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• Rentals

Lead-paint oversight of rental housing faulted

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.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Jan 18, 2015

• Property

Preserve at Owings Crossing sells for $77.25 million

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.

By Natalie Sherman

Jan 13, 2015

• Harford

Havre de Grace hearing on Greenway Farm plans draws angry crowd

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.

• Rentals

An unofficial guide to Baltimore apartment hunting

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.

By Ellen Fishel

Oct 29, 2014

• Harford

No dad left behind at Harford Family House

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.

• Rentals

Sail Cloth Factory apartments sell for $12.9M

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.

• Rentals

Station North looks for apartments

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.

• Howard County

Howard Co. Housing Commission to buy Columbia Commons

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.

• Baltimore City Paper

Hottie Property

• Baltimore City Paper

More Apartments, Less Parking, but 1621 Bank St. Is Not to Be Demolished

• Baltimore City Paper

Judge Calls Out Prisoners Aid Executive Director

• Maryland

Windsor Mill woman charged with multiple counts of identity fraud

• Maryland

Fire damages part of Gamber home Monday

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore is about to sell off its public housing. Someone is going to make money-and that's the plan.

• Maryland

Report shows affordable housing out of reach for many Carroll renters

• Baltimore City

Class action lawsuit alleges Sage Management charged illegal fees

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.

• Rentals

Shortage of housing for poorest families grows

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.

• Maryland

Dean Minnich: Middle class engine needs stoking

• Real Estate

The forecast for housing in 2014: Higher prices, rates

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.

• Rentals

North Avenue Gateway apartments build hope in West Baltimore

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.

• Baltimore City

Pharmacy eyed as anchor of planned development in Charles Village

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.

• Howard County

County's purchase of apartments concerns Oakland Mills residents

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.

• Rentals

Baltimore's rentals in high demand, fueling building boom

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

• Harford

Harford zoning hearing examiner rules in favor of Evergreen apartments

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

• Howard County

Fairness demands landlords pay stormwater fee per unit [Letter]

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.

• Howard County

New community center opens in Ellicott City

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.

• Maryland

Timber Ridge History

• Rentals

Progress in Uplands community is gaining steam

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.

• Anne Arundel

Bedbug lawsuits on the increase

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.

• Maryland

Tom Harbold: Minimum should be a livable wage

• Rentals

Fort Meade apartments a first — probably not a last

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.

• Harford

Testimony ends in zoning case for apartments planned near Bel Air

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.

• Howard County

Rottweiler dispute resolved in Howard

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 ...

• Howard County

Howard County maps apartments for the homeless

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.

• Rentals

Developers eager to convert downtown office buildings to residences

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.

• Rentals

Neighbors concerned with homeless housing project

• Howard County

Woman with service dog could be barred from apartment

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.

• Rentals

Baltimore priciest place to rent in metro region

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.

• Real Estate

Beware the pernicious rental scam

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

• Opinion

One family's labor of love

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

• Foreclosures

Baltimore has best July in six years for home contract signings

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.

• Rentals

Permit parking, garage spaces sought on streets near Rotunda mall

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.

• Homes

Harford new homes market 'just coming out a little'

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

• Baltimore City Paper

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• Latest

Developers unveil plans for $100 million project in Columbia

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

• Jobs and Workplace

Life after college: high unemployment and depressed wages

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

• Rentals

Laurel Gardens to be razed for 114 new units

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.

• Latest

West Side apartment tower proposal sent to mayor

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.

• Rentals

Old Town: Residents react to plans to replace their dwellings

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

• Latest

Broken relationship with city threatens Prisoners Aid's future

One of Baltimore City's oldest social service agencies is behind on multiple mortgages and has had the power cut off in its offices and in a men's shelter it operates – and it says the city is to blame.