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Tradition Homes, a new homebuilder with veteran experience in the North Texas market, has land positions in four masterplanned communities and 200 lots under contract as the company ramps up to start sales next month.

It took three years, but Patrick Kane has finally sold his Lake Erie waterfront mansion.

Kane, the South Buffalo native and Chicago Blackhawks star, sold his 5,878-square-foot house on Old Lakeshore Road in Hamburg, New York. According to documents filed in the Erie County Clerk’s office, Kane received $2.5 million for the house.

The buyer was listed at Butterbean 2729, according to county documents, with a return to the Shaw & Shaw law firm in Hamburg.

Kane paid $2.86 million for the house…

A six-bedroom Victorian homestead built in Historic Lutherville during the Civil War is heading to the auction block Oct. 25.

The three-story house at 319 Melancthon Ave. has a distinct front porch, a large yard and bright yellow exterior. It will be auctioned by JHL Auctioneers in as-is condition at 11 a.m. with a preview at 10 a.m., said JHL General Manager Julie Van Tilburg.

Bidding will start at $500,000 and a $25,000 deposit is required, Van Tilburg said Tuesday.

The estate sits on 1.42-acres…

Orange and Seminole counties' home sales have been strong so far this year. The average home sales price for those two counties in second-quarter 2019 was $301,439, up 3.9% from the first quarter's $290,103.

Back in May, we revealed the first-quarter 2019 stats for our “Hottest Neighborhoods” series. During that two-part installment, we revealed the 25 most-expensive neighborhoods and the most popular ZIP codes around town according to first-quarter 2019 home sale data.

Today we are releasing…

Lindsey Vonn’s home in Vail is for sale, priced at $6 million.

The Olympic gold medalist bought the 7,042-square-foot home in 2014 and called it “a place to come home to where I feel really relaxed and cut off from everything,” during a People magazine interview with Elizabeth Leonard.

Since then, Vonn retired from ski racing and became engaged to P.K. Subban, a three-time NHL all-star defenseman who was traded from the Nashville Predators to the New Jersey Devils in June.

“She will be spending more time in New Jersey around P.K., focusing on his new role with the Devils,” said Gil Fancher, managing broker at Vail Real Estate Center, of Vonn’s decision to sell her retreat in East Vail. “This home has been a very private and essential space for Lindsey to decompress and enjoy time alone and with friends and family during her reign as a world champion ski racer.”

The home located on a cul-de-sac at 5194 Main Gore Drive South is surrounded by the Vail Mountains that Vonn used as train..

The Federal Housing Administration is making it easier for first-time condo buyers, often with less than perfect credit, to get mortgages.

The new condominium approval rule, which goes into effect Oct. 15, will help reduce regulatory barriers. For example, the new rule will allow certain individual condominium units to be eligible for FHA mortgage insurance even if the condominium project is not FHA approved. (The condo unit needs to be in a completed project for approval.)

The change introduces a single-unit approval process making it easier for individual condominium units to be eligible for FHA-insured financing. It also extends the recertification requirement for approved condominium projects from two to three years, and allows more mixed-use projects to be eligible for FHA insurance.

Condos under construction Wednesday at 825 Crisman Dr. in Longmont. (Photo by Jeremy Papasso/Staff Photographer)The FHA’s backing makes the projects more marketable, said Brian Sullivan, spokesman ..

John Leyba, The Denver PostNicole Solazzo on Thursday puts the final touches on key lime pies for the holiday weekend at Marczyk Fine Foods in Denver.Upscale grocery chain Marczyk’s Fine Foods has announced it will be the new main attraction inside a former Safeway building near the corner of Happy Canyon Road and East Hampden Avenue in southeast Denver.

Marczyk’s, which bills itself as “Denver’s favorite neighborhood market,” has two locations in the city, one at 770 E. 17th Ave. and another at 5100 E. Colfax Ave. It got started on 17th in 2002. With this location in the Southmoore Park neighborhood, it is pushing into new turf.

“It is certainly new territory for Marczyk’s to locate in the suburbs, but we have been pioneers since the beginning,” chief operating officer Paul Marczyk said in a statement. “We will strive to be the best place to work and shop in our new neighborhood, plus a magnet for people who know and love food.”

Slated to open late next year, according to Tuesday’s..

Under the terms of a proposal expected to land in the Denver planning office this month, a trio of asphalt parking lots on Sherman Street east of downtown could be replaced with the city’s next batch of skyscrapers.

The Dikeou family plans to ask the Denver City Council to rezone a collection of lots it owns north of the state Capitol Building, making them “downtown core” properties free of height restrictions. It’s a major shakeup that would alter the City Park view plane that today caps most buildings along north Sherman at 155 feet high.

In exchange for the right to change one of Denver’s most iconic views with new, tall buildings, the Dikeous would agree to a city mandate that any new skyscrapers built on their lots include affordable housing and would pay for more than a half-million-dollars in sidewalk repairs, new trees and other streetscaping work along Sherman.

Tryba Architects, the Uptown firm spearheading the Dikeous’ rezoning effort, recently presented conceptual plans ..

Austrian food packaging giant Constantia Flexibles is closing its plant in Colmar later this year, and laying off 61 people, according to a filIng with the state's labor department.

Constantia Colmar opened in 1990 at 92 County Line Road and specialized in candy foil: Think foil-wrapped chocolate bars and chewing gum. The company runs a second U.S. location in Blythewood, South Carolina, which opened in 1997.

Constantia Flexibles runs 38 production facilities in 16 countries and employs around…

Department store has been the biggest creditor in Chapter 11 over one of the region's largest malls