If You're Shopping for a House in This City, Beware of Photoshopped Sunshine

In 2017, Seattle set new records for both October to April rainfall and median home prices. If you browsed through the local real estate listings, however, you might get the impression that the city synonymous with Pearl Jam and precipitation is, in fact, a sunny oasis. It's no secret that online listings
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Job Description:The Consumer Banking Market Manager will manage a team comprised of field based Relationship Managers. The leader will drive local strategies and tactics that drive Client Experience, …
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… on the impacts of the new tax law but that it expects them to be manageable. The company has about $3 billion of bonds maturing this year, and another $4.35 billion in 2019, not to mention the more than $2 billion of loans coming due over that period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Each day it seems that there is another story about sexual misconduct. From last year's story that SoFi's now-former CEO Mike Cagney and his wife June Ou both stepped down from the company following sexual harassment allegations against Cagney, to today's report in the Wall Street Journal about
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The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for 3 percent. Consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy, rose 3.8 percent, the best in more than a year. Business equipment investment grew at the fastest pace in three years. While the report dashed expectations for the longest streak of 3
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Despite continued signs of strong economic performance, Beijing is not letting its guard down regarding risk in the financial system. Risk in China's banking industry on the whole is under control, the country's banking regulator said in statement late Friday, but the situation is still “serious and complicated
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The housing market has come a long way from the bust of the late '00s, when people learned hard, sometimes disastrous lessons about home value and equity and how close to disaster a housing bubble can bring the entire economy. Since then, the market — and homeowners — have tread through
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Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (FBHS) fell -0.89% with the finishing price of $72.48 in Thursday Trading Session. With Latest reduction move, stock price showed -1.55% down in value from one year high price and revealed 32.70% up in value from its one year low price. In the recent week
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A big data dump from Trulia, supplemented by helpful analysis, helps make sense of the U.S. rental market.
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Pioneer Vancouver real estate salesman H.A. Jones (hatless on stump, left) poses with other early realtors on top of an old stump on Granville Street, 1886. The men in the photograph are, from left to right on ground: Edwin Sanders, A.W. Ross, Dr. Fort, J.W. Horne, Mr. Hendrickson, and U.S. Consul Mr.
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Simplifile has added 23 additional recording jurisdictions throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast to its eRecording platform, the company announced. With the latest additions, Simplifile's eRecording network includes 1,715 jurisdictions, which the company said encompasses 97 percent of
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Cecile Richards, the CEO and president of Planned Parenthood, will step down from the organization this year. Her plans to leave the post were first reported by Buzzfeed on Wednesday. “To all of you who count on Planned Parenthood, know that this organization will be here for you no matter where
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Starbucks Corp. Chairman Howard Schultz said he believes digital currency will catch on with consumers, though not necessarily Bitcoin. Schultz said that Starbucks, an early adopter of smartphone payments, is positioned to take advantage in coming years as cryptocurrency — and its underlying
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Readers of Brainstorm Health Daily—and of Fortune on the whole (which I hope you all are…)—know that we have chronicled a deeply important movement in the corporate world: an effort to do well while doing good. Each year, we highlight 50 big companies and a bunch of up-and-coming ones who
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Oaktree Specialty Lending logo Oaktree Specialty Lending (NASDAQ:OCSL)'s stock had its “hold” rating restated by equities research analysts at BMO Capital Markets in a research note issued to investors on Monday, January 8th. They presently have a $5.00 target price on the credit services
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When spoken aloud, the number sounds like the phrase “I want to be wealthy,” which could make 2018 a lucky year for real estate deals — and some brokers have already seen that in action. Sign up for China Watch for weekly emails on Chinese real estate investments. Corcoran Group agent Janet
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A new study shows it is one of the best places to get a mortgage in Texas, good news for aspiring homeowners. Wichita County ranks third in the Lone Star State in this year's Best Mortgage Markets Index from SmartAsset, a financial technology company. “I think we're just really extra competitive on our
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The company said it had now received the go-ahead from its South African lenders to move €200m of funding from its African subsidiaries to prop up its fragile European arm, a week after the Stellenbosch-based group said it had secured approval from banks to move €60m as a stop-gap measure.
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The coalition is launching an effort called “Mayors & CEOs for U.S. Housing Investment,” which the group bills as a “first-of-its-kind coalition of local government and business leaders collaborating to advance public-private partnerships that tackle affordable housing and homelessness and actively
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China builds a bigger watchdog | Beijing is considering a merger of its banking and insurance regulators as Chinese President Xi Jinping seeks to pay down his country's $28 trillion debt pile, Bloomberg News reports. Word of the move comes days after one of China's top financial officials, Liu He,
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