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- Baltimore-area new condos: Lots to go around
- Who's eligible for the repeat-buyer tax credit?
- Guess the hidden-gem neighborhoods
- Expanded home buyer tax credits to become law
- Senate passes home buyer credits
- Housing markets: Baltimore vs. Washington (and BWI)
- Houses and house parties
- Sprinkler-system requirement survives challenge
- Home buyer tax credits: Are you in?
- Home buyer tax credit: More details and a lot of angst
- First-time AND second-time home buyer credit?
- Foreclosures and financial protection
- Is "not as bad" the new good?
- Home buying and selling in the Baltimore area
- Remodeling in a down market
- Real estate poll results: The time (of year) to buy
- First-time home buyer tax credit: news roundup
- Hidden-gem neighborhoods: It's a date
- Survey results: Recommending where you live, or not
- $4 billion for affordable + green homes
- Analysis: Expect 11 percent drop in home prices
- What to do about nightmare neighbors?
- The cost of selling a home in today's market
- Negotiating your rent
- Where home prices aren't falling
- New real estate poll: Seasonal considerations
- How do you like your neighborhood?
- Average rents: down
- How not to sell a house
- Comment of the day
- A parade of homes the Brothers Grimm could get behind
- Waiting for equilibrium
- A first-time buyer tax credit Q&A
- For sale: fewer homes
- A word to the wise
- Light Source: What d'you know?
- Moving back in with family (and other reactions to a rough economy)
- Short sales
- Real estate poll results: First-time buyer tax credit
- Selling your home at a loss
- Asking prices down
- Neighbor dilemma: Suggestions?
- Quote of the day
- Baltimore-area home sales up for 4th month
- Good neighbors, bad neighbors, no neighbors
- Rocky road ahead for the housing market, firm warns
- Home prices ... up?
- Tenant negotiates a smaller rent increase
- Baltimore in the news
- The first-time buyer tax credit and you
- The right-sized house for you
- Uncle Sam offers relocating military personnel some aid
- 1,000!
- The cost of a four-bedroom house -- across the country
- Housewarming gifts -- what's useful?
- Lego house -- emphasis on the "house"
- Hancock: Don't extend the first-time buyer tax credit
- Homeowner beware
- "Sticky" land prices
- Video of Brooklyn Green Townhomes
- Market's tough for affordable housing, too
- Real estate poll: The right-sized house
- Small may be the new big, but ...
- Your take on supply vs. demand
- Healthy -- and not-so-healthy -- homes
- Don't call us, we'll call you
- A sign of life?
- Foreclosure's shadow falling over commercial real estate
- Interesting facts
- The eighth-most viewed home for sale
- Struggling with energy bills?
- Finding the right home in an unexpected place
- Supply vs. demand in your neck of the woods
- When 7.2% unemployment looks good
- 3,000!
- A tale of two jurisdictions' housing markets
- Live chat with economist Anirban Basu on the Maryland economy
- Remember: Live chat tomorrow
- OK, fine, location matters too
- Light for all
- Choosing where to move: BRAC edition
- How Baltimore stacks up
- Live chat on Friday: Economist Anirban Basu
- Price point, price point, price point
- Happily renting
- Poll results: If you controlled FHA
- A lot of reduced prices in Baltimore
- A split housing market
- Little Italy residents -- and their renovation -- on TV
- August home sales
- The not-so-expensive 'burbs
- Got $11.9 million lying around?
- Mortgage troubles? Meet with a lender Saturday
- Oh, the beautiful numbers
- Less-expensive suburbs: Watch this space
- Factory-built homes, the next generation
- Got questions about the first-time buyer tax credit?
- The not-so-expensive neighborhoods
- When ARMs adjust
- $8,000 buyer credit: No, your 3-year-old does not qualify
- New real estate poll: FHA loans
- Poll results: Staying and going
- Homes for sale under $250,000: Where are they?
- An energy check-up for your home
- Next on the bailout parade: FHA?
- Smile! You're on code-enforcer camera
- Priciest city neighborhoods
- Most expensive communities in the Baltimore area
- Live chat: Economist Anirban Basu
- Buying Into Baltimore
- Would you move to Accident? How about Boring?
- New real estate poll: Staying or moving
- File this under "C" for "Could Be Worse" (also "Could Be Better")
- Live chat opportunity: foreclosure prevention
- Patterson Park auctions: bellwether?
- Dueling surveys on home values
- Making Home Affordable program: Are you in?
- What a balanced housing market looks like
- Real estate poll results: Foreclosures and short sales
- Buying a small place?
- A tale of two Baltimore buyers (OK, three)
- Our housing market, neighborhood by neighborhood
- Good news -- possibly
- One week left on 'amnesty' for city tax credit
- Md. mortgage troubles
- Today's live chat
- Jamie Smith Hopkins: Live chat with economist Celia Chen on Baltimore-area housing market
- Live chat about housing market at noon
- Where home sales are brewing
- The clock is ticking on the $8,000 tax credit
- Don't forget: Q&A Thursday
- Homeowners on their home values
- Small is the new big?
- New real estate poll: Foreclosures and short sales
- Poll results: Calling the housing-market bottom(s)
- Rental vacancies here and elsewhere
- House for $100 -- sort of
- Price reduced -- by $41 million
- Next week: Housing forecaster takes your questions
- Need foreclosure-prevention help?
- Financing that home purchase -- now vs. then
- July home sales and Zillow's take on the local market
- July home sales in the Baltimore area: up
- Unearned property tax credits
- Real estate poll: Forecasting the housing-market bottom
- Poll results: Location, location, location
- Property reassessments out of cycle
- Useful real estate sites
- BRAC folks in demand
- Hidden-gem nomimations thus far
- Magnets 'round the world
- Some good economic news
- Auctions (and what to know before you go)
- Calling the bottom of the housing slump
- Real estate poll: Location, location, location
- New jobs -- er, maybe
- Magnets are in the mail
- For sale: three bed, three bath geodesic dome
- Psst. Yeah, you. Want a magnet?
- FBI: Tell us about rental scams
- Lenders into landlords?
- New home sales up ... or possibly down
- Poll results: From home to work and back again
- What a real estate agent can and can't tell you
- The science of housing slumps
- Hidden-gem nominations
- Back to the drawing board: Luxury project goes affordable
- What shape is your recovery?
- School test scores and homebuying decisions
- Signs of home sales to come?
- Great affordable neighborhoods: Your nominations
- Outbid?
- Nominate a hidden-gem community
- New real estate poll: Your commute
- Going the distance (for a house)
- A cease and desist on loan-modification 'help'
- What's 'affordable'?
- Lauraville celebrates 'Best Old House' recognition
- More homes for sale under $250,000
- First-time home buyers
- BGE's "smart" meter plan
- Price reductions in the Baltimore area
- Poll results: How you'd like to question the experts
- Silo Point
- More on June home sales
- Home sales: Up. Yeah, you heard me. UP.
- $22 million to combat Md. homelessness
- Now playing on YouTube: loan-modification advice
- Mortgage fraud in Maryland
- Local condo law blog launched
- Home maintenance
- More search options for home buyers
- New poll: Weigh in on Q&As
- Poll results: The experts you'd like to question
- Tougher times for renters, landlords
- Hey there, underwater borrowers: Want a refi?
- Instead of new homes, these folks got heartache
- This story makes me feel itchy
- Real estate for the Facebook crowd
- Baltimore's new-construction tax credit
- Deciding when to refinance
- Home appraisal "code of conduct" under fire
- New real estate poll: Ask the experts
- Real estate poll results: Government intervention
- Baltimore on Top 10 lists
- Report: Expect significant drop in Baltimore home prices
- Avoiding carbon monoxide poisoning
- New chance to get Baltimore new-construction tax credit
- Opinions about title insurance? Your time has come
- Tracking HUD stimulus dollars near you
- Mortgage bankers: Expect higher rates
- Looking for a rent-free home on a lot of land?
- Housing downturns of the past (ouch)
- New real estate poll: Your tax dollars at work
- Real estate poll results: Now hear this
- Inner Harbor Ritz condos: 21 sold, 171 to go
- Home sales by city neighborhood
- Supersized homes (and the impact on price)
- Any other name would smell as sweet?
- Tips for dealing with a mostly abandoned home
- Real estate poll: Your post here
- Real estate poll results: Low offers
- May home sales in the Baltimore area
- Home sellers reducing prices
- More on the $8,000 new-buyer tax credit
- How do you know when it's time to buy?
- Real estate poll: Low-low offers
- Real estate poll results: The price you'd offer
- Harford County lowers property tax rate
- A development proposal, despite it all
- Maryland's economy in 2008
- Price reductions -- and a new real estate poll
- Real estate poll results: Rental costs
- Using the new-buyer tax credit for downpayment
- A modest proposal
- More Md. prime borrowers behind on mortgages
- Another look at local home prices
- What do homebuyers, sellers and agents want?
- A useful way to look at home sales
- Q&A: Would-be landlords
- FHA and lenders part ways -- not amicably
- New real estate poll: Rental costs
- Real estate poll results: Asking prices
- ISO square feet
- Renters, landlords: scams to watch out for
- In search of "distressed" homes
- Hey, you foreclosure buyers out there ...
- Truth in (property tax) advertising
- Home sales: 10 years at a glance
- HomeGain survey: Agents opine on local prices
- Housing stimulus?
- Real estate poll: Baltimore-area asking prices
- State Center project: New developer, but no go?
- High-tech house hunting
- Real estate poll results: Affordability
- Tweet all about it
- The optimism of homeowners
- Want to show off your place?
- Buyers in the wings
- Housing markets: Ours vs. the rest of the nation's
- Q&A: Patterson Park Neighborhood Association
- Baltimore real estate poll: Affordability
- Community-focused websites: Your finds
- Baltimore-area home sales, April '09 edition
- 'Buying into Baltimore' this Saturday
- Emptiest neighborhood? Not one you'd probably guess
- The income to buy or rent a Baltimore-area home
- Distress transactions hit 18 percent; values fall
- The risk of foreclosures in our region
- Q&A: Epiphany in Baltimore
- Housing site gets "street views"
- Home tour in Patterson Park neighborhood
- Poll results: recession and spending habits
- The Struever saga continues
- Using the power of the Internet
- Q&A: Dollar Homes
- Q&A: Outer Harbor Initiative
- Where home prices are dropping fastest
- A week's roundup of interesting real estate numbers
- Foreclosed: newly built homes
- EBDI open house
- "For Sale" 2.0
- Another opinion on Baltimore-area housing values
- Baltimore income vs. housing costs
- Poll: The recession and your spending habits
- The spring home-buying season: a pick up?
- A recessionary tale
- Appraising the appraisers' role in the housing bust
- Bill aimed at renters fails to pass
- Q&A: Tim Higgins, home loan consultant
- The market for new condos in the Baltimore area
- March home sales in the Baltimore metro area
- Fighting foreclosure blight
- Slots to lower Baltimore property tax rate?
- A request for home buying books
- Baltimore on list of 'Most Livable Cities'
- Cardin: 'Now is the time to buy'
- Q&A: Jonathan Benya, real estate agent
- Mortgage defaults
- Mortgage rates: There's low, and then there's low
- Guess that number, Part II
- Baltimore real estate: Guess that number
- Real estate by the numbers
- Q&A: Fair housing
- The Simpsons notices the housing crisis
- Conversation starter: Baltimore revitalization
- Baltimore homebuyers get new hope, settlement date
- Tracking home sales on your street
- Getting a handle on Baltimore-area home prices
- Marylanders' income in 2008
- Baltimore homebuyer stuck in limbo
- Poll: What you said about low mortgage rates
- 'Making Home Affordable' site launches
- Mortgage rates drop
- New home starts: up
- Q&A: Paul Cooper, auctioneer
- Maryland: Fifth for mortgage fraud
- One solution for money problems: roommates
- Looking for an apartment in Baltimore?
- Head of Baltimore Realtor group resigns
- Md. unemployment jumps upward
- New guide for homebuyers, sellers
- February home sales in the Baltimore metro area
- Figuring out where your house leaks energy
- Can a home seller see the appraisal of his own home?
- Good news: savings rate is up
- Maryland mortgage delinquencies
- Where the under-$250k homes are in the Baltimore area
- Baltimore homebuyer explains his method
- Comment policy
- What you said about the mortgage-interest deduction
- A real estate hurricane
- Federal Hill wins national award
- The place to find a cheap home
- Buyer? Seller? Step right up
- Q&A: Vera Ballard, personal moving consultant
- Portrait of (would-be) Baltimore-area home buyers
- Baltimore real estate: prices, sales by ZIP and neighborhood
- Poll: Mortgage tax deduction
- Higher heating bills?
- Homeownership -- and its incentives -- debated
- What you said about home prices
- Higher limits in Baltimore area for conforming loans
- Suburban Federal and the seeds of bank failure
- Poll: Are falling home prices bad or good?
- Factoid of the day
- Dictionary of the times
- The latest foreclosure-prevention efforts
- Maryland home sales in '08
- Maryland vs. Northern Virginia
- More answers to new-buyer-credit questions
- Tax credit for home buying
- Home sales and prices here vs. elsewhere
- Bay National's investor loans
- Oversupply in the suburbs
- Homeowners on their homes' value
- January home sales in the Baltimore area
- Q&A: Enterprise Homes
- Poll: Fix the housing market
- How new home sales fared in the Baltimore area
- Senate suggests tax breaks for ALL homebuyers
- Baltimore area home prices vs. incomes
- Baltimore home values down to '05 levels, Zillow says
- Q&A: Ross Mackesey
- Regulators close Suburban Federal Savings Bank
- Homes for sale vs. homes sold: Take the poll
- Update: City's predatory-lending suit against Wells Fargo
- Apartments: The next credit-crisis shoe to drop?
- What sort of stimulus would work?
- Work in construction?
- Q&A: Pat Hiban
- That "new buyer" tax credit may end up a real credit
- Here's what you said
- Property tax scam
- Poll: Tell me about yourself
- Summing up the local housing situation
- Q&A: Civil Justice
- Poll: When will home sales increase?
- Mulling the renovation to-do list
- Hancock: Baltimore City 'holding its own'
- For renters: New sites to explore
- Good news, bad news (gov't job edition)
- Four Seasons condos delayed
- How to buy a home without a mortgage
- December home sales in the Baltimore area
- Think YOUR housing costs are through the roof?
- To refinance or not to refinance?
- Assessment season
- Spam of the times
- Early warnings
- Back -- sort of
- Time out
- How-to Monday: Investing in affordable housing
- Rents: More expensive or less, depending
- Have an opinion about growth?
- Mortgage rates: Are you dizzy yet?
- Q: What sort of homes sold here last month?
- More commentary on home prices
- You knew it was only a matter of time
- The borrower or the loan?
- How-to Monday: Escrow
- Property taxes: Baltimore vs. D.C.
- Home prices last month
- September home sales
- Bragging rights for Charles Village, Annapolis
- Interest rates and their impact
- Sellers lowering their prices for a 10-day event
- How-to Monday: Researching loans and foreclosures
- Poll: Home sales
- Affordability ups and downs
- Housing grants and housing vacancies
- Changes this week, courtesy of the housing law
- A measure of housing risk
- Living near your work -- and getting money for it
- How-to Monday: Selling at auction
- Location, location, location
- Our share of the $3.9 billion
- Looking (or lookylooing)
- Poll: $700 billion bailout in your hands
- Peering in the Fannie, Freddie window
- Housing costs and other interesting facts
- Local commentary on the $700 billion bailout
- How-to Monday: Divorce and the family home
- B'more and 'burbs: Prices before, during, after the boom
- B'more and 'burbs: Sales before, during, after the boom
- D.C.: Before, during, after the boom
- Before, during and after the boom
- Canada's housing boom at an end now, too
- Ripples
- Foreclosure and crime
- July new home sales
- How-to Monday: What (and where) you can afford
- Need to get a permit?
- Tomorrow: Affordable places
- Home prices and other worries
- Case and Shiller: Agreeing to disagree?
- Home sales and housing predictions
- August home sales
- Buying event gets a lot of interest
- Mortgage-help event in Upper Marlboro
- Where mortgage rates are heading
- How-to Mondays: Apartment intelligence
- Some details on Fannie, Freddie takeover
- Fannie, Freddie at the brink of takeover
- Speaking of mortgages ...
- Looking for mortgage help?
- Poll: Predict August prices
- Proposed development splits a community
- Why people move
- When option ARMs adjust
- 'Slash' city property tax rate, economist says
- Yet another home-price forecast
- How-to Monday: Mortgage rates
- Population boom for Towson?
- A foreclosure snapshot -- Baltimore vs. Miami
- Tax collection dampened by sales slump
- Mortgage fraud on the rise
- Maryland still the highest-income state
- OFHEO shows home values falling 4 percent
- See what's happening in your area
- How-to Monday: International lookylooing
- Rating the home-search sites
- Don't forget about closing costs
- More people searching for Baltimore real estate
- Poll: How-to Mondays -- useful or not?
- It might be a housing slump ...
- Driving the bubble bus
- The un-bailed-out
- How-to Monday: Foreclosure help ... and "help"
- $100 house?
- More on home prices
- Smoking or non-smoking ... apartments?
- Where we stand, according to the NAR
- Greenspan's prediction: Prices bottoming next year
- Translating "for sale" jargon
- More homes selling at a loss, Zillow says
- How-to Monday: Improving your credit
- Oops
- MRIS' Mr. Is story, Episode 2
- July home sales: Prices, sales down
- Is your Zestimate a good estimate?
- A different sort of housing crunch
- Your condo experience may vary
- Zillow sees gap between housing perception, reality
- Pays to negotiate, Consumer Reports says
- Your How-to topic here
- How-to Monday: Credit scores
- Selling a house?
- Poll: Trouble with your mortgage?
- A legal primer on foreclosure
- Q&A: Economist Mark Zandi
- It's 3 a.m.: Do you know who owns your mortgage?
- Silo Point sets prices
- Whither interest rates?
- Settling on the home sale
- How-to Monday: House trading
- Cash-outs and cash-ins
- Most expensive places to live
- West side story
- Q: What new homes are selling?
- U.S. home sales fall
- Housing bill, by the numbers
- What costs more: Living in the city or the 'burbs?
- Property taxes vs. car costs
- How-to Monday: Tracking down a property owner
- Home improvement doesn't escape slump
- An appeal from a local nonprofit
- Poll: Buyers weigh in
- To pay off faster, or not to pay off faster
- Fannie, Freddie spend big -- on political influence
- What home sellers want
- Take a shot at fixing the mess
- How-to Monday: Neighbor disputes
- It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... a Realtor?
- The front yard of neighbors' discontent
- Higher rates coming to a mortgage giant near you?
- Et tu, Fannie and Freddie?
- More details on June home sales
- Property tax refund -- for some
- June home sales: Price and sales down
- Name your price
- Up, up and ...
- How-to Monday: Where homes are selling
- Speaking of blame ...
- Income: $14,000 a year ... or $50,000 a month?
- Step right up to play the blame game
- To hope or not to hope
- New sites for housing research
- How housing affects your daily expenses
- How-to Monday: Paying off your mortgage early
- Eminent domain -- useful or counterproductive?
- Retirement wealth hurt by housing market
- Unusual homes
- As rates rise, your buying power falls
- A moving experience
- A home-sales snapshot
- Not a jumbo number of jumbos
- Radio silence
- How-to Monday: Finding foreclosures
- Government loans for everyone?
- Need to improve your credit?
- 'I would like to say that a turnaround is imminent ...'
- The cost of mortgage fraud: $1 billion and counting
- Cutting back to afford the house
- Shaq to the rescue?
- Did we say increase? We meant decrease
- How-to Monday: Price ranges
- Home values: Separate and unequal pain
- Metropolitan Money Store victims speak out
- Poll: How has the housing market affected you?
- Company says: Prices down, risk up
- Homebuilding in the region
- A housing (TV show) boom
- Looking for a cheaper home? Good news
- May home sales -- I feel like I've heard this before
- Housing fair this Saturday
- How-to Monday: "Trigger leads"
- Bad credit, good advice
- Homeowner equity and other signs of tight times
- Foreclosures and (lack of) equity
- Housing and economic growth
- Foreclosures of the rich and famous
- A tax-sale admission
- A prediction on home prices
- How-to Monday: Rental costs
- The raccoon ripple effect
- The tax-credit effect
- Housing fair -- for buyers and renters
- An escrow allegation
- Overpaying to get the loan?
- Higher fee, condo concerns and lots of construction
- The 800-pound gorillas
- A smorgasbord of news
- How-to Monday: Property taxes
- Is your house your retirement plan?
- Map those trends
- Housing affordability improves
- Maryland home prices: 8th biggest drop in nation
- Wells Fargo and city exchange barbs
- More notification for renters?
- Two new developments
- How-to Monday: Childproofing
- A different way to heat and cool
- Q&A with a man who gave an early warning
- More on down payment requirements
- Fannie Mae changes down payment rules
- What renters and homeowners have in common
- It's all relative
- Monitoring mortgage risk
- Too good to be true
- How-to Monday: The buying timeline
- An affordable housing suggestion
- Are we there yet?
- April home sales
- Housing and the government
- Your idea here
- These homes are selling
- State Center plans unveiled
- Home buying fair this Saturday
- Owing more than the home is worth
- How-to Monday: Property lines (or, Whose tree is it anyway?)
- More news on the "credit squeeze" front
- Harvard center: Pay attention to rentals
- Tallying up foreclosure's toll on children
- ... Or maybe there will be a property tax cut
- Air quality near you
- Lowball offers
- Fed cuts rates again
- Putting a dollar figure on the decline
- Latest personal info leak is mortgage-related
- Homeownership rate heading downward
- Fannie Mae weighs in
- More vacant homes
- How-to Monday: Homesharing
- Mapping the ripple effects
- Permit to build
- State of Md. opens center -- in New Jersey
- A moving message
- New homes for Brewers Hill
- Sign of the times?
- No break in city property taxes
- A blast from the -- er -- present
- Another day, another poll
- Home sales, prices fall
- How-to Monday: Mortgage fees
- Buying or selling a condo? Read this
- Foreclosure help -- by mail
- Another way of looking at affordability
- Report: Spending on remodeling will continue to fall
- What homes have to do with cars
- Energy-saving advice
- Worried homeowners
- How-to Monday: Rent-to-own
- Things that make you go "hmm"
- What's getting built
- A housing market that's not one flavor
- March home sales
- Feeling left behind
- Million-dollar listings
- Paying more for the loan
- Can't get enough of foreclosure maps?
- How-to Monday: Home improvement
- For sale -- sold
- Biggest bubble country? Not us, IMF says
- Mortgage vs. rent
- You're invited to a housing forum
- Condo sales crimped
- Jobs and housing
- Subprime and exotic loans: A bird's eye view
- Not all homes falling in value, Zillow.com says
- How-to Monday: Developments in your back yard
- The lowdown on big loans
- Potentially inflated tax bills
- Who these homebuyers are
- Living where you work
- The mortgage mess: a fresh example
- Asking less
- Dueling studies
- Here's something new
- How-to Monday: Schools and neighborhood safety
- Statistic of the day
- Come again?
- Is your neighborhood making you unfit?
- Population growth slows in metro area
- The building permits go down, down, down
- Builder Mart 2008
- Fed lowers short-term interest rates
- A 'failure of regulation'
- Foreclosure cases, county by county
- How-to Monday: Affordable mortgages
- Mortgage rates head ... up?
- A mortgage picture
- Moving?
- Maryland and mortgage fraud
- Freddie Mac weighs in on housing values
- A tough year to be working in construction
- City home sales -- by neighborhood
- The Feb. housing market -- and a twist on developer aid
- How-to Monday: What to do after you buy
- Crime and the 'burbs
- Affordable housing effort not really so affordable?
- An inequity of equity
- Cutting back on foreclosures -- the tax-sale kind
- Government sets new loan limits
- Builder pulls out of Arundel development
- Foreclosure prevention event draws 850-plus
- New life for down payment assistance
- Mortgage rate roundup
- Pulling out the crystal ball on mortgage rates
- Homestead tax credit Q&A
- A rental blacklist
- How-to Monday: Choosing an agent, part II
- If you're considering a reverse mortgage ...
- Tomorrow's How-to
- McMansions: future slums?
- The frustrations of mailbox ownership
- Foreclosures of the rich and famous
- A drop -- or not
- State, loan services hammer out a deal
- Numbers, numbers, numbers
- Homestead credit redux
- Maps of the most and least expensive areas
- How-to Monday: Choosing an agent, part I
- Tomorrow's How-to
- The clientele that's still buying
- Putting those home sales into perspective
- Sign? What sign?
- More affordable 'burbs
- Speaking of energy efficiency ...
- Spending less on energy
- Watch those property tax rates
- Foreclosure help coming to an arena near you
- O'Malley to servicers: Pick up the phone
- Color them green
- Most and least expensive -- city
- How-to Monday: Mortgage insurance
- Close to home
- Stay tuned for tomorrow's How-to Monday
- Another sensationalist post
- Trump says: Hooray for foreclosures
- 2007 in the rear-view mirror
- Most and least expensive places of '07
- A new tally for days on market
- Prices down in Baltimore, but way up in Cumberland
- Toll relative to Toll: No thanks
- Live York?
- Counseling group criticizes foreclosure-help hotline
- New restrictions on mortgage insurance
- More people expect falling prices
- January home sales: Insert gloomy adjective here
- How-to Monday: Foreclosure help
- Location, location, location
- Survey says ...
- Dealing with a tired-looking bathroom
- Don't put off that call
- Housing and the self-employed
- FHA loans may be expanding
- Q: What happens when there are fewer home sales?
- How-to Monday: Short sales
- Another look at affordability
- New home, new baby?
- Can't sell? Rent
- Come one, come all
- A (would-be) buyer's experience
- Homestead credit -- back to the way it was?
- Fed cuts rates -- again
- What it takes to buy: $88k
- The bottom line on new home sales
- How-to Monday: Renter's insurance
- Speedy renovation: 106 hours
- Rebates, the economy and housing
- Just remember: It could be worse
- Jumbo conforming loans?
- New homes planned -- yes, really
- U.S. home sales in '07
- Speaking of falling rates ...
- New site for home buyers and sellers
- What the Fed cut means for you
- The Fed slashes rates
- How-to Monday: Competition
- An LA tale of cashing out to rent
- Bringing things full circle
- Zillow expands coverage here
- In downtown housing news ...
- Offices feel the housing pinch
- The news on new homes
- PR from NAR
- Big drop in mortgage rates
- Housing's impact on gov't jobs
- O'Malley's foreclosure plan
- To buy or not to buy: That is the argument
- Realtors group weighs in on Baltimore
- How-to Monday: Dealing with that pesky draft
- Home buying event
- A night at City Hall
- More on Baltimore v. Wells Fargo
- Housing market hurts Provident
- No bond, no case
- More on housing '07
- Our housing market, circa 2007
- The flip side of the housing market
- A foreclosure suggestion
- Weekly interest-rate roundup
- Foreclosures -- a suit and a forum
- Word of the year? I'll bet you can guess
- Maryland at 'crossroads' on growth, state says
- Baltimore group launches foreclosure-help ad campaign
- How-to Monday: Help for renters -- and landlords
- DIY drywall
- Subprime fallout, close to home
- Subprime space-station loans
- More on the homestead property tax credit
- Foreclosure crunch in Prince George's
- Lowering taxes, or possibly raising them
- Applying for the homestead tax credit?
- The housing market and the government
- Advice for sellers and buyers in '08 -- and an appeal
- Wanted: Your tax assessment stories
- Property taxes in the city: Change coming?
- The nation in November -- and how we compare
- How-to Monday: Assessments and appeals
- Harney: 2008 could be just what housing market needs
- Live Baltimore and Baltimore living
- Legg looks to stem losses
- Cost of homebuilding in Arundel could rise
- Anyone getting tired of grim news?
- State reassesses property values
- Home sales near you: November
- A closer look at local home sales
- REALLY jumbo loans
- A silver lining
- How-to Monday: Buying vs. renting
- What do credit cards and mortgages have in common?
- When does renting make more sense than buying?
- The slump -- and property taxes
- Good news, bad news
- Coming soon: buying vs. renting
- Price pressure -- upward
- And you helped!
- New neighbor for homeowner
- A subprime primer
- Nifty new doodad
- Homebuilding still slowing
- Problem? What problem?
- Housing shortage -- yes, you read that right
- How-to Monday: Points
- New lending rules planned
- Foreclosure prevention classes
- Homeowners, take note
- Taking stock of homebuilders' stock
- Wait -- HOW many rooms?
- More money from Fed
- Freddie Mac goes viral
- Rouse's successor braces for land-value hit
- No rate cut for you
- Asking prices continue to slip
- Fed lowers interest rates -- again
- Don't count BRAC until it's hatched?
- What's happening with home sales in Baltimore
- Baltimore home sales numbers for November
- A $10 billion bite by subprime
- How-to Monday: Pricing
- For Sale: Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad home
- East Baltimore neighborhood gets attention
- Object in mirror is worse than it appears?
- Another perspective on the rate freeze
- Stay tuned for How-to Monday
- Next up: a Disney cartoon
- Credit crunch hits commercial
- Not the time to be looking for work
- Rate freezes for some
- More reaction to the mortgage rate freeze
- Who's eligible for the interest rate freeze
- And now for the reaction
- Foreclosure forum today: POSTPONED
- Early details of the mortgage-rate-freeze plan
- Atta Poku foreclosure case on The Daily Kos
- Mayor's housing goals
- Slump moves south
- Home sellers asking for less
- Judges comment on foreclosure case
- Help is on the way! Or maybe not
- Who's naughty and who's ... well, naughty
- Columbia homeowner gets another day in court
- Finding bottom on the housing slump
- How-to Monday: Timing the housing market
- Mortgage rate freezes?
- Known unknowns
- Stay tuned for How-to Monday
- An "incomplete" snapshot and a "stinking lie"
- Guess that price
- Baltimore housing: Hey, could be worse
- Goldman Sachs: Big price drops for Md. homes
- Rehabbing video series, part V
- Down goes the housing index
- Weighing whether to buy a house?
- Relocating in the slump
- An affordable-housing plan
- Rehabbing video series, part IV
- Quite depressing
- Hey! Come back with my virtual house!
- Read all about it -- tomorrow
- The home as ATM
- U.S. home sales fall in October
- Rehabbing video series, part III
- "No real positive news" for the housing market
- Home sales trends in your community
- Rehabbing video series, part II
- Home sales in October: By the numbers
- Looking for state help on those settlement costs?
- How-to Monday: Rehabbing
- Shiller on housing fixes: a Great Depression primer
- A big Black Friday, despite housing slump
- Stay tuned for the first video How-to Monday
- Hey, don't blame ME!
- What housing has to do with holiday sales
- Home sales vs. home prices: Fight! Fight!
- What's happened to construction jobs
- Us vs. them (how our housing market compares)
- Maryland jobs and the housing effect
- Wait: It gets worse
- More slowing on the new-home front
- So much for good cheer
- Targeting BRAC growth
- Foreclosure-help efforts
- How-to Monday: Renting vs. selling, part II (financing)
- Tomorrow's How-to
- Home's not selling?
- Meanwhile, in California
- Everything is interconnected
- Bill targets mortgage practices
- A local look at home sales -- coming soon
- Speak up: Interested in a detailed peek at home sales near you?
- Whose home is it anyway?
- Mortgage scammers
- Survey says: Good time to buy a home
- Brother, can you spare a dime to purchase some stock?
- The ripple effect of foreclosures
- Columbia condo tower might not get built
- Look on the bright side, Realtors say
- What? The boom's over?
- Wonk alert: Plans for growth in a town near you
- Shiller predicts much longer housing slump
- A multi-million-dollar campaign for your home-buying vote
- How-to Monday: Deciding whether to sell or rent
- Going, going, going -- green
- Big home price decline predicted for Baltimore
- Prices up, but sales way down
- Baltimore home sales numbers for October
- Home sales ... and cancellations
- Lousy grades for housing markets -- and more blame
- It's a great time to buy, say the folks who are selling
- Economists to home builders: no bottom yet
- Brainstorming housing-market solutions
- How much would your home cost ...
- A different home sales strategy
- The sitcoms have noticed the housing market
- Forecast: More home price drops to come
- Politics and the housing market
- West side redevelopment
- How-to Monday: Apartment hunting
- Temporarily offline
- Housing "misery" -- or less of it
- Seller-financed down payment assistance wins a round
- Housing aside, the economy's still growing
- Fed goes for the quarter-point cut in interest rates
- An earlier-than-expected rally of Realtors
- Fed ponders interest rates
- Selling that home
- Renovating -- or thinking about it?
- A rally of Realtors
- Down-dooby-doo-down-down
- Investors get out their crystal balls
- Paulson's take on the economy and subprime
- Everything you wanted to know about BRAC
- Lending and politics
- How-to Monday: Closing costs
- How to make money as a lender today
- The remodeling bottom line
- Affordable housing and tax breaks
- What Rouse actually wanted to call his nonprofit
- Onward, lemmings!
- Shopping for a mortgage?
- A little reality check
- A prediction for Maryland
- More lender losses
- What the housing slump isn't hurting: sales of ginormous yachts
- Community developer moves on
- Ken and Barbie at risk of foreclosure
- Stop moving so I can count you, dagnabbit
- Realtors say no new (real estate) taxes
- Foreclosure prediction -- and suggestions
- New home sales: Good news and bad news
- Maryland ponders mortgage laws
- Interest rates fall
- Q&A: Refinance or home-equity loan?
- Home sales down, inventory up
- History gives reason to hope
- Look out, Canton: Here comes Dundalk
- Nattering nabobs of negativity
- Speaking of mortgages ...
- A mortgage snapshot
- Mortgage brokers defend fees
- By popular (lack of) demand: no news
- How-to Monday: Finding auctions
- Staging (or, how to make it look like you have more taste than you actually do)
- China, on the other hand ...
- But what about Malaysia?
- Watch out, UK
- Taking stock of homebuilder pain
- Debt (mis)management
- The Wonk needs your help
- News digest: Deal or no deal?
- Mortgage bankers and two of the Seven Deadly Sins
- Behind the boom, not just the bust
- Mortgage risk (or not)
- Affordability
- Salaries vs. home prices
- Shopping for a loan?
- News digest: To sprawl or not to sprawl?
- GAO on foreclosures
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- Builder confidence falls to record low
- News digest: Hot air gets more expensive
- Paulson speaks
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- News digest: Condos, condos everywhere
- Bernanke speaks
- "Bubble bloggers" in the news
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- News digest: Teamed-up banks, foreclosure mix-up and "monster" discounts
- How-to Monday: Walkability
- News digest: Apartments in McMansion land?
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- Competition for your dollars
- Daily news digest: Affordable housing, rule-breaking and more
- Subprime nation
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- Wonks, start your engines
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- Let me rephrase that
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- How-to Monday: Finding typical asking prices
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- Taxes, creative selling techniques and more
- Worst housing markets (for sellers)
- A familiar story
- Jobs, housing crunch, mortgages and more
- Foreclosure bill and tomorrow's news today
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- Calling all home inspectors
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- Tax sale bids
- Ground rent and Baltimore's (sort of) population count
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- News round-up
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- In Which I Confess I am a Wonk
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Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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