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John Downs spent almost three decades putting together one of the top agricultural and ranching operations in the Southeast.

Now, as he looks to scale back and concentrate on his bull breeding business, almost 10,000 acres of land in the Florida Panhandle is up for auction.

The property — including a pond on the National Register of Historic Places, a haunted bridge, nine houses and a large-scale cattle operation — can be bid on until Oct. 24.

Downs began assembling the property in 1992…

A look at the top single-family home sales from the third quarter show that Boulder prices continue to be dominant, with five properties in the county cracking the top 10 most expensive deals across metro Denver from the past three months.

The top sale of the third quarter is a 5,075-square-foot, three-bed, five-bath home near Central Boulder, just west of the University of Colorado Boulder.

The home, at 2135 Knollwood Drive, was listed for $7.5 million and sold in September for $7.2 million. Just…

My grandmother’s passport listed her height at four feet, eleven and a half inches. The extra half inch was generous. By most measures, my little Greek yiayia was just that — little; an underdog.

Liberty Paterakis Tsakalos emigrated to Baltimore with her family at age eight in 1928, exchanging a life on the Greek island of Chios for the rowhouses of Highlandtown.

A member of Patterson Park High School’s first graduating class, she helped found H&S Bakery in 1943 shoulder-to-shoulder with…

What are the wealthiest ZIP codes in Nashville?

We ranked Nashville's ZIP codes by median household income. To view the 25 wealthiest, and see which one tops the list, check out the slideshow with this story.

For the rest of Nashville's wealthiest ZIP codes, take a look at this week's print edition of the Nashville Business Journal. The full list is available in print and includes information about per capita income, population, households, households with $200,000 or greater median household income…

After more than two decades of planning, apartments are finally set to arrive at the Walnut Creek BART station.

Developers have started construction on the first 358 homes along with 14,500 square feet of retail as part of the first phase of the $380 million project. The 16-acre site is slated for a total of 596 homes and 26,000 square feet of retail.

The long-awaited project will bring a significant amount of dense housing next to transit, where it makes sense, said Lauren Seaver, vice president…

Lawyers say PG&E’s bankruptcy process in California is pre-empting the claims of tens of thousands who suffered losses in fires linked to its equipment.

Capstone Collegiate Communities LLC, a student housing developer based in Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta developer Integral Group, formed a partnership. They are co-developers of the project.

A Capitol Hill office building owned by Colorado’s Public Employee Retirement Association has sat unoccupied for about a decade, The Denver Post has learned — an irresponsibly long time that represents millions in lost potential revenue, real estate experts say.

Alex Burness, The Denver PostA building owned by PERA at 1300 Logan St. in Denver’s Capitol Hill has not been occupied for a decade.The 40,000-square-foot, five-floor building, which sits at 1300 Logan St. near the Capitol, would be worth about $8 million in a sale, according to a city appraisal, and is being shopped for lease at $29 per square foot, or about $1.2 million annually.

PERA manages the retirement fund for some 600,000 current and former public employees and retirees. Its portfolio has suffered of late, losing $1.8 billion on investments in 2018. Any loss costs the workers who pay into PERA and the retirees who receive benefits.

“There’s no reason whatsoever” for the building to languish so long, said Stephen Teb..

Autumn’s chill has come early again to metro Denver’s housing market, with the pace of sales in September down sharply from August and median prices gliding gently lower.

The number of homes and condos sold in September in metro Denver fell 20.2% from August, but remain up 2.2% year-over-year, according to a monthly update from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.

That decline in sales wasn’t as severe as the 28.2% drop between August and September last year, which confirmed the end of what had been a strong seller’s market.

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Jill Schafer, chair of the DMAR Market Trends Committee, which puts together the Market Trends Report, said the market last month was the most competitive that sellers have seen in a September since 2013.

But she dismissed calls that buyers now have the upper hand.

“There have been changes, but we have not shifted to a buyer’s market. Let m..

A flame-scarred thrift shop that for the past three years has been sitting boarded up on a prime piece of real estate along Tennyson Street in northwest Denver is expected to change hands in the coming days.

Some in the neighborhood are apprehensive that the unidentified buyer could turn a corner that for generations has provided a wallet-friendly place for people to shop into another stack of condos or apartments.

Green Door Furniture has been closed since November 2016 when a fire broke out in a portion of the single-story, brick building at the southwest corner of Tennyson and West 41st Avenue in the Berkeley neighborhood.

On Sept. 21, the shop’s boarded-over front door creaked open and passersby were invited in to pick over stereo equipment, piles of tools, lamps and other items that survived the fire, some of the merchandise still covered in soot.

A box filled with buttons from Ross Perot’s 1992 presidential campaign was going for $10. On the south end of the building, boards ..