real estate buyers

• Features

Home marketing in a digital age: what really matters

Twenty years ago, if potential homebuyers wanted to check out the inside of a home for sale, they almost always had to get in the car and head to an open house. Photos were limited. Videos were nonexistent. Today, things have changed ¿ and they continue to evolve.

• Maryland

Northrop Team of Long & Foster Real Estate receives industry awards

The Creig Northrop Team of Long & Foster Real Estate, with offices in Sykesville, received five Maryland Building Industry Association MAX Marketing Achievement Awards.

• Maryland

Carroll-born realtor hosts new reality show

"Waterfront House Hunting" combines house-buying with watersports

• Property

New Town Village Center sells for $31.7 million

A large Illinois real estate firm closed Tuesday on an Owings Mills Shopping Center, paying nearly $31.7 million — about 40 percent more than when the property last sold three years ago.

By Natalie Sherman

May 7, 2015

• Howard County

Inside Elaine Northrop's palatial home

Real estate maven opens the doors to her home in The Preserve neighborhood in Ellicott City.

• Harford

Bill Martin, Charlie Hiner compete for Havre de Grace mayor seat

There's going to be a new mayor in town come May, and the battle for the future of Havre de Grace is on.

• Real Estate

On East Coast, Baltimore stands out for affordability

Among big cities along the East Coast, Baltimore puts out an enticing WELCOME sign for first-time home buyers.

By Arthur Hirsch

Apr 6, 2015

• Opinion

Short sales need a tax break

Homeowners with mortgages bigger than the value of their property deserve a tax break

• Baltimore City

Belair-Edison: Fighting for a neighborhood for 'the middle'

Activists have fought to defend the working-class Northeast Baltimore community of Belair-Edison against the forces that have crushed other neighborhoods -- blockbusting and white flight, predatory lending and foreclosures, a loss of blue collar jobs, and crime. Unlike failing city neighborhoods, Belair-Edison has maintained high rates of homeownership, even as it transitioned from majority white to majority black in the 1990s. Experts say offering affordable housing to working- and middle-class

By Yvonne Wenger

Mar 29, 2015

• Real Estate Buyers

Union Wharf apartments sell for $121.5 million

A Delaware-registered buyer this month purchased the Union Wharf apartments in Fells Point for the eye-popping price of $121.5 million.

By Natalie Sherman

Mar 26, 2015

• Baltimore County

Fairways at Towson apartment complex sold

The 831-unit Fairways at Towson apartment complex has been sold to Tryko Partners, a private equity real estate group based in Brick, N.J., and the same company that owns Loch Raven Village.

• Opinion

What's in her shopping bag?

Susan Reimer on a candidate's wife's shopping habits.

By Susan Reimer

Feb 24, 2015

• Business

Home sales show best January in eight years

Home sales in the Baltimore area had their best January in eight years, and all signs point to a strong spring market, real estate analysts said. Numbers released by the RealEstate Business Intelligence and the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors — reflecting slightly different spans of time — show January sales up by 18.4 and nearly 17 percent respectively compared with a year before. The sales figure was the best since 2007, RBI reported.

By Arthur Hirsch

Feb 10, 2015

• Opinion

Wall Street's threat to the American middle class

The middle class can't be saved unless Wall Street is tamed, writes Robert B. Reich.

• Harford

Feb. 5 auction of old school headquarters in Bel Air generates curiosity

Bel Air town officials say they hope the upcoming auction of the former school headquarters building property on Gordon Street will finally settle the vacant building's fate.

• Opinion

Obama's middle class 'help' is useless

From housing to community college tuition, this 'middle class' retiree sees only harm in the president's tax proposals

• Maryland

Realtors foundation gives to local Habitat for Humanity

The Carroll County Association of Realtors Foundation presented Habitat for Humanity of Carroll County with a check for $1,625 to support Habitat's Union Crossing town home project in Westminster.

• Real Estate

More private lenders looking at real estate

Banks pulled back on lending to real estate investors after the housing crash and recession, slowing real estate activity, but a new crop of private lenders has popped up in an effort to fill the gap.

• Baltimore City Paper

No Trivia: Baltimore music is better than all of the other music

• Baltimore County

Catonsville resident sees the whole picture to save open space

Klaus Philipsen sees improving the quality of life in region by way of smart growth development.

• Homes

Monthly home sales up in Baltimore region, though prices dip

The number of home sales and new listings was up last month from a year earlier, but home prices overall continued to fall, according to a monthly real estate analysis.

• Baltimore City

Longtime fans are sold on Alex Cooper Auctioneers

Alex Cooper Auctioneers in Towson is celebrating it 90th year and is planning a renovation of more than $1 million.

• Property

Seasons at Bel Air sells for $80 million

A Bel Air apartment complex that spent years in receivership has sold for $80 million, the brokerage firm that worked on the deal said last week.

• Real Estate

Five questions with EMG President Nestor Benavides

The president of Hunt Valley-based EMG, which provides property due diligence, project management and capital planning services, chats with The Baltimore Sun about the firm's evolution.

• Howard County

Staged to sell: Advice from Howard County home stagers

Thinking of selling your home? Your home¿s initial appeal online determines its ability to compete with thousands of other offerings. Enter the home stager. Howard County real estate agents and buyers have been calling on their services for years. Think of a window dresser or set designer, and you¿re on the right track.

• Opinion

Biography set to detail life of ex-banker Ed Hale – including CIA stint

A biography of former Baltimore banker Ed Hale is set to detail his rise from a Sparrows Point upbringing to exploits in real estate, sports business and banking – working covertly for the CIA and surviving plane crashes along the way.

• Real Estate Agents

Navigating the world of real estate

• Real Estate Buyers

Investors to buy Cassidy Turley, create global firm

A group of investors plans to buy real estate firm Cassidy Turley and combine it with DTZ Holdings, creating a global real estate network, Cassidy Turley said Monday. The Cassidy Turley brand launched in 2010, roughly two years after four groups, including former Baltimore-based Colliers Pinkard, joined to create a larger real estate network.

• Finance

Hardesty Capital Management moves to Hunt Valley

Boutique investment firm Hardesty Capital Management moved this month from its longtime home in Mount Vernon to a new office in Hunt Valley, which it said offers more modern conveniences and room to grow, while being closer to its customer base of wealthy Maryland families.

• Baltimore City Paper

Goods and Services

• Maryland

Eldersburg Public Library Sept. 3-9

• Foreclosures

Institutions turning homes to rentals elsewhere steer clear in Baltimore

Large companies looking to turn a profit by renting single-family homes have been stirring activity in markets across the country for about two years. But not in the Baltimore region.

• Property

Efforts to help renters become homeowners continue

As high prices, rising rents and tight credit requirements continue to make homeownership difficult for many families, some private and nonprofit developers are trying to find ways to make homeownership more accessible for renters.

• Property

Sinclair Broadcast CEO embroiled in lease dispute with farmer

A simmering feud over who controls a Baltimore County farm — its new CEO owner or its longtime tenant — boiled over when the CEO recently had the farmer's corn crop plowed under in an effort to remediate the land.

• Maryland

Eldersburg Public Library Aug. 20-26

• Maryland

Carroll's Yesteryears: Research reveals character of Greek ancestors

• Students

Mount Washington school redefines education

At the Arts and Ideas Sudbury School, children take their education into their own hands — literally.

• Real Estate Buyers

Home building struggles, some worry, for some time to come

The construction of new homes is lagging around the country and Maryland is no exception. But the state-wide numbers mask resilience in one key area — already well-developed suburban counties close to the major urban centers.

• Land Price

Neighborhood Beat: Tips for buying your first home

Danielle Moser provides useful tips for first-time home-buyers.

• Harford

Residential development in Harford will never be what it once was [Editorial]

The boomtown days when the Route 24 corridor sprouted thousands of houses a year are very much in the rear view mirror.

• Real Estate Buyers

At Heritage Fair, families celebrate Dundalk

The waterfront community in Baltimore County is the subject of a $1.3 million re-branding campaign by the nonprofit Dundalk Renaissance Corp., which is intended to highlight Dundalk's affordable housing and neighborly atmosphere as a way to attract new families.

• Real Estate

Oracle to buy Columbia's Micros Systems in $5.3 billion deal

Silicon Valley software giant Oracle Corp. announced a deal Monday to buy Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, eyeing the Columbia firm for its niche supplying technology to hotels, restaurants and retailers around the world.

• Maryland

Library Schedule (June 18-24)

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore Living

• Baltimore County

A new brand for Dundalk

In a new marketing campaign, the Dundalk Renaissance Corp. touts the community's 43 miles of waterfront, its history and its proximity to city attractions: It's a 10-minute drive to the Canton Crossing retail development, 15 to Camden Yards.

• Maryland

Library Schedules (June 10-16)

• Features

HGTV takes 'House Hunters' to Baltimore on Wednesday

The episode will feature a couple looking for a home around Canton, Fells Point and Highlandtown.

• Baltimore City Paper

At Auction

• Baltimore City Paper

Steven J.R. Blackwell Sentenced to 20 Years

• Baltimore City Paper

Mortgage Modifications Redefaulting at Increasing Rate