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While homes continue to be built around Harford County, the local market has a long way to go before it gets to the heights its sustained before the nationwide housing market crash which began in 2007.

James Richardson, director of the Harford County Office of Economic Development, was present at the luncheon event, presenting information about Harford's accomplishments and challenges.

Enrollment in Harford County Public Schools is more than 350 students fewer than last year, based on numbers released by the school system.

All Havre de Grace schools will now have a school resource officer through the end of the school year.

The CEO pay disclosed this year by the 20 largest publicly traded companies in the Baltimore region offers plenty of fodder — as it does every year — to steam the ranks of workers with paychecks that barely budge.

We've found our dream home, and it's time to sell our current one. What could possibly go wrong with that?

The city of Aberdeen is still a couple weeks away from submitting to the state its revised ethics ordinance, which the state rejected earlier this year after it was approved by the city council. The state has a disclosure form and earlier this year required the city of Aberdeen to submit one, which City Manager Doug Miller said he made "easy to follow and administer and met the spirit of the law," but the state said it's wasn't good enough.

The County Council Monday unanimously passed a bill that will prohibit a property owner from obtaining a county rental license if they are more than 30 days behind on their condo association or homeowner association fees.

Corporate Office Properties Trust said Monday it sold two office buildings and land in Rockville for about $48.7 million, part of the Columbia-based real estate investment trust's strategy of selling off non-core assets.

How many people spend more than half their income on housing costs? More than you might think.

He's led the Columbia-based company through two recessions and overseen its growth into a nationally known developer with $5 billion in assets and a specialty in high-security buildings for defense tenants.

Physician turns into 'Dr. Fix-It' to renovate abandoned home

The Anne Arundel County Council is considering a change to a proposed bill that would allow the Millersville crematorium that spurred the legislation to move forward.

A reader charges a Sun report on affordable housing says nothing about the options available to workers in relatively low-paying jobs

The 2010 Harford County Annual Growth Report detailed growth in the county as well as identified one elementary school as over capacity.

A broad swath of workers in the Baltimore region — including those landing jobs in the sector doing the most hiring these days — don't earn enough to afford a home or even to rent a two-bedroom apartment on their salaries alone.

Housing starts are down, but that's not bad news; we can stimulate the economy by improving what we have, rather than adding to the market glut

Over a five year period, the number of black-owned businesses in the Baltimore area grew three times as fast as firms as a whole, statistics released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau show.