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Real estate market gets off to good start in 2016

This is a wonderful time to reflect on last year and look at what it may mean for the next year as suggested in this quote by Jonathan Lockwood Hule, “Celebrate endings for they precede new ...

DATE: Jan 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate

Nearby structures, features can affect a home’s value

What’s nearby can affect property value, with some exceptions in La Plata County

DATE: Jan 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Home splurges to treat yourself to this season

So many of our home-improvement and design choices are practical ones: Which sofa will stand up over the years? Which paint color matches the furniture? But what about changes tha...

DATE: Jan 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

U.S. construction spending falls 0.4 percent in November

WASHINGTON â€“ U.S. construction spending fell in November for the first time in 17 months, reflecting weakness in spending on hotel and other private nonresidential construction and governm...

DATE: Jan 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Oil slump weighing on housing markets in Texas, North Dakota

There’s a dark side to those delightfully low gasoline prices: Housing markets are slumping in communities that were recently flush from the U.S. shale oil fracking boom. Home sal...

DATE: Jan 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Interior design in Durango: What’s in, out for 2016

Local home furnishing stores report darker wood is in

DATE: Jan 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Real estate market cools

WASHINGTON – Fewer people signed contracts to purchase homes in November, as the real estate market appears to have cooled after sales gains for much of 2015. The National Associa...

DATE: Jan 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Couple learns to make do in smaller living space

Move to D.C. requires lots of downsizing

DATE: Jan 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

First home sells in Silverview community

14 units offer main-level living near town

DATE: Jan 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Home prices in U.S. rose 5.5 percent

WASHINGTON – Steady job growth, low mortgage rates and tight inventories helped fuel rising U.S. home prices in October. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price inde...

DATE: Jan 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Apartment construction is up, but they being built for the wealthy

Last year in America, the median asking rent for a newly built apartment was an astonishing $1,372 a month. That’s about 50 percent more than the typical rent nationwide. It marked a dramati...

DATE: Dec 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

U.S. home prices rise in October, housing agency says

U.S. home prices surpassed their 2007 peak in October as the improving job market stirred competition for a dwindling inventory of listings, a Federal Housing Finance Agency index showed. ...

DATE: Dec 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business