Real Estate and Development
- New trouble sign surfaces in housing market struggle
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Updated: 08/21/08 6:37 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Mortgage application volume fell last week to its lowest levels in nearly eight years, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.
- Private student housing planned
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By Sharon Linstedt NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/20/08 7:11 AM
- By fall 2009, Buffalo State College students who are unable to find an on-campus home may be able to tap a private alternative on Tonawanda Street.
- Board delays action on Chef’s drive-thru
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By Sharon Linstedt
NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/20/08 7:05 AM
- Chef’s Restaurant fans will have to wait a few more weeks to learn if they’ll be able get a quick order of spaghetti Parmesan from a drive-thru window.
- Rough times continue for Issa
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By Sharon Linstedt
NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/19/08 6:41 AM
- British developer Bashar Issa, whose development empire has been collapsing due to financial pressures, is now facing physical woes at his only completed project.
- E Square offering ‘home ownership . . . rental income’
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By Sharon Linstedt NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/19/08 6:49 AM
- A trio of townhouses with accompanying rental units is taking shape in downtown Buffalo.
- Regional home sales fell last month
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By Matt Glynn
NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/19/08 6:41 AM
- Home sales in July in Buffalo Niagara declined 2.2 percent from a year ago, while the region’s median and average sale prices each increased.
- College dorm life goes deluxe
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By Melissa Repko NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/17/08 7:15 AM
- A basketball court, tanning beds, fitness machines and a movie theater. Think that sounds like an exclusive club or pricey hotel?
- Rising food costs cause shrinkage in the grocery cart
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By Mike Hughlett
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Updated: 08/17/08 7:26 AM
- CHICAGO — Consumers might not have noticed, but their bottles of Coke are slimming down: The cap on the 20-ounce bottle is a tad smaller these days — and 24 percent lighter.
- Area’s home prices fare well in gains
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By Matt Glynn
NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/15/08 6:47 AM
- Home prices in Buffalo Niagara in the second quarter grew at one of the fastest rates in the country from a year ago, but remained among the most affordable.
- Senecas may slow expansion of casinos
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By Sharon Linstedt NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/15/08 7:01 AM
- The Seneca Gaming Corp. is hinting at a slowdown in its fast-paced expansion efforts, despite a nearly 10 percent rise in its third-quarter net income.
- Wendt moving to Cobblestone area
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By Sharon Linstedt
NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/15/08 6:47 AM
- An Orchard Park metal finishing products company will relocate to Buffalo’s Cobblestone District later this year.
- Changes aim to stimulate purchasing of real estate
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By Brian Meyer
Updated: 08/14/08 8:50 AM
- New steps will be taken to encourage people to buy real estate in Buffalo, city economic developers said Wednesday.
- Foreclosure filings on the rise
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/14/08 7:04 AM
- WASHINGTON — The number of homeowners stung by the dramatic decline in the U. S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by 55 percent compared with the same month a year ago.
- Major Cheektowaga warehouse is sold
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By Sharon Linstedt
NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/13/08 6:54 AM
- A Massachusetts-based real estate investment group has purchased a Cheektowaga distribution center for $4.4 million.
- Bass Pro site will include a canal
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By Sharon Linstedt NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
Updated: 08/13/08 7:37 AM
- The Erie Canal Harbor’s waterborne past will flow into its future, with plans for a major canal/waterway feature on the site where the idle Memorial Auditorium now stands.
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