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Nashville-area home sales were down slightly to start the year, and the government may have played a role.

There were 2,274 home closings in January, according to the Greater Nashville Realtors, a 1 percent dip compared to a year ago.

“The government shutdown impacted closings in January to some degree, but overall, 2019 is off to a great start,” Greater Nashville Realtors President Andrew Terrell said in a news release. The 35-day partial government shutdown impacted some federal housing…

Want to live like a celebrity in Aspen? Here's your chance.

Movie star Kevin Costner's mountain retreat is available to rent for $30,000 per night.

The “Dances with Wolves” and “Field of Dreams” actor's land at 47200 Highway 82 boasts three homes, which can comfortably accommodate 27 overnight guests, along with an event venue for entertaining.

In winter, the 160-acre property includes such features as a sledding hill, an ice skating rink and room to dog sled with the Continental Divide as a…

However, a brisk fourth quarter helped make up some ground for a slow start to the year.

If you own property in Massachusetts, here's some slightly good news: Your tax rate fell by about 1 percent over the past year.

With 347 of the cities and towns in Massachusetts having set their property tax rates for 2019 by the end of last year, the median residential tax rate was $15.37 per $1,000 in assessed value. That's down 20 cents (roughly 1 percent) from last year.

It's a similar situation on the commercial side: The median commercial rate in 2019 is $17.37, down from 17.54 in 2018.

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When a local ad slot during the Super Bowl became available at a discounted rate, Canvas Credit Union leaped at the chance. The credit union, based in Lone Tree, ran a 30-second spot just after halftime to highlight its new zero-down mortgage.

And the applications started pouring in.

“We got in one night what we usually get in half a month,” said Tansley Stearns, chief people and strategy officer at Canvas. In two days, the ad generated 117 applications for the “100% Home Mortgage.” Of those, 53 have moved forward, and more applications keep pouring in.

The average cost of a 30-second national spot hit a record $5.25 million this year. Stearns wouldn’t disclose what Canvas paid for its ad, but she said local ad rates are a fraction of national ones and that Canvas paid one of the lowest rates for a local spot.

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The ad didn’t come with splashy celebrity endorsements, a la Steve Carell, Lil Jon and Cardi B pitching Peps..

The game maker owns a 670,000-square-foot building at 650 Townsend St., where it occupies about half the space.

Local real estate potentially up for lease or sale includes downtown office space, branches across the region and back-office operations.

Hilton Grand Vacations opened the first phase of the Ocean Tower by Hilton Grand Vacations Club on Thursday, a redeveloped hotel tower at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on Hawaii’s Big Island.

The Ocean Tower, the fourth time-share property in Waikoloa Resort for Hilton Grand Vacations (NYSE: HGV), is a multi-phase project that is converting the former 600-room hotel tower to 350 studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom suites and upgraded penthouse residences.

The initial phase of the project has 72…

Josh Krsnak was in the middle of a body-building competition, and was shocked to hear he had to perform a routine alone on stage in front of 1,000 spectators. He had only minutes to prepare.

Barnes & Noble has signed a long-term lease for one of its two Hawaii book stores, making what was to have been a temporary location at the Maui Marketplace permanent.

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) opened the temporary store in a former Petco space at the shopping center in Kahului last year after it closed a longtime store at Lahaina Gateway Center on the other side of the Valley Isle. The bookseller recently renewed that lease on the 14,000-square-foot space for five years.

Barnes & Noble has…