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Now that 2018 is drawing to a close, I decided to look back at some of the more luxurious homes we've featured this year through our Open House coverage.

In no particular ranking order, here are some of my favorite homes. All of these homes are still available.

A Gilded Age duplex spanning the parlor level and second floor of a historic mansion in Boston’s Back Bay is listed for sale for $10.9 million.

Architectural firm Peabody and Stearns designed the mansion in 1884. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom unit at 305 Commonwealth Ave. is one of four residences recently renovated by Hexagon Properties, a luxury residential real estate development firm led by Sandra Edgerley.

“Magnificent Gilded Age architectural details, including hand-carved decorative…

One ZIP code in Houston — and only two others in Texas — have a median home value of more than $1 million, according to research compiled by Zillow Group (Nasdaq: Z).

And to live in these prestigious neighborhoods, residents need to make about $200,000 per year, according to a Business Journals analysis of home-value data and mortgage rates in more than 15,000 ZIP codes nationally.

The analysis determined each neighborhood's minimum salary threshold by applying prevailing mortgage rates to…

When it comes to $2 million homes in the region, buyers have limited options.

According to real estate website Zillow.com, the St. Louis region has only about a dozen homes on the market that are priced around $2 million. The total excludes to be built homes and only includes existing homes currently on the market. That’s significantly less inventory than the region’s $1 million homes, which the Business Journal recently examined. The region’s $2 million homes are mostly located in St. Louis’…

A Komatsu Mining Corp. executive on Dec. 3 explained why the global company is spending $285 million on a new Milwaukee headquarters in what is likely the largest urban manufacturing investment in the U.S.

Kamehameha Schools and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands have executed the ground lease on three acres of land for the trust’s $10.9 million learning center on the Waianae Coast.

Kamehameha Schools said it plans to begin construction on the Agnes Kalanihookaha Cope Community Learning Center in Nanakuli in 2019 and has hired Kiewit to design and build the 6,800-square-foot facility, which is scheduled to open in 2020.

The site is near the Nanakuli Village Center project, which will be anchored…

Paul Nassetta always wanted to be a builder. After studying construction in school, he followed the path of his father, who worked for decades as a successful real estate developer.

Since then, in the course of his career, Nassetta has risen to executive positions at Donohoe Construction, Clark Construction and others, taking on prominent projects such as the Verizon Center (now Capital One Arena) in D.C. and the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center. While at Centex — now known as Balfour Beatty Construction…

Sheila Sears has made her mark in an industry dominated by male senior leaders. She points to a work ethic she credits to her parents, immigrants from Nepal who emphasized their children’s education and hard work.

Sears began her career with a D.C.-area boutique construction litigation firm, Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald LLP, where she was promoted to partner in 2013, after nearly eight years at the firm. There, she represented general contractors and landowners on pre-dispute resolution and…

A California private equity firm has acquired two lots for future development through a new tax break program.

Few downtown Sacramento buildings are more divisive among architecture aficionados than the Sacramento Community Center Theater, at L and 13th streets. The building’s 1974 provenance and Brutalist style (think towering blocks of rough concrete) made it, to some, an example of what not to do with public buildings. When the city began forming plans to update the structure in recent years, a few people advocated for tearing it down entirely and building something likely to age better in its place.

Ultimately,…