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Columnist Nancy Keates planned to replace her aging cottage with a custom-built home for about $800,000, but now faces a $1.6 million bill. She examines her expenditures with the hopes of cutting the price.
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Consumers seeking financial relief are receiving assistance only after missing loan payments. But defaulting brings all kinds of headaches.
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As oil prices surge to new records House and Senate lawmakers are trying to raise states' emergency fuel funds to $431 million.
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Some lenders are concerned an effort in Washington to help homeowners avoid foreclosure could lead lawmakers to scale back bankruptcy overhauls adopted two years ago.
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People are coming from around the world, lured by new condos, a booming market and brand-name cachet.
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A Brooklyn mansion held less appeal for an architect planning a makeover than the carriage house out back.
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The original plan for Lenox Hill called for a series of medical pavilions.
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One skinny mile long, Broad Channel offers beaches, bay views and a wildlife refuge, with just a hint of a downtown.
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A relatively small project turns into a major renovation.
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After he took a job in New York, John Berglund and his family were determined to live in the center of the city.
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Young and old alike are finding affordable real estate in Portland, Ore.
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Developers in central Long Island are offering upgraded home features, coverage of closing costs and other benefits to lure buyers.
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Things are always sweeter at the shore ? even in real estate, as indicated by fresh data on the market in several beach towns in New Jersey.
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As funds to restore beach sand have become increasingly scarce, Atlantic and Gulf Coast communities are having to develop their own solutions.
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This quiet town looks like a sleeper to pay attention to in the second-home sweepstakes.
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That vacation homes are often vacant and untended means that bugs have a free run of the house much of the time.
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?We?re the sandwich generation, the part of the population that has both children and parents to think about as we ? and as they ? age.?
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A large project with outdoor-focused amenities just outside Charleston, S.C., and a waterfront fractional-ownership development in Key Largo, Fla.
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Set on the high plains northwest of Mexico City, Mineral de Pozos is an unlikely place for a handful of foreign artists to settle. But over the past dozen or so years, that is precisely what has happened.
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A Houston couple is looking to buy a house in an age-restricted neighborhood, but wonder whether such residences have good resale value. June Fletcher takes a look.
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The duo have found a buyer for their Tennessee residence. Plus, guitarist Mick Jones received 25% over his asking price for his New York digs, and Washington hostess Marion Oates Charles has sold her Georgetown house.
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Wall Street Journal editor Kate Flatley Lavoie reflects on how much of her house she actually owns and the day when she can say it's 100% hers.
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Merrill Lynch & Co. may have used these transactions to delay recognition of losses from mortgage securities. The Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to investigate.
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The drop was wider than Wall Street expected and is a continued drag on General Motor Corp's bottom line.
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The Tacoma area is emerging as the region's worst subprime mortgage lending hot spot. With sales slowing and median prices falling, Tacoma-area foreclosures are rising.
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