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For metro Denver’s housing market, 2018 will go down as a tale of fire and ice, where a very hot first half of the year was followed by a much colder second half. And there were no signs of that downward slide easing in December.

Home and condo sales in metro Denver dropped 17.8 percent in December from November to 3,396. Comparing December 2018 to December 2017, home sales are down by 23 percent, according to the market trends report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. Measured across the entire year, home sales in metro Denver are down 5.5 percent in 2018 versus 2017.

“Sellers celebrated in the first half of the year with a crazy blur of multiple offers and fast sales,” said Jill Schafer, head of the DMAR market trends committee and a local Realtor, in a release. “It was buyers’ turn to celebrate when the housing inventory jumped up in May and June, causing a market adjustment in the second half of the year and finally giving them some choices.”

As sales fell, propertie..

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The development firm that bought the 515-acre Olde Towne site in southeast Raleigh closed on the property in 21 days without getting approval of development plans or construction documents beforehand.

Bro’s Cajun Cuisine on booming Charlotte Avenue won’t be closing soon after all.

The owners of the restaurant — Linda and Darrell Breaux — listed their property at 3214 Charlotte Ave. for sale in late 2016 for $2.98 million. The couple said their long-running restaurant would close after a sale.

Now, Nashville Post reports, the couple is no longer listing the restaurant property and plan to continue running Bro's. However, the couple did sell some residentially zoned parcels behind the…

The application for the 126.7-acre site has no mention of Apple, but that's standard operating procedure for the technology giant.

Developer Nasr “Vic” Abuoleim says he's enjoyed “every minute” of living in the 10,400-square-foot mansion on the Gibsonton waterfront that he finished in 2015.

But his nature is “always in the pursuit of something more,” he says, so the sprawling property hit the market on Wednesday priced at $18 million.

The home at 12147 US Highway 41 sits on more than 200 acres and includes tennis and basketball courts as well as a boat dock with a lift. It has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms.

Donna Miller,…

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