The caretakers who tend to some of New York’s most splendid manors insist they are far more motivated by the connection to an earlier era than the real estate deal of a lifetime.

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Some signs, like bidding wars and more people at open houses, indicate that the New York City real estate market has turned the corner.

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Buyer Confidence: Portent or Blip?

Washington real estate developers Jeff Epperson and Rick Powell began snapping up land on Howard Road in Anacostia in 2004. It was an aggressive move in the downtrodden neighborhood. The potential, after all, was great. Read full article > >

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St. Elizabeths renovation as security campus faces resistance

Leung Chun-ying, a real estate surveyor who has a reputation as having limited tolerance for public demonstrations, wins on the first ballot.

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Leung Chun-ying Elected as Hong Kong Chief Executive

Whether you’re searching for a home, preparing to sell or just nosy about your neighbors, real estate Web sites include so many new features that they can become addictive. Instead of waiting for an agent to dole out listings on their time schedule, you can search anonymously at midnight, receive e-mail alerts about newly listed homes or open houses, see market and neighborhood reports, map recent home-sale prices, and use apps that display listing details and interior photos of nearby homes. Read full article > >

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House hunters must do their homework about real estate Web sites

Whether you’re searching for a home, preparing to sell or just nosy about your neighbors, real estate Web sites include so many new features that they can become addictive. Instead of waiting for an agent to dole out listings on their time schedule, you can search anonymously at midnight, receive e-mail alerts about newly listed homes or open houses, see market and neighborhood reports, map recent home-sale prices, and use apps that display listing details and interior photos of nearby homes. Read full article > >

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House hunters must do their homework about real estate Web sites

President Obama on Wednesday made his latest pitch to lift the nation’s beleaguered housing market, unveiling a series of proposals to help struggling borrowers reduce their monthly payments and to stem the continuing slide in real estate prices. Read full article > >

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Obama announces new housing refinance plan

The plan for a business improvement district in SoHo would help with the trash problem, but some residents don’t want to cede more ground to tourists and real estate titans.

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Plan for SoHo Business Improvement District Generates Debate

All but the last remnant of the Arab neighborhood known as Little Syria is about to disappear from Lower Manhattan. But several young advocates are determined to save what they can.

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City Room: Trying to Save Remnants of Arab Life in Lower Manhattan

A steady drumbeat of real estate deals, park restorations, reclaimed piers and new esplanades heralds the remaking of Manhattan’s East Side waterfront.

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A Greenway Along the Waterfront Will Beckon From the East

Like other scions of powerful New York real estate families, Jed Walentas will play a powerful role in shaping the city.

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Jed Walentas Has Dumbo on His Mind

To hear Donald Trump tell it, “millions of people” are waiting for him to make an endorsement in the Republican presidential primary. And at some point, he says, he’ll likely grace a candidate with one — that is, unless he decides to run himself as an independent. The real estate mogul and reality TV star, who flirted with seeking the Republican presidential nomination but decided to sit out, says he has a “tremendous following of people who are tired of seeing this country get ripped off.” Read full article > >

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Political endorsements don’t mean a lot — unless you’re Donald Trump

BLACKSBURG — Police are trying to determine why a 22-year-old part-time Radford University student fatally shot a police officer on the campus of nearby Virginia Tech on Thursday afternoon, and then turned the gun on himself. The gunman, identified by police late Friday as Ross Truett Ashley, of Spotsylvania County, had no apparent connection to Tech Police Officer Deriek W. Crouse , 39, who was slain as he sat in his cruiser, police said. A day earlier, authorities said, Ashley is suspected of walking into a real estate office in Radford with a gun, demanding car keys and stealing a white Mercedes SUV. That car was found Thursday on Virginia Tech’s campus. Read full article > >

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Police piece together latest tragedy at Virginia Tech

CHICAGO — A former top fundraiser for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose trial exposed Illinois’ pay-to-play political culture, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 1/2 years in prison. He will get credit for time he has already served. Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a former Chicago real estate developer and fast-food entrepreneur, has been in custody for 3½ years while awaiting sentencing. Read full article > >

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Judge sentences Blagojevich fundraiser Rezko to 10½ years, he will get credit for time served

Owners of New York City condos built under the 421a program are bracing for the day their tax exemptions end, and their now-low monthly real estate taxes surge.

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The 421a Tax Exemption: Don’t Say You Didn’t Know