Here’s your chance to catch up with news included to inform, enlighten and perhaps even entertain you. To read about The Big Apple, check out the other of today’s posts and look for Out and About on Tuesday. And have a very happy Independence Day!
Estate sale of Patricia Neal’s Yorkville co-op sells for $70,000 below asking price
Retired slugger’s Tribeca triplex finds buyer after three years
Model, actress, director’s ex cuts Manhattan link with sale of penthouse for $3.05 million
Terrace presumably enchants actress who buys $1.75 million penthouse in Greenwich Village
Right-winger turns left, leaving Manhattan to rent in Texas
Couple fulfills their California dreams with purchase of $6.5 million Los Angeles home
With sale of her Beverly Hills estate, actress just goes without it
Late crusty screen legend’s estate in Old Seabrook is listed again, this time for $28 million
Single-family home prices inch up in April but stay 31.8 percent below peak with an analyst’s take on what it all means
Pending home sales rise in May from prior month and prior year
Inventory of homes for sale shrinks 8.5 percent from June to June
CoreLogic records second month-to-month gain in prices
Serious delinquency rates decline in May
10 biggest lenders turn down borrowers with increasing frequency
Mortgage fraud reports mushroom 31 percent in a year
2.7 percent decline in volume of loan applications reflects persistently low demand
Mortgage delinquency rates slightly decreased in May
Rates hold steady for 30-year mortgage, ARMs at record low of 3.25 percent
Retiree says he lost all his belongings in foreclosure blunder
Architects’ survey suggests slight increase in demand for McMansions
Groupon and its ilk fail to embrace deals related to real estate transactions
Foreigners just can’t get enough of the U.S.
Apartment dwellers can farm, too
Paint the town. . . ‘Wild Salmon?’
Outstanding wall coverings become popular again
Freddie Mac economist expects ‘gradual improvement’ in housing this year, especially rental market
But Radar Logic data firm maintains that housing’s recovery is ‘a long way off’
Market is in a ‘fragile state’ that is easier to break than to fix, says Pimco bigwig
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