Blueprint for a Custom Home

KELLI B. GRANT Flowers, shoes, pizza: Consumer goods are easy to order online. Now, more people are dropping thousands of dollars to buy—and customize—luxury-home plans over the Internet. Sites like

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Before Becoming a Landlord, Add Up Costs

ANYA MARTIN One of life’s luxuries is being able to afford a vacation home. But don’t underestimate its true cost—especially if you plan to rent it out… Doug Lebda, chief

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Rental Investment May Seem Safer Than It Really Is

By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD Investing in a tangible asset like real estate may seem to offer a greater sense of control. You can walk through a house, after all, which somehow

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Londoners Who Live at the Office

By RUTH BLOOMFIELD The pressure to create new housing in London has become so intense that office buildings across the city are being transformed into apartments… Despite concerns about the loss

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Homeowners name your price

By SANETTE TANAKA If someone offered you $1 million for your home, would you sell? Real-estate listings company Zillow wanted to find out. In 2006, the company created a feature called

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After you read the listings, your agent reads you

By ALISON ROGERS EVERY saleswoman will tell you that the customer is always transparent. Maybe not entirely, completely, but compared with the poker face a buyer thinks that he or

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U.S. Cracks Down on ‘Forced’ Insurance

By ALAN ZIBEL And LESLIE SCISM WASHINGTON—A U.S. housing regulator is cracking down on a little-known practice that has hit millions of struggling borrowers with high-price homeowners’ insurance policies arranged by

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Business has been good

By James Wacht President, Lee & Associates NYC  Kudos to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his predecessor, Rudolf Giuliani, for the business-friendly government New York City has experienced since 1994 that

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Quickly Zeroing In on New Places to Call Home

By KIT EATON Published: March 20, 2013 Finding a new place to live used to be all about hunting through the real estate pages of local newspapers or endless hours

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