NEW YORK — Applications for mortgages to buy homes rose last week for the third straight week. The Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday overall applications increased 5.8 percent from a week earlier, driven by increases in purchase and refinance applications. ...

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From the road, the wooded lot looks like most undeveloped suburban parcels. But a Catonsville developer’s plan to convert the 10.2-acre lot just north of Timonium into a 64-unit, age-restricted condominium community has stirred a string of protests around the ...

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WASHINGTON — The nation’s homeownership rate remained at its lowest in more than a decade, hampered by a rise in foreclosures and weak demand for housing. The percentage of households that owned their homes was unchanged at 66.9 percent in ...

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LOS ANGELES — The foreclosure crisis intensified across a majority of large U.S. metropolitan areas this summer, with Chicago and Seattle — cities outside the states that have shouldered the worst of the housing downturn — seeing a sharp increase ...

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At the University of Baltimore’s real estate program, some of the lessons these days are in real time. That’s where Deborah A. Ford and other faculty are using the housing crisis as a teaching tool for students in the state’s ...

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court jury Thursday awarded a total of more than $4.6 million in damages to two young adults who suffered permanent brain damage as a result of lead poisoning. The siblings ingested lead as children while residing ...

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NEW YORK — Karl Case, the co-creator of a widely watched housing market index, was upbeat three weeks ago. Mulling the economy while at a meeting at a resort near the Berkshires, Case thought the makings of a recovery were ...

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Some 600 housing experts and elected officials will analyze the impact of the recession on Maryland’s housing market and the outlook for recovery at a daylong conference Tuesday. The annual Governor’s Conference on Housing will take place at the Baltimore ...

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WASHINGTON — New homes sold at the second-slowest pace on record in August, signaling that the housing market will remain a drag on the economy. Last month’s new home sales were unchanged from a month earlier at a seasonally adjusted ...

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WASHINGTON — The feeble economy exhibited a smidgen of strength Thursday, with mildly positive reports on jobs, store sales and housing. Figures released on unemployment claims, store sales and home-buying contracts all trend in the right direction, tempering fears that ...

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