The South falls again: Home sales, prices down
First-time buyers and investors snapped up low-priced properties last month, but their added interest was not enough to boost sales of previously owned homes in the South, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.
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Hardest-Working Countries
Where do people spend the most time at their jobs?
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No recession at garden centres
Recession be darned, the gardening business isn’t hurting at all as the planting season approaches.
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Tenet won’t renew Louisiana lease
Hospital operator Tenet Healthcare Corp. said Friday that it would not renew its lease for North Shore Regional Medical Center in Slidell, La. (THC)
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Gloomy foreclosure forecast
Mortgage problems expected to drag well into next year
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Lease Cancellations (May 24-30): Stock Building Seeks To Cancel 142 Leases
Stock Building Supply, one of the largest suppliers of building products to professional builders, contractors and other customers in the U.S., is looking to cancel its leases on 142 locations across the country through bankruptcy court action. Stock…
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Sale of Avalon Pharmaceuticals completed
Avalon Pharmaceuticals Inc. no longer exists as an independent company. Its sale to a Massachusetts biotech for $10 million in stock has been completed. (CLDA)
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1010 Park property sold
Part of a failed downtown Minneapolis condo project could get new life as the site of a law or accounting firm now that a local nonprofit has acquired it.
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Market: ‘not bottom, not bottoming’
Commentary: Overborrowing could counteract stimulus
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Tech innovations helping to sell more homes
Often when real-estate agent Karen Fick is showing a house, the prospective buyers will spot another home for sale down the street and wonder about that one.
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