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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 ...
Read More »Report: Good year ahead for commercial real estate
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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Read More »The Cabot Group selected to market space
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 ...
Read More »Space Coast tops list of best foreclosure deals
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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Read More »US home prices accelerate in November
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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Read More »Tight inventory slows US pending home sales
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 ...
Read More »Can Asheville’s plan work in Rochester?
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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Read More »City seeks developer for Pulaski Library re-use project
The city of Rochester has issued a Request for Proposals for the sale and redevelopment of the former Pulaski Library building, 1151 Hudson Ave. “For more than 60 years, the Pulaski Library building provided the community with a place to ...
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Read More »City residents want more retail downtown
As Midtown redevelopment goes, so goes the big-picture resurgence of downtown Rochester, as conventional thinking goes. When it comes to daily city life, it’s the little things that matter. And sometimes it’s easier to crack the DaVinci Code than to ...
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Read More »Migration study: Northeast still losing people
ST. LOUIS — The 36th annual United Van Lines migration study is out, and the northeastern U.S. is once again seeing the most outbound movement. The St. Louis-based moving company tracks the states its customers move to and from over ...
Read More »Property owners challenge city on inspections
The city of Buffalo wants to inspect the interiors of homes whose owners are challenging their assessments. It claims it cannot get a true appraisal of the homes without looking inside, but the homeowners say that violates their Fourth Amendment ...
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Read More »Historic building tax credit extended
The “fiscal cliff” deal reached Jan. 1 also will mean a two-year extension of a program that aids the restoration of historic buildings in urban areas. The New Markets Tax Credit is an incentive for developers to renovate underused historic ...
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