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Gingras Thomsen & Wachs, whose work includes civil rights cases such as Bucks player Sterling Brown’s lawsuit against the city of Milwaukee, is opening a 3rd Ward office it will share with a local criminal defense law firm.

Last year, after 25 years working at Seattle land conservancy Forterra, Michelle Connor was named president and CEO, and now she focuses on the big picture — one community at a time.

If you're looking to buy a lake home in New York this year, you could spend as little as $175,757 or as much as $1.6 million depending on the lake, according to a report compiled by LakeHomes.com

This year's market in New York continues to be dominated by Lake George, which is home to 27% of New York's $1 million-plus lakefront listings and is one of the most expensive markets in the state.

LakeHomes.com, which is part of a real estate brokerage that operates in 22 states, reports there are about…

Attention architecture aficionados: One of two houses in Kansas City designed by famed Wisconsin architect Frank Lloyd Wright is preparing for a sale.

The Wright-designed and -renovated Sondern-Adler house, 3600 Belleview Ave., will be sold by auction next month, according to a release from Dallas-based Heritage Auctions.

Last year, current owner Jim Blair put the Sondern-Adler home, which Wright once described as “a little gem,” on the market for $1.65 million with ReeceNichols Real Estate.

It…

Eagan may get hundreds more apartments if three local developers gain approvals for separate projects.

A nine-room, two-story home in the Merchant Plat neighborhood in Oconomowoc recently became available for $1.79 million.

Situated on a 35,000-square-foot lot along on Lac La Belle, the home includes three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, a recreation room, office and a modern kitchen that offers walk-out doors to the expansive brick patio.

The home, built in 1910, spans 3,878 square feet. The master suite overlooks the lake and includes a private balcony.

Outdoors, the property includes…

Stoneacre, a nearly 10,000-square-foot waterfront estate on Gloucester’s Eastern Point, is listed for sale for $7.9 million — down from an original listing price of $8.495 million.

The nine-plus bedroom Stoneacre estate has six baths and three half-baths on a 0.68-acre lot, with five parking spaces and a deep-water dock with two deep-water mooring spaces.

Artist Frederick Hall commissioned Stoneacre in 1912 for his wife Evelyn, an accomplished pianist and the eldest daughter of Massachusetts…

Apartment rent increases in metro Denver may have finally slowed enough to avoid eroding household buying power, according to the latest Denver Metro Apartment Vacancy and Rent survey from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver.

The average apartment rent in metro Denver rose to $1,528 in the second quarter, an annual increase of 2.4 percent from the $1,480.74 average rent last year. That’s below the overall inflation rate, and more importantly, below the average pace of wage gains.

The second quarter is a busy one for turnover in apartments, making it a good barometer of the health of the rental market.

Karl Gehring/The Denver Post fileThis is the view from the tenth-floor of the upscale apartment building Verve at 1490 Delgany Street in downtown Denver Wednesday night, July 16, 2014.Ron Throupe, an associate professor of real estate at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business and the report’s author, said the increases are the slowest for a second quarter since 20..

When Rebecka Hendricks taught in Louisville, Ky., she could afford a three-bedroom house. When she moved to Denver, she barely managed to rent an apartment.

Hendricks said she earned roughly the same salary, about $47,000 a year, in Kentucky and Colorado, but had to move in with roommates to handle the high cost of living in Denver. She also drove for Lyft and delivered food for Postmates to make ends meet at the end of the month, she said.

“Even then, it was a crappy apartment off of Colfax where there was no parking, no laundry,” she said.

A pair of recent analyses showed that teachers struggle to find affordable housing in Denver, but the situation has improved somewhat since 2000 despite skyrocketing real estate prices.

Both reports, developed by housing search websites, define affordable housing as costing no more than 30 percent of a household’s income. ApartmentList estimated about 23% of teachers in the Denver metro area were “cost-burdened,” while Trulia, which focuses on ..

“I hope this property becomes the new door to Winter Park,” the developer said.