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Real Estate Lists Grow Comfortable With the Web

E-Commerce Report : By BOB TEDESCHI
AS if home buyers do not have it good enough already, finding a house for sale on the Web is becoming easier.
The triple threat of a weak market, legal pressure and increasing competition has compelled real estate professionals to offer their information more freely online, putting cracks in a walled […]

How to Jointly Own a Home and Still Be Friends

your money : By HILLARY CHURA
REAL estates prices have fallen almost everywhere. Interest rates have declined. It would seem a good time — at least for those who resisted the temptations of easy credit in the last few years — to buy a vacation home.
But lenders have toughened the rules on mortgages, making second-home purchases […]

Despite Housing Slide, Real Estate Sites Sell

E-Commerce Report

By BOB TEDESCHI

TALK about an uh-oh moment.
It was late October, and Redfin, an online real estate brokerage firm based in Seattle, had received just three months earlier a $12 million investment led by the marquee venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. In the interim, the mortgage industry melted down, foreclosures spiked and […]

Bush to Offer Stimulus Plan; Tax Rebates Expected

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS

WASHINGTON — President Bush plans to outline the basic principles of a proposed package of emergency economic measures just before noon on Friday, in an effort to restore the eroding confidence of investors and consumers. The package is expected to include more than $100 billion in one-time tax rebates for individuals […]

St. Paul Stops a Waterfront Developer From Crossing the Mississippi

By
LISA CHAMBERLAIN

ST. PAUL — As manufacturing declined across the country, cities from Baltimore to San Francisco have reclaimed waterfronts for recreation and development. But here along the Mississippi River, an unusual situation has emerged.

A well-known local developer, proposing the largest project in St. Paul’s history, has been prevented by the city itself, with the […]

In England, a Renovated Estate

By LINDA GANNELL
WARWICK-ON-EDEN, England
Birds sang in the drawing room of Val Marriner’s home, Warwick Hall in Cumbria, but they were not coming from the garden. It was the sounds of Mrs. Marriner’s cellphone ring providing the idyllic touch.

An American from Worcester, Mass., Mrs. Marriner bought Warwick Hall in 1998 with her second husband, Nick, […]

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