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Everyone who lives here knows Denver is a great place to live, but a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report re-confirms it.

Denver moves up to No. 2 on the 2019 list, reclaiming the spot from Colorado Springs, which moved from second to third place this year. Last year, Denver was No. 3 and in 2017 it was No. 2.

>Click on the gallery to view the 25 Best Places to Live in 2019, according to U.S. News.

U.S. News analyzed the 125 most populous metro areas and ranked them on multiple factors, including…

While San Antonio remains the least expensive major market in Texas to rent in, it has surpassed Houston in occupancy.

Two Triad cities have again ranked among the best places to live in the U.S. in 2019, according to a report by U.S. News and World Report.

U.S. News analyzed 125 metro areas in the U.S. to find the best places to live based on quality of life and the job market in each metro area, as well as the value of living there and people's desire to live there.

Winston-Salem ranked No. 31, up from No. 43 in 2018. Greensboro ranked No. 66, down from No. 60 last year.

Other North Carolina cities ranked among…

Red Sox outfielder Rusney Castillo has listed his mansion in Miami-Dade County's Pinecrest village for $3.95 million.

The six-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom home spans 10,572 square feet and is a two-story, plantation-style estate. Megan Salazar and Kent Campbell of luxury residential brokerage Douglas Elliman are the listing brokers.

“The impeccably designed property showcases volume ceilings, French doors with picture windows that allow for natural lighting, Carrara stone marble wood flooring throughout…

Reagan Smith had been with SRI Properties from 2010 but now he's part of the Capital Markets team at Austin's largest commercial real estate brokerage.

The founder of the Lumber Liquidators flooring chain has paid $3.1 million for a Williamson County estate — roughly an hour's drive to the headquarters of one of his present-day businesses.

Tom Sullivan now owns a nearly 130-acre property in Leiper's Fork, according to public records. The historic unincorporated village has become popular with a number of recognizable property owners over the years. That roster includes Justin Timberlake; Chris Stapleton; the Judds; Tim McGraw and Faith Hill;…

After two years of slipping, the Triangle is back on the rise in the annual rankings of best places to live by U.S. News and World Report.

The Triangle jumped three slots and other North Carolina cities were lauded as well Tuesday as U.S. News and World Report released its annual survey of the best places to live.

The Triangle checked in at No. 10 after ranking No. 13 last year.

The new rankings mark a return to the Top 10 for the Triangle, which ranked No. 7 in 2017 and No. 4 in 2016.

While…

As temperatures were on the rise, Nashville-area home sales fell in March.

According to the latest data from Greater Nashville Realtors, there were 3,237 closings in the region last month, a 6 percent decline from March 2018.

Single-family homes sold for a median price of $305,000, up from $297,915 a year ago. Condo units sold for a median price of $223,000, up from $218,600.

The market's inventory of available homes, condos and lots stood at 11,276 at the end of March, up from 8,521 a year ago.

“The…

Keli McGregor’s initials, KSM, have been emblazoned on a marker hanging at Coors Field since September 2010, a few months after the Colorado Rockies team president’s untimely death from complications from a rare virus.

On Thursday, Rockies principal owner and CEO Dick Monfort announced that isn’t the only monument to McGregor in LoDo anymore. Now, he has an entire city block named for him.

McGregor Square is now the name of the mammoth mixed-use development the Rockies are building across the street from Coors Field on the site of the former “West Lot” parking area. Monfort, at a naming ceremony held on the club level of the stadium, said that he had wrestled with a proper name for the project for more than a year, bringing in professional consultants and speaking with close friends.

“We wanted it to be something with character. We wanted it to be fun. It needed to have style and class. Needed to be a strong presence. And it needed to be one of a kind,” Monfort said, thinking back t..

A Denver judge properly decided former foreclosure king Larry Castle and his law firm did not violate state laws designed to protect consumers but, according to the Colorado Court of Appeals, wrongly fined the firm for not disclosing certain business connections it had.

Denver Post fileLarry CastleIn a unanimous 3-0 decision issued Thursday, the judges upheld a Denver court’s April 2017 exoneration of Castle and two other companies for alleged fraud, but overturned a $119,500 fine assessed against Castle on the one count of the state’s civil lawsuit it lost.

The decision gave Castle another victory in a seven-year legal battle against the Colorado attorney general’s office which unsuccessfully accused the law firm and two other defendants of reaping millions of dollars in illegitimate profits on the backs of consumers.

Castle’s biggest victory — a $1.9 million assessment by Denver District Judge Morris Hoffman against the state for having filed a frivolous lawsuit against Castle, hi..