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Monroe Community College has been looking to move from its “temporary” downtown home at the Sibley Building for 20 years, and three years since a search was renewed in earnest. Now, assuming no major snags in negotiations and funding, the ...

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As with all things real estate, the best deal comes down to location, location, location. And so it is with foreclosure purchases. Rochester is ranked second among the 20 best places to buy foreclosures this year, a prediction based on ...

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Can there be life for the Sibley Building after Monroe Community College? Yes, say Mayor Thomas S. Richards and Gilbert Winn, managing principal of the Massachusetts-based Winn-Companies that owns the building. But Winn is clinging to a puncher’s chance that ...

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The Cabot Group has been contracted by The Pike Development Co. to act as the exclusive leasing agent for 30,000 square feet of Class A office space on the top floor of the Seneca Building at the Midtown Rising site. ...

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One of the first orders of business for developer Gilbert Winn was redoing a five-story staircase used by Monroe Community College students that was “in shambles.” Renovating the 12-story Sibley Building will continue as the historic structure’s new owner attempts ...

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The home at 39 Lark St. in Rochester was purchased for $14,000 at a tax foreclosure auction last July. The single-family home was in bad shape, requiring asbestos and lead paint abatement, as well as general repair work necessary for ...

Generally speaking, the glass is half full when it comes to the commercial real estate market in Rochester and suburbs for 2013. The optimism comes from the anticipated completion of several major developments in Rochester, as well as encouraging signs ...

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The Cabot Group has been selected to lease and market available space at Sydor Instruments LLC, a high-tech office and flex space at 291 Millstead Way, next to the Greater Rochester International Airport. The available 5,500 square feet of office/flex ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s Space Coast is No. 1 in the nation for the best foreclosure deals. A study released Thursday by the firm RealtyTrac says the area around the Kennedy Space Center was best in the nation for getting ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices accelerated in November compared with a year ago, pushed higher by rising sales and a tighter supply of available homes. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 5.5 percent in November compared with ...

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WASHINGTON — A measure of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes fell last month after reaching a 2 ½-year high in November. Sales were held back by a limited supply of available homes. The National Association of Realtors said ...

Once a thriving city in the Smoky Mountains, Asheville, N.C., went through a decades-long downturn. High debt and mistakes in government all seemed to be in the past when the opportunity to build highways came to pass in the mid-1970s. ...

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