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A historic home in Boston’s South End that’s billed as the “only remaining intact wooden single-family home” in the neighborhood has been listed for sale for $2.85 million. It's the first time in more than three decades the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home at Five Haven St. has been on the market.

“Lovingly restored by its current owners, this historic South End home is a unique piece of history,” the listing states. “A seamless blend of original elements and modern amenities, this…

Homebuilders around the region saw a double-digit drop in single-family permits in the first month of 2019.

An 18-room, South Beach-inspired home on Oconomowoc Lake that offers plenty of space for entertaining is on the market for $2.84 million.

Built in 1997, the home at 36234 S. Beach Road includes a game room, entertainment bar, hot tub room, private theater and outdoor patio with a fire pit and grill.

The 7,000-square-foot house also includes a 1950s-inspired soda parlor, a private elevator, an exercise room, library, den/office and of its 1.37 acres, a leveled yard for hosting events and outdoor…

Built in 1974, the house at 5151 Blake Road S. in Edina seems to have a little of everything. For $3,240,000, it can be yours.

The castle-style stone exterior is contrasted by a modern interior. Downstairs, there's a wine cave in the finished basement, as well as an amusement room that includes a billiards table. The main floor has a theater and a sun room. The house is 8,800 square feet total.

The kitchen and bathrooms were recently renovated. The kitchen now comes with an island while one of…

Once again, Davis took the spot as the best suburb in the Sacramento area, as ranked by the real estate website Niche.

Davis received an A+ overall Niche ranking. The other top suburbs include Gold River, Folsom and El Dorado Hills. For the full list, click through the slideshow above.

Niche defines “suburb” as a place within a census-defined urbanized area, but outside the principal city, with a population of at least 1,000.

Relying on sources such as census data and reviews from Niche users,…

Liz Burtt would start out thinking she had just rented a little piece of paradise, only to find herself locked into an unexpected purgatory she couldn’t easily escape.

It happened again and again. There were property managers who ignored repair requests and landlords who showed up unannounced at the oddest hours. Especially frustrating were the unreturned security deposits after doing everything required.

Armed with better information going in, Burtt said she would have made different choices and avoided a lot of frustration. So late last year, she launched Renting Right, a website that gathers reviews and comments on the “unknowns” people don’t find out about until after they sign a lease and move in.

“Landlords do all the research on tenants before they let you rent,” Burtt said. Credit scores, criminal background checks, prior landlord references, and employment verification — tenants must leap through numerous hoops to prove they are worthy.

But tenants don’t have equivalent re..

Outside of California’s biggest cities, no other housing market is cooling as quickly this year as is metro Denver’s, according to an analysis from Zillow.

“It is no surprise that the markets which pushed the bounds of affordability over the housing recovery are now experiencing significant cooling,” Skylar Olsen, Zillow’s director of economic research, said in the report.

As prices rose, mortgage payments and down payments outstripped incomes, causing buyer demand to exhaust itself, Olsen said. Buyers who didn’t get priced out can now afford to take more time to decide what to do, as more inventory comes into play and listings take longer to move.

Zillow determines how quickly a given market is cooling down or heating up by looking at the share of listings that adjust lower, the final sales price as a share of the listing price, and the change in the average number of days a home spends on the market.

In metro Denver, it found that 18 percent of listings took a price cut in Januar..

Selling books online is what put Amazon on the map. Now ranked among the most valuable companies in the world, the company began selling books to Denver-area consumer the old fashioned way on Wednesday: Via a storefront in Cherry Creek.

The Denver location of Amazon Books opened at 10 a.m. Wednesday at 2787 E. Second Ave., a block east of the Cherry Cricket in the city’s Cherry Creek North district.

The 4,500-square-foot store, housed in the ground floor of the BMC Investments and Bow River Capital Partners’ new Financial House building, carries a curated — but also data-driven — selection of 3,000 books, as well as an array of Amazon devices, games, toys and other merchandise.

Just inside the doors, stands a rack titled “Most Wished for Books,” a selection of reading materials featured on the most “wish lists” of the e-commerce company’s millions of users. Excerpts of online reviews can be found hanging over hardcovers for sale. Special prices for Amazon Prime subscribers, some as ..

It took a little longer than expected, but isn’t that always the case with a big home improvement project?

HomeAdvisor, the home services advisory and connection firm that swallowed up its main U.S. competition, Angie’s List, in 2017 to become a multi-billion-dollar publicly traded company, is finally ready to plant its flag in Denver.

Executives on Monday held an open house at the Hub, the eight-story office building at 3601 Walnut St., that will soon be the new base of operations for the company that to this point has been based in Golden.

Originally aiming to move in in early 2018, then late 2018, then earlier this year, around 400 HomeAdvisor employees are expected to finally move into the building by the first week of April. The Denver contingent of the 3,900-person company will be composed of executives, marketers, finance pros and product and development team members, company officials say.

At the Hub, on the northern end of Denver’s trendy River North Art District, just acr..

A house in Aspen just set a record.

The property at 135 E. Cooper Ave. sold for $21.95 million late last month, but that’s not where the record-setting money resides in this residence nestled in the core of Aspen.

“This is the highest price-per-square-foot sale for a single-family home in the central downtown area of Aspen,” said Carrie Wells, a broker with Coldwell Banker Mason Morse Real Estate, who represented the seller of the J.M. Dixon house.

That price per square foot? $3,396.

Wells said the house’s location — in the area from the base of Aspen Mountain to Main Street — was a key factor in the pricing of this property and why it sold for what it did.

The house has seven bathrooms and one half-bath as well as seven bedrooms — five in the main Victorian-style house and two in the guest house.

What’s unique to this house, Wells said, is that in most cases the Historic Preservation Committee requires a staircase in the Victorian portion of a house. Since the guest house also h..