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.entry-header Washington, D.C. — After being sworn into office today, the administration of President Donald Trump moved to raise Federal Housing Administration, or FHA, premiums for new homebuyers by 25 basis points. This action, which reverses an Obama administration move to lower premiums by 25 basis points, will cost a new homebuyer an additional $500 on their…
pick-uppath/iStock Elizabeth Abel walked up to the front door of her house for the first time in four months and rang the bell. She’d just flown halfway around the world to drop in, unannounced, on the man who’d taken over her home. When he came to the door, Abel says, the man didn’t seem surprised…
Through years of weak economic growth, up-and-down stock markets and miserable returns on cash savings, the housing market has delivered for Canadians by making them wealthier. House prices used to more or less track the inflation rate, which was a feeble 1.5 per cent between 2008 and 2015 because of stunted economic growth. But in cities…
Roughly 41 percent of winners from 48 HPD lotteries between 2013 and 2015, were between the ages of 25 and 34, and 48 percent were single, HPD numbers show.View Full Caption Shutterstock/Leonardo da NEW YORK CITY — Young, single New Yorkers were more likely to win affordable housing lotteries run by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development from 2013…
It’s debate night in America, and darkness has fallen in Atlantic City. The area where Pacific and Virginia Avenues meet — once a bustling intersection swarming with patrons ready to take on the house — is now empty, even eerie. To the west, a seniors home and a jewelry shop with a neon-lit “cash for gold” sign face…
Donald Trump’s Tax Records: A Tale of Business Failures It wasn’t just 1995. Five years of tax information from the 1970s that Donald Trump provided to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety show mismanagement and losses that could have pushed him into personal bankruptcy—but for the largesse of his Dad. The recent…
Real Estate | Renters The Serial Subletter By JOANNE KAUFMANSEPT. 30, 2016 close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Susannah Vila is forever on the move, apartment-wise. Credit Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Susannah Vila lives in a large studio on the parlor floor of a townhouse in the East Village, but who’s to say how long…
Garment District ClosingsView Full Caption GARMENT DISTRICT — A trio of longtime fabric stores on West 39th Street will close by the end of the year — and a fourth will leave its longtime storefront — as Garment District landlords set their sights on higher-paying nightlife tenants, owners and real estate experts said. Paron Fabrics at 257 W. 39th…
inheritedlink: /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160904/REAL_ESTATE/160909960&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&template=rwd& morning10: One World Trade Center sits at the heart of America’s most hallowed ground, a 1,776-foot-tall icon that concretely testifies to the city’s rebirth after Sept. 11, 2001. But as an investment for its owner, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, it has been a bust. Fifteen years after…