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The Nature Conservancy announced the acquisition of over 500 acres of land on Sodus Bay last week, thanks to a $1 million grant from the North American Wetland Conservation Act and $200,000 in donations from individual and corporate conservationists. The ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans bought slightly more new homes in November, but 2011 will likely end up as the worst year for sales in history. The Commerce Department says new-home sales rose 1.6 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted ...

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Bob Malone of Nothnagle Realtors was honored Monday by the Monroe County Legislature with a proclamation recognizing his achievement as Realtor of the Year. Malone received the Realtor of the Year distinction in October from the Greater Rochester Association of ...

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The Citizens Bank Foundation has donated $125,000 to six affordable housing community partners serving the Buffalo and Rochester regions, Capital Region, Hudson Valley and Long Island. The money will be used for fuel savings, green building and home energy and ...

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ALBANY — The state can require companies to return polluted Superfund sites to pre-industrial conditions, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in a win for environmentalists. The court said the state Department of Environmental Conservation may require polluters ...

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Finding a new place to live is easier for consumers who can now browse apartments on their smart phones. Apartment Finder/ApartmentFinder.com has launched a free Android app to make looking through photos, maps and more information a better experience for ...

Housing prices aren’t evaporating everywhere. The average pied-a-terre in bustling Delhi, India, will now cost you 22 percent more than it did a year ago. That’s according to the just-released third quarter stats from UK-based Global Property Guide, which tracks ...

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The city of Rochester has begun mailing 2012 re-assessment letters to city property owners. The mailing will continue through the end of December. The re-assessment is an update to the assessments that were established during the 2008 re-assessment. The 2012 ...

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Over 30 percent of contracted home sales nationwide don’t make it all the way to closing, the National Association of Realtors reported last month. Lender-ordered appraisals of short sale and foreclosed homes are often mentioned as a common cause, but ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices are falling again in most major cities after posting small gains over the summer and spring, the latest evidence that the troubled housing market won’t recover any time soon. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index released ...

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The removal of Amherst-based Steven J. Baum PC from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac foreclosure cases means other firms will be picking up the work. Baum’s firm handled a large portion of the state’s foreclosure cases, and experts predict more ...

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ALBANY — The New York State Court of Appeals on Tuesday cleared the Attorney General’s Office to pursue allegations that First American Corp. and its former subsidiary eAppraiseIT, inflated property appraisals under pressure from client Washington Mutual. Then-Attorney General Andrew ...

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