'I have an airplane hangar in my front yard'
Like so many Americans across the nation, Julie Clark commutes to work. But she doesn't drive, walk or even take a bus or train. Instead, she flies a plane.
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May 17, 2012
The Facebook effect on San Francisco real estate
The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data. It is edited by Julian Hebron, a retail mortgage lender who runs the San Francisco branches of RPM Mortgage.
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May 17, 2012
Mortgage rates hit record low again
Buying a home just got even cheaper as interest rates on both 30-year and 15-year-fixed-rate mortgages set record lows for the third week in a row.
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May 17, 2012
Foreclosures fall to lowest level since 2007
Foreclosure filings in April fell for the third straight month to the lowest level since July 2007.
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May 17, 2012
Home buying at most affordable level in decades
Buying a home has reached its most affordable level in more than two decades.
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May 16, 2012
Mortgage delinquencies drop to 4-year low
The percentage of borrowers who have dropped behind on their mortgage payments fell to a four-year low in the first three months of 2012, a bankers' group said Wednesday.
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May 16, 2012
George Lucas proposes affordable housing plan
The film emperor may be striking back. For 25 years, filmmaker George Lucas tried to persuade his Marin County, Calif., neighbors to let him build a digital production studio on his ranch there, but the area's residents thwarted the plan.
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May 15, 2012
BofA offering up to $30K for short sales
Bank of America is offering some struggling homeowners payments of up to $30,000 if they sell their homes in a short sale and avoid ending up in foreclosure.
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May 15, 2012
Park Ave. co-op sells for record $52.5M
A recent sale in New York's famed 740 Park Avenue apartment building marked the highest price ever paid for a co-op in the city's history.
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May 11, 2012
Artist's habitat in the Jersey woodlands
Ricky Boscarino is a sculptor, painter and jewelry maker whose biggest art project for the past 23 years has been his home on five quiet acres.
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