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Real Estate Matters: Can you report a bad home inspector?
A seller finds an inspector's actions suspicious. What are the seller's options?
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Judge approves foreclosure sale of Kevin Spacey’s Baltimore home
A Baltimore judge approved the foreclosure sale of Kevin Spacey’s home overlooking the Inner Harbor in August.
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Baltimore’s historic Caulkers’ Houses make their long anticipated debut in Fells Point
The homes are remarkable because they housed African-American families. The men were engaged as ship caulkers, the backbone of the ship caulking trade industry in the 19th century.
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Ask the Builder: Three-season room challenges
Three-season rooms, if not built correctly, can create many problems you'd never imagine.
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Real Estate Matters: Does paying property taxes give you the rights of ownership?
Adverse possession does allow you to become the owner of a property if you openly and notoriously make use of someone else’s land, you pay the real estate taxes on that land, and you use the land exclusively for at least 21 years.
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Hot property: Fully renovated arts and crafts-style home in Baltimore lists for $925,000
Sometimes an original requires an overhaul. And that’s what happened when a Baltimore property manager acquired this century-old home on a corner lot near Roland Park at auction.
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‘Anti-chump’ clause makes Ravens a silent party to Orioles lease talks
An so-called anti-chump clause in the leases of Baltimore's two pro sports teams makes the Ravens a significant, if silent, party to the Orioles’ negotiations with the state.
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Latest data on home sales for Baltimore region shows fewer sales and listings, higher prices
Median home prices in the Baltimore region continue to climb despite the highest mortgage rates in more than two decades, according to a new report from the real estate firm Bright MLS. Sales meanwhile are off by about 22%.
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Maryland plans to spend $1.2 billion on stadium improvements for the Orioles and Ravens. How much money is that really?
The $1.2 billion for stadium improvements, which will likely cost the state more than $2 billion after interest, is an unparalleled infusion of taxpayer money into Baltimore.
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Max N. Wiener, project manager for McCormick & Co. properties and World War II pilot, dies
Max Nicholas Wiener, former project manager for McCormick properties and World War II pilot, died of cardiac arrest Aug. 30 at Mercy Ridge Assisted Living.
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Developer with rocky financial past joins Baltimore County government
A developer who was at the center of a dispute over a Dundalk recreation center a decade ago and has a history of bankruptcy recently joined Baltimore County government to help oversee its COVID funding programs.
Ask the Builder: How to minimize maintenance on your exterior wood
You can often avoid the expensive process of replacing wood trim by simply protecting it from the ravages of water.
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Electrical fire at Camden Yards on day Orioles played ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ disrupted complex’s cooling system
An electrical fire at Camden Yards melted two of the complex's three chillers, requiring the stadium authority to "get creative" to cool Oriole Park and M&T Bank Stadium in the following days.
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Real Estate Matters: What happens when an association hasn’t enforced a rule for years?
What does the law say about a homeowners or condominium association rule that has not been enforced for years?
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Ask the Builder: How not to waste thousands of dollars on home improvement projects
To help prevent you from losing vast sums of money, I’m going to share a few recent tales as well as my autopsy results. Often there’s a common thread. It’s my hope you’ll soon see that you need to hold back the trust you place in contractors.
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Real Estate Matters: Homeowner confused by lender’s request for payment after sale
When you paid off the loan and closed in August, the payoff letter from the second lender should have picked up any interest that you had not paid on your loan.
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Hot property: Well-designed Crownsville home is full of time-saving features and sits on over acre for $1.3 million
This thoughtfully designed house in the Woodlands at Plum Creek community in Anne Arundel comes equipped with modern conveniences to make the new owners’ lives easier.
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Orioles talks can produce plan to redevelop Camden Yards area and a stadium lease, Gov. Wes Moore says
Gov. Wes Moore says the state's stadium lease negotiations with the Orioles can produce a redevelopment roadmap that benefits Baltimore and Maryland.
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Where did Wes Moore go? In first months, governor crisscrossed Maryland, spent time in D.C. and called Obama
In his first six months in office, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has traveled all over the state, spent a lot of time in Washington and even made international business trips.
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Moore officials express confidence in Orioles’ lease deal, but won’t offer details or status of negotiations
Three officials in Gov. Wes Moore’s administration say they're confident of reaching a deal to keep the Baltimore Orioles in the city “for decades to come.”
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Ask the Builder: Will your DIY project kill or injure yourself or others?
Had this structure not been seen by the inspector, there’s a very good chance someone could have been killed or severely injured when it collapsed in the next windstorm or snowstorm.
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Real Estate Matters: Reader shares positive experience selling by owner, but it might not work for everyone
Selling by owner can be done, one reader points out.
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Hot property: Anne Arundel contemporary home with saltwater pool on 2 wooded acres lists for $2 million
The main living room features an expansive 20-foot ceiling, bamboo-plank flooring and wall of windows with lush green forest views.
Ask the Builder: How to make your asphalt shingles last 50 years
Eight years ago I was in the middle of a roof replacement project on my own home. My 30-year warranted asphalt shingles looked like they were 50 years old. I vowed to get to the bottom of the issue.
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Real Estate Matters: Family of man with ‘slight case of dementia’ fights over guardianship, rights to assets
What happens should a godfather with a slight case of dementia die? Do all of his belongings go to the state? His sister obtained one lawyer and his nephew obtained another. Everyone is at war and no one seems to be helping him.
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Hot property: Former BSO music director Marin Alsop puts 19th-century church condo on the market
Marin Alsop, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Laureate, has put the Baltimore condominium she owns in a former stone church on the market.
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Looking to buy a home in the Baltimore area? Good luck finding one.
Last month, fewer than 2,900 homeowners in the region decided to put their homes up for sale, according to a new report from the real estate firm Bright MLS.
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Auction postponed for Johns Hopkins’ childhood home in Gambrills
The scheduled sale Tuesday of the Gambrills childhood home of Johns Hopkins, the Baltimore investor, philanthropist and university namesake, was postponed as current and former owners wrangle over the property in court.
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Westin Annapolis hotel sold for $51 million to firm led by Naval Academy graduate
District Hospitality Partners, led by Fred W. Malek, a 1988 graduate of the academy, purchased the 225-room hotel at 100 Westgate Circle on July 19.
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How a once mighty grain elevator became a residential showplace overlooking the Baltimore harbor
A century ago, a mammoth structure was just taking shape on the banks of the Patapsco River near Fort McHenry. Today that structure has a different name, Silo Point, and identity.