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10 Big Booming Cities

May 24, 2013
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Tweet New residents are flocking to these 10 cities, which added the largest number of residents between July 2011 and July 2012, according to Census Bureau. Houston’s secret ingredient to growth: energy. With oil prices hovering around $90 a barrel the past couple of years, oil profits have poured into town. But nowadays the area [...]

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Houston Median Home Price Hits All-Time High

May 22, 2013
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Tweet The dwindling supply of homes on the market and a surge in million-dollar housing activity sent the Houston-area median home price into record high territory in April, a new report shows. The median jumped 14.5 percent to $184,900, according to the Houston Association of Realtors. April marked the second month in a row the median [...]

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Metro Atlanta Housing Market Booming

May 22, 2013
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Tweet The metro Atlanta housing market was “hot,” in the first quarter, boosted by job growth and record low inventory, Metrostudy reported. “The job market has gotten a lot better but now we don’t have enough houses to meet buyer demand,” said Eugene James, regional director for Metrostudy, in a statement. New home starts jumped [...]

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“Phoenix Rising” Is No Longer A Cliché

May 20, 2013
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Tweet The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently ranked Phoenix 9th among all metropolises nationwide for job creation. Phoenix had only recovered 44% of the 250,000 jobs it lost during the last recession, so there’s plenty of room for the desert metro to expand. That’s good news for the area’s home builders, whose 11,000-plus starts in [...]

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The 10 Best Biking Cities In America

May 17, 2013
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Tweet A recent international ranking of the world’s best cities for biking didn’t shower North America with plaudits. Only one city – Montreal – made it to the top 20. But the truth about biking in the U.S. and Canada is more complicated than that headline suggests: there are some really nice places to bike, [...]

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Texas Dominates New-Home-Sales Volume

May 15, 2013
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Tweet While the California housing market rebounded over the past year, Texas dominated on volume, according to a report from analysis firm CoreLogic. Among the top 10 markets for the volume of new home sales, four were in Texas, with Houston leading the country. There were more than 14,400 new home sales in Houston over [...]

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10 Hottest U.S. Housing Markets Of 2013

May 10, 2013
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Tweet After a long and painful downturn in the housing market, home prices in many – but not all – regions of the U.S. are showing signs of recovery. According to Zillow, home values rose 5.1% across the U.S. between February 2012 and February 2013. Many local housing markets are performing considerably better than the [...]

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The 10 Most Exciting Cities In America

May 6, 2013
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Tweet When we think of an exciting place to live, we think about places where there is always something to do – whether it’s eating at new restaurants or jogging through a park. Recently, Movoto got to thinking about cities and what makes them exciting and interesting places to live. They compiled a list of [...]

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As Sacramento Housing Market Shines, ‘Shadow Inventory’ Talk Abates

May 6, 2013
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Tweet The threat has been hanging over the Sacramento real estate market for years: A hypothetical “shadow inventory” of foreclosed homes that forecasters said could suddenly come up for sale and flood the market with cut-rate houses. But with home prices rising sharply in recent months and the supply of homes for sale near record [...]

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Best Cities For Young Entrepreneurs

May 6, 2013
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Tweet Young entrepreneurs started many of the tech powerhouses of this decade. Young entrepreneurs often have little savings and few years of business experience, so they need funding as well as mentors and collaborators, and they need to be able to get their small business off the ground cheaply. NerdWallet sifted through the factors that matter [...]

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