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The Maples circa 1935. Library of Congress photo See Updates for The Maples Condominiums & Towns Maples Square (AKA The Maples, Friendship House), designed by William Lovering and built by English immigrant William Mayne Duncanson between 1795 and 1797, is the oldest privately owned building e...
11/29/2011
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Goes Rental on 14th JBG Backs Away From Condos New condos in DC After breaking ground in early January 2011 on a well publicized 125 unit condominium project named District Condos, JBG Co. broke the news today that the project on 14th and S streets NW will become apartments instead. In a partners...
11/29/2011
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National Harbor Loses Disney After struggling through 2008 and slow progress since in both the retail and condominium sectors, National Harbor boosted its profile in May of 2009 with the announcement of an $11M land sale to Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Disney was considering the 15-acre site o...
11/26/2011
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xkxd Money Chart It may be the mother of all infographics. Among other things, Americans pay $15,200,000,000. in capital gains taxes (1031 exchange, people), with $25,750,000,000. capital gains death exclusion. Everything from loose change value per pound to the USGDP. Wow.
11/22/2011
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Obama Signs FHA, VA Loan Limits & Slaps on GSE Fee President Obama'a signature today on H.R. 2112, the bill reinstating extended loan limits for FHA and VA loans through December 31, 2013 excludes government sponsored entities Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. As we previously reported, since Octob...
11/18/2011
Choose Sides: Hornbeam or Ironwood? Learning to live with those horrendous revised forms we've been using the past few years (seems like forever) in real estate-related transactions? The ones that (don't) show you clearly what the buyer and seller pay? Well, don't get too comfortable. Now the CFP...
11/14/2011
PEPCO Planting (another) One on Friendship Heights PEPCO really likes Friendship Heights. And they like big watts (and they can not lie). So much so that the power giant has purchased 5220 Wisconsin Avenue from Akridge with the intention of inflating their existing power plant. Not that the used...
11/14/2011
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DC Foreclosures Compared to National Increases Foreclosure Filings in U.S. Increase 7% Five states accounted for 53 percent of all U.S. filings. California (#1 at 55,312) and Nevada, Arizona, Florida and Michigan in top five according to data provided by RealtyTrac. Bloomberg reports that U.S. fo...
11/14/2011
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2011 NAR Study of Home Buyers & Sellers A new survey by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows that home buyers are now staying within their means and more home sellers are using real estate agents to list and sell their homes. Of the 5,708 buyers and sellers surveyed during the summer ...
11/12/2011
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