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Buck's DIY “home in a box,” built on three acres she's owned for years, is nearly completed and will cost about half that when all is said and done. And that includes a new septic system that alone cost $25,000. Kimball says Shelter-Kit homes qualify for financing by a typical mortgage lender. However
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Inmates in a Wisconsin prison are helping make lives of veterans a little bit easier. They repaired wheelchairs for vets who went on a tour of Washington DC. Sara Thomsen reports. WEATHER. Bozeman, Livingston, Ennis, Three Forks, Big Sky, West Yellowstone, Belgrade, Twin Bridges, Dillon
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David Robinson, national intermediary sales manager at Accord, said: “We didn't grow massively but we increased our market share and there wouldn't be many lenders who could say that they grew their buy-to-let lending last year. “We still want to continue to focus on buy-to-let even though it's a
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It's getting hot in Dallas, and it isn't even summer yet. The heat is generated by the housing market, as NBC 5 Dallas-Ft. Worth reports: The North Texas housing market is red hot and only expected to get even more competitive this year. The buyers are plentiful, but available houses are limited; often
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JPMorgan Chase, the nation's largest bank by assets and deposits, had a profit of $8.71 billion in the first quarter, a jump of 35 percent from a profit of $6.45 billion in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, JPMorgan earned $2.37 a share, up from $1.65 per share, beating analysts'
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Congress has a sexual harassment problem—and isn't taking it seriously. Why do I say that? Because even after the public has spent the last year watching members of Congress, of both parties, resign after sexual harassment scandals—including cases that involved taxpayer funds—we still couldn't
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BidaskClub downgraded shares of AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research note issued to investors on Thursday. A number of other brokerages also recently issued reports on AGNC. Maxim Group restated a buy rating and issued a $21.25 price target on
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March mortgage applications for new home purchases were stronger than in February but lenders didn't produce as many of them as they did a year ago. New home purchase applications were 14% higher than the previous month, but they were 2.6% lower than they were in March 2017, according to
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Get today's Wall Street Breakfast in podcast form to listen on the go. Today's top stories: Banking earnings are set to provide a welcome boost to the S&P 500; China sees its first trade deficit in over a year; and President Trump is investigating Amazon over US Post Office losses.
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The Buffalo Niagara housing market stayed strong as it heads into the busy springtime home-buying season. It's become a familiar story. Home prices are rising fast because there are more people looking to buy a home than there are homes for sale. That's reflected in the nearly 23 percent plunge in
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Gordon Development II LLC purchased 62,925 industrial square feet at 8644 S. Peoria St., Building 5, in Englewood for $9.64 million from IBC Concord IV LLC. Jason Addlesperger, David Lee and Keith Bell represented the seller. TI Grand Crossings LLC, PDG Denver Design LLC and TGI-Denver
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The average price of a Canadian home sold last month was just over $491,000, a 10 per cent drop in the past year. The Canadian Real Estate Association said Friday that the number of homes sold also plunged, by almost a quarter from the same month a year ago, which was the best March for home
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Ontario's financial regulator in February revoked the license of mortgage brokerage Building Development and Mortgages Canada Inc (BDMC) following an investigation into the sale of syndicated mortgage investments to fund Fortress projects. Fortress' co-founder Vince Petrozza also had his license
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SpaceX is raising $507 million in a funding round that will value Elon Musk's rocket company at $25 billion, according to data from PitchBook. This would make SpaceX one of the most valuable venture-backed private tech companies, behind just Uber and Airbnb. The Information was the first to report
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Photo: James Bombales. After two consecutive sales drops in January and February, industry watchers wondered if March would bring some relief to the rapidly cooling Canadian housing market. And it did — according to data released today by the Canadian Real Estate Association, home sales inched
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It is the perfect storm: Rising home prices, rising mortgage rates and rising demand are colliding with a critical shortage of homes for sale. And all of that is slamming housing affordability, which is causing more of today's buyers to overstretch their budgets. This year, affordability – a metric based solely
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Google's upcoming Gmail redesign could come with security features that ensure only the right person can view an e-mail—and only for a specific period of time. Gmail will reportedly offer a feature that will allow users to set a self-destruction time when the message they send will no longer be viewable
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(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc (C.N) reported a 13 percent increase in quarterly profit on Friday, driven by lower taxes and higher consumer banking … The fourth-biggest U.S. bank by assets said net income rose to $4.62 billion in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with $4.09 billion a year earlier.
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Prudential measures imposed to cool the housing market have succeeded in strengthening lending standards, the Reserve Bank of Australia says. “Concerns about riskier types of new housing borrowing have eased,” the central bank says in its latest financial stability report. “The regulatory limits on
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Five years ago, the Dallas Business Journal recognized Stephen Holley as a 40 Under 40 honoree when he was a vice president in the Dallas office of JLL. But as is the case for many previous honorees, the same ambition that caught the judges' attention can quickly manifest into different career
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