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Attorneys for an apartment management company owned by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner say recent charges by Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh that it used “unfair or deceptive” rental practices at properties across the Baltimore region represent a legal overreach and “political attack.”

Maryland regulators are still having trouble keeping tabs on how many rental housing units have hazardous lead paint, state auditors have found, even as the number of homes and apartments they must oversee to protect children from lead poisoning expands dramatically.

A Pennsylvania-based firm and its multinational joint venture partner paid $77.25 million in December for a nearly 800-unit apartment complex in Reisterstown, expanding their already sizable Maryland holdings.

Havre de Grace residents, many of them from the Bulle Rock community, filled every seat in the City Council chambers in order to say their piece Monday about a proposed city ordinance that, if approved, would reduce water and sewer connection fees for the developers of the neighboring Greenway Farm apartment community.

I've done the Baltimore apartment search twice in the little over a year I've been here. By no means does this make me an expert. But I do feel that I've gained a little insight since I came in blind to this new city with a short window of time to find a place to live.

Harford Family House, marking 25 years since it was founded, remains the only transitional housing in Harford County that ¿can accommodate a family with a dad,¿ says Joyce Duffy, executive director and CEO.

Phialdelphia-based Delancey Street Capital said Tuesday it bought the Sail Cloth Factory apartments near the University of Maryland for $12.9 million last month, the firm's fourth acquisition in the area.

As successes mount in the Station North neighborhood, community leaders are setting their sights on another long-promised part of the neighborhood's renaissance — market-rate apartments.

The Howard County Housing Commission plans to purchase a 200-unit mixed-income residential apartment complex in Columbia's village of Kings Contrivance, according to the commission's top official.

Tenants at Sage Management apartments and townhouses in Baltimore filed a class action lawsuit Friday against the property management company for allegedly charging illegal late fees, according to a compliant filed in the city's Circuit Court.

An analysis by the Urban Institute found a yawning gap between the number of low-income renter households and affordable units available in every jurisdiction in the country.

Analysts expect a solid housing market in 2014, in the Baltimore area and nationally, after a year in which the battered housing market got on firmer footing.

When the North Avenue Gateway apartments opened formally last month on a corner of the city infamous for drugs, vacant homes and the 1991 slaying of a 6-year-old girl, so many people wanted to live there, property managers had to turn them away.

Hopkins plans to anchor mixed-use complex at 3200 St. Paul St., in Charles Village with a pharmacy, not a grocery, as many resident feared and protested earlier this year.

The commission is finalizing this month a contract to acquire Verona Apartments, a 251-unit complex located off Whiteacre Road, for $39.5 million, according to Tom Carbo, the county's director of Housing and Community Services. Carbo said one of the reasons the commission purchased the complex was to generate revenue for the commission, whose funding from the federal government is waning.

Increased interest in urban living and a tight supply have made Baltimore's rental market extremely competitive in recent years.

A Harford County zoning hearing examiner has issued a ruling supporting a controversial project to build 198 apartments in Bel Air South

Apartment renters should be aware that rental properties in Howard County will be assessed for the stormwater management tax as commercial properties, which will be based on the measurement of impervious surfaces.

The old low-income Hilltop Housing project in Ellicott City has given way to another world: new apartments in facades of soft-colored siding and stone, and a recreation center with the latest in exercise gear, including a retractable-roof indoor swimming pool.

After more than a decade of cajoling, legal wrangling and building, the residences at Uplands, the $238 million residential community in Southwest Baltimore, are coming to life.

In what lawyers say is a record amount in a bedbug case, an Anne Arundel County jury awarded the 69-year-old woman $800,000 this week. Most of that amount – $650,000, which is more than she sought – was in punitive damages.

More than 1,300 unmarried junior enlisted soldiers, sailors and other service members drive into Fort Meade every work day because they don't live on post — can't, actually, because the barracks are full and other homes there are for families.

Nine hours of testimony, spread over three weeks, wrapped up Wednesday evening in a long-running Harford County zoning appeals case for a 198-unit apartment complex planned in the Bel Air South area.

Hazel Sanders and her Rottweiler service dog, Jurneé, are preparing to move into an apartment she can afford after the management company agreed to drop objections based on the Maryland Court of Appeals decision ...

The Howard County Housing Commission has bought land on U.S. 1 for an apartment complex for homeless people, part of a broad strategy meant to end homelessness in the county.

Several developers have announced plans in the last few days to convert downtown commercial buildings into market-rate apartments, giving new life to buildings that were being underutilized.

Hazel Sanders depends on her Rottweiler, Jurnee, to get her out walking, which she needs for a disabling knee condition, and to help her up if she falls. Now, the dog could stand between Sanders and a subsidized apartment. Apartment managers won't allow a service animal exception.

The average renter of a high-end apartment in Baltimore paid $1.92 per square foot of space every month, according to a study of third quarter numbers recently released by commercial real estate research firm Delta Associates.

The rental market is fertile ground for con artists. Many rental scams target tenants, but landlords can be victimized, too.

The Vargas came to Baltimore with almost nothing and, with the help of a local church, built a life based on work and faith

The Baltimore metro region had the best July in six years for contracts signed to buy homes, according to data released Friday by an affiliate of the region's multiple listing service.

Residents of Elm Avenue and 38th Street are seeking permit parking and garage spaces included in the rents for town houses that are being built near them as part of redevelopment of the Rotunda mall.

Realtors, developers see some increase from 'the bottom' of the market

Developers unveil preliminary plans for $100 million Town Center project in Columbia

College graduates face high unemployment, depressed wages and loads of debt.

Laurel Realty Co. plans to demolish the 80-unit Laurel Gardens apartment development, which includes townhouses on Phillip Powers Drive, and build a new, larger complex with 114 units and its own parking lot, a plan that will displace current tenants of the affordable housing units.

Developers have proposed building a $19 million apartment tower in an area slated for revitalization on downtown's west side that would include 92 affordable and market-rate rentals but require city and state tax subsidies.

Old Town residents react to Laurel Realty Co.'s plan to replace apartment buildings.