Just Like the Weather, New-Home Prices Are Beginning to Heat Up

It's not just the weather that's heating up as we move into spring. The cost of a newly constructed home is rising as the housing market enters its peak buying months. The median price of a new home climbed to $337,200 in March, according to a joint report by the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S.
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In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, McCormick Media investors said they agreed to buy Ferro's 25.7 percent stake in Tronc because it … Collier is the great-great-grandson of Leander McCormick who, with his brother, Cyrus, was a co-founder of International Harvester.
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Canadian National is looking to sell “primarily real estate,” Ruest said Tuesday in an interview in Toronto after the company's annual meeting. “They're good real estate assets but they don't generate revenue carloads, they don't move freight. So we take that money, cash it out, and deploy it out west
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We've been serving Agribusiness since 1857, so we understand the complexity and volatility of your industry. First National Bank of Omaha will continue to support the future generations of agriculture in a spirit of innovation with broad financial capabilities to move your business forward.
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Simon Greenstone Panatier PC is defying long-standing real estate trends with plans to move its Dallas office from Uptown to downtown. The trial law firm is relocating in August from the One McKinney tower in Uptown to the 34th floor of Renaissance Tower in downtown. Its new space encompasses
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You've heard this before: Stocks, over time, outperform real estate. There are many schools of thought on this but one common statistic that gets tossed around shows equities over the past several decades have returned an average upwards of 10% a year, while real estate is in the 4% ballpark.
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“It's a great feeling to be able to pay off all the construction financing and move into permanent funding,” said Legacy West developer Fehmi Karahan. Karahan said that MetLife was one of the few long-term mortgage providers that could finance such a large transaction. MetLife is also a big investor in
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The problems started when TSB migrated to a new banking platform, which involved taking its digital services offline over the weekend. When customers logged back in on Sunday evening, some reported being able to see other people's accounts. TSB took down its services until 2am on Monday to fix
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CHICAGO, April 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Crowe Horwath LLP, a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world, was named one of Fortune's 20 Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services for the second time. The list is based on feedback from more than
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Private equity (PE) investments into the country's real estate sector declined by 19 per cent year on year in financial year 2017-18, said a report. The decline in PE investment could reflect turbulence in the real estate sector, property consultancy Knight Frank said in its report. “But going by the investment
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Abnormally cold weather combined with an early Easter holiday dampened U.S. housing demand in March, according to a Redfin report Tuesday. The Redfin Housing Demand Index, on the analysis of buyers' housing tours and offers made in 15 metro areas, fell 3.8% to 105 year-over-year in March.
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The co-working space company backed by SoftBank Group Corp. joins a wave of high-flying, but cash-burning, tech firms tapping debt markets just as interest rates start to creep higher. Uber Technologies Inc. in March sought a loan even while burning through cash and posting an annual loss.
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Revenues associated with our title operations are recognized as closing services are rendered and title insurance policies are issued, both of which generally occur as each home is closed. Insurance brokerage commissions relate to commissions on homeowner and other insurance policies placed with
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Last year world production amounted to approximately 1.7 million tons of blueberries, two and a half times the amount achieved in 2000, according to the consultancy fresh4cast.com. The figure should reach 2 million tons in two years. The United States is the largest producer of blueberries, followed by
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The bank split from Lloyds Banking Group in 2013 and was sold to Sabadell in 2015 for £1.7bn. But the shift has caused on-going internet and mobile banking outages, as well failures of in-branch services, not to mention customers inadvertently accessing the accounts of other TSB users. Now chair of
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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at the White House about meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. (Source: Bloomberg). RELATED ARTICLES. Trump Praises North Korea's Kim as 'Very Honorable' · Terms of Service Trademarks Privacy Policy ©2018 Bloomberg L.P. All Rights
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Scoring a double in backing the competition is Toomebridge company Creagh Concrete, manufacturers and suppliers of an extensive range of concrete products, who kicked off their support last year. Seamus McKeague, co-founder of Creagh Concrete, said “We are delighted to be involved with
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One of the world's largest developers and institutional landlords is set to pour up to $300 million into”disruptive” technology. Brookfield Asset Management, under the new venture capital unit called Brookfield Ventures, will put up between $200 million and $300 million into four divisions: real estate,
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… Chinese government in turn proposed its own tariffs on U.S. goods, targeting agriculture and other exports from rural and Midwest areas important to Trump's election. But the administration has indicated it's willing to negotiate with China and avert a trade war, a prospect that's rattled financial markets.
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