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Economy
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MarketWatch
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State-by-state look at house prices finds Washington, Colorado on top
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When it comes to home prices, the West is still the best. The two states with the biggest yearly price gains in February were Washington and Colorado, data firm CoreLogic said Tuesday. Home prices there rose 12.4% and 10.5%, respectively, over the previous 12 months.
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USA Today
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Millennials fuel apartment-building boom; will it last?
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Jason and Rebecca Petersen's lives are in flux, just as they are for many young families. They like life as renters in the urban neighborhood in Denver called LoHi, where apartments are steadily replacing single-family houses, and crowds of millennials flock to trendy shops and restaurants.
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Chicago Tribune
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More older Americans becoming renters
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Baby boomers are altering the American Dream. After having the home in the suburbs, the kids, the two cars, and maybe even the picket fence, a growing number now want to ride elevators to rental apartments and walk out the door to restaurants. When the kids are grown, an increasing number of empty nesters are selling homes and aspiring to live like urban millennials — in rental buildings full of amenities and free of lawn mowing, shoveling, mortgages and property taxes.
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The Hill
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Home loan delinquencies continue steady drop
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Consumers made their home equity loan payments on time during the final quarter of last year with the help of an expanding economy, another sign of the housing market's improving health, a new survey shows.
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The Wall Street Journal
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U.S. apartment market shows signs of losing steam
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The apartment-rental market cooled in the first quarter, according to reports from three research companies, suggesting a six-year boom that has pushed the cost of housing to unaffordable heights in many U.S. cities might be coming to an end. (Subscription may be required.)
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PRODUCT NEWS
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MP Global
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What's Under Your Floors?
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Here's a perfect way to streamline installation and boost long-term performance of new laminate floors: pair the planks with acoustic underlayment especially engineered to address the particularities of laminate.
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Ply Gem
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PVC Shake and Shingle
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The style and grace of shake-and-shingle clad homes is part of the American architectural tradition, but the upkeep required to keep these exteriors looking good is more than most homeowners care to take on.
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