Commercial property owners along Baltimore’s York Road corridor face paying a surtax to fund a proposed business improvement district. Councilman Bill Henry introduced legislation on Monday in the city council to allow the creation of a York Road Business Improvement ...

Out the county, hon. That’s Bawlmerese for the suburbs surrounding the city. In particular Baltimore County. In the decades after World War II that jurisdiction’s population surged from more than 270,000 people in 1950 to nearly 656,000 in 1980. The number ...

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Leasing at the partially completed 44-story luxury apartment building 414 Light St. is off to what the developer described as a "really good start."

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Executives from the lead developer of the $5.5 billion Port Covington project aren't sweating the potential for Baltimore to be saturated with new apartments.

Statewide home prices increased for the seventh straight month, jumping 4.2 percent from the previous August, according to Maryland Realtors. But a lack of supply and pending interest rate hikes remain concerns. Active inventory continued to decline statewide, off by ...

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Baltimore is toward the bottom of the pack in terms of best places to raise a family, according to a recently released study by WalletHub on the best and worst cities in the nation to raise a family.

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Fire destroyed the 150-year-old Budeke’s Paints store in Baltimore’s historic Fells Point neighborhood early Friday morning. The four-alarm blaze gutted the building in the 400 block of South Broadway and destroyed a church building next door. The Baltimore Fire Department responded ...

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Preservation Maryland Executive Director Nicholas Redding argues there are alternatives to demolishing roughly 20 percent of buildings on historic Ellicott City's Main Street.

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  Morgan State University’s long-gestating plan to redevelop Northwood Plaza shopping center is official. The university confirmed plans to raze the struggling strip mall with a $50 million overhaul featuring a Barnes & Noble, Starbucks and offices for the school’s police ...

Baltimore's apartment rent growth in August was among the weakest in the nation, according to RENTCafé.

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