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A 12-room, Nantucket-style home on Beaver Lake in Waukesha County has sold for $2.4 million, according to a recent filing with the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

The home previously was listed for $2.49 million, a drop from an earlier asking price of $2.99 million in March 2018.

The home, situated on 2.43 acres in Hartland, spans 6,000 square feet and was built in 1998.

The home features five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a studio/guest room on the third floor, an office and three fireplaces.…

With enrollment up nearly 9 percent over about six years, the Texas State campus in San Marcos is booming. The university is looking for a company that can add at least 2,100 beds on campus.

Residential leasing at Australian developer Caydon’s first stateside luxury mixed-use project is off to a strong start.

Caydon reports that it’s already leased over 10 percent of the apartment units in the 27-story high-rise at 2850 Fannin St., known as Drewery Place.

A Caydon spokeswoman said the company is pleased with the early interest in the $200 million project, especially since preleasing at Drewery Place just began in May. Construction of the tower topped out in December.

Drewery…

The developer wants to offer more affordable housing that's not dependent on federal incentives.

Kline Properties LLC of Austin has purchased the historic Hogg Palace Lofts in downtown Houston, according to an announcement from brokerage firm Jones Lang Lasalle Inc.

JLL’s Chip Nash and Bob Heard and Houston Income Properties’ Jim Hurd and Bishale Patel represented the seller, which was Houston-based Randall Davis Co.

The price was not disclosed. However, the Harris County Appraisal District valued the 0.6-acre site and 139,362 square feet of buildings at $11.72 million in January, up 22…

The next phase includes 121 sites that will include mostly single-family homes, ranging from $400,000 to $450,000.

The firm says the project is being designed for working professionals in Denver who don't want to own a car.

For Phoenix parents looking to send their kids to the best schools, one city neighborhood stands out, according to a recent study from RentCafe.

The 85048 ZIP code — home to affluent Ahwatukee Foothills — features 11 schools designated as top-rated. That's the highest number of top-rated schools for any ZIP in the U.S., according to RentCafe. The analysis looked at elementary and middle schools rated 8, 9, and 10 by GreatSchools.org.

The study analyzed the best big cities and their accompanying…

As a nationwide affordable housing crisis continues to inflict pain on renters and would-be homebuyers across the Centennial State, a tool that gets little public attention has emerged as a key means to get more people into homes they can afford.

This tool also helps stabilize neighborhoods struggling to deal with increased property values and an influx of new money.

For 15 years, land trusts have been quietly helping people buy homes in Denver’s Lowry, Cole and Speer neighborhoods through the nonprofit Colorado Community Land Trust.

Land trusts, typically 501c3 nonprofit organizations, work like this: They buy and refurbish homes or bring on developers to build homes on land they own. They then sell those homes to income-qualified buyers (usually making 80 percent or less of the area median income) at deep discounts. That’s according to Jane Harrington, the longtime executive director of the land trust.

Efforts to create new trusts and extend that reach have been ramping up since ..

Construction on the 15-story building, called Victory Commons, starts this week and is set to be completed by the fall of 2021.