Today’s story about the housing market comes with a nifty searchable database of home sales and prices for all ZIP codes in the Baltimore metro area that had more than a handful of sales in the first half of 2007 and 2008. Wonk or not, you might like to try it out. And here’s a [...]
Across the United States, neighborhoods are littered with an estimated 900,000 vacant homes, the result of foreclosures, bank repossessions and abandonment. And with defaults rising nationwide, the number is expected to grow well into next year. Such blight is contagious. Empty houses pose fire and health hazards, attract crime and prolong the housing slump by [...]
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