December 31st, 2007
Hours before the year-end deadline, the Kansas Lottery Commission received two more bids for a casino in Wyandotte County. A total of five proposals have been submitted for the casino.
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December 31st, 2007
The Orlando market witnessed a 35 percent decline in November single-family home sales, while condominium sales were down by 55 percent, according to a Florida Association of Realtors report released Monday.
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December 31st, 2007
Allen Tate Realtors has agreed to use LanTrax Inc.'s software to collect, assign and track its Internet leads.
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December 31st, 2007
Lingering inventory continued to affect the housing market in Jacksonville and throughout Florida in November.
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December 31st, 2007
Flagler County has issued a state of local emergency because of beach erosion that threatens several homes in the Painters Hill area.
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December 31st, 2007
Permits for the construction of new homes in the Albuquerque metro area declined nearly 50 percent in November 2007 from one year ago, according to research firm DataTraq.
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December 31st, 2007
The default rate on privately insured mortgages rose in November to the highest level since records have been kept by the Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America, according to a Reuters report Monday.
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December 31st, 2007
Existing-home sales rose slightly in November, a hopeful sign of stabilization in the wake of mortgage disruptions earlier this year, according to the National Association of Realtors, which performed the study.
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December 31st, 2007
New home closings in the Phoenix area dropped 26.9 percent to 3,025 in November compared with the same month last year.
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December 31st, 2007
Less than a month after making its largest acquisition in company history, Metro Development Group added 1,000 single-family home lots to its inventory — taking control of all the land needed for a southern Hillsborough County master planned community.
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