One path to affordable housing: You own the house, but a trust owns the land
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Land trusts encourage affordable urban housing, where surging prices have outpaced moderate incomes.
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The American fetish for homeownership can lead to some perverted outcomes.
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By Cecily Burt  OAKLAND -- Whether luxury view homes eventually dot the ridges at Oak Knoll is a question for another day.
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You may not have to pay as much as you're paying to protect your home.
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Hereâs one way to deal with home prices that remain stubbornly high despite the recent downturn: Buy your second home first.
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Is a homeowners' association looking over shoulder?
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By Gina Macris; Journal Staff Writer  The former industrial complex's eligibility for historic preservation tax credits could pave the way for affordable housing.
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Under the measure, property owners who can prove that environmental or zoning rules have hurt their investments can force the government to compensate them.
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By St. Louis Daily Record Staff  Use of eminent domain by communities has been controversial, particularly when it's done to benefit development plans by private companies.  In June of last year, the U.S.
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There's an anxious face-off between sellers and buyers of homes as expectations of big profits fade
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Real estate, like politics, is local. In a year when the median price of a single-family home in Massachusetts fell nearly 6 percent -- the biggest drop in a decade -- what you paid depended on where you shopped.
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The valuation is dirt cheap, but can it perform?
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For a long time, Paul and Amy Woodhull's house on Capitol Hill was a honey pot. Through multiple refinancings over nearly a decade, they pulled out money to fix it up, buy a car, pay down credit cards, buy three other properties and improve them, too.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide when governments may seize people's homes and businesses for economic development projects, a key question as cash-strapped cities seek ways to generate tax revenue.    At issue is the scope of the Fifth Amendment, which allows governments to take private property through eminent domain, provided the owner is given "just compensation" and the land is for "public use."   Susette Kelo and several other homeowners in a working-class neighborhood in New London, Conn., filed a lawsuit after city officials announced plans to raze their homes to clear the way for a riverfront hotel, health club and offices...
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If location is the golden rule of real estate, then many who invest in real estate mutual funds might at times feel as if they've stumbled upon a great deal in the fanciest building in town.
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Of 50 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico, Hawaiâi is the eighth least-likely place to find &quot;affordable&quot; housing. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition&#39;s annual &quot;Out
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SEATTLE -- Libertarians and land developers have found populist fodder in a contentious Supreme Court decision from last year that favors eminent domain over private property.