreclosure starts in the Providence-Fall River-New Bedford metropolitan area dropped 7.8 percent, and completed foreclosures fell 32.5 percent compared with the same period last year, according to RealtyTrac’s latest report.
more
By PBN Staff
|
|
Plans to turn a former chocolate factory in Mansfield into condominiums have been halted after local voters Tuesday rejected an article that would have rezoned the building for residential use, reported Attleboro’s Sun Chronicle.
more
By PBN Staff
|
|
Confidence among U.S. homebuilders improved in May for the first time in five months as buyers rush to take advantage of near record-low mortgage rates.
more
By Lorraine Woellert |
|
Developers abandoned $29.4 million in Rhode Island historic tax credits last month by failing to make progress on six approved projects, the R.I. Division of Taxation said Monday.
more
By Patrick Anderson |
|
As real estate projects, the HP Pavilion arena in San Jose, Calif., and the George C. Arnold Building on Washington Street in Providence are worlds apart.
more
By Patrick Anderson |
|
Sales of previously owned U.S. homes climbed in April to the highest level in more than three years even as the market remained constrained by a lack of inventory and strict borrowing rules.
more
By Lorraine Woellert |
|
Building Futures, a program of The Providence Plan, was named the 2013 winner of the Governor’s Workforce Board’s Innovation Award.
more
By PBN Staff
|
|
The U.S. economy will continue to recover until at least 2015 without tumbling into a recession, achieving the sustained growth that has eluded it since the last slump ended four years ago, according to a Bloomberg poll.
more
By David J. Lynch |