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There's no better time to unveil the Portland metro-area's Hottest 'Hoods than in the midst of a weeks-long heat wave.

If the buyers were lucky, the homes they acquired last quarter came equipped with functional air-conditioning systems.

Click on the images above, to view Portland's top 25 ZIP codes for houses sold in Q2 2018.

Meanwhile, quarterly home sales bounced back a bit. In all 99 greater Portland-area ZIP codes for which RMLS provided data, a total of 8,532 houses sold in the second…

The lobby of the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center was filled with the singing of dozens of preschoolers Friday morning. Accompanied on guitar by teacher Liat Arochas, the pint-sized ensemble sang to ring in Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest observed on Saturdays.

The weekly Shabbat sing, open to members of the public regardless of their faith, is a tradition in the building at 350 S. Dahlia St. After years of financial mismanagement caused the center to rack up $14.3 million in debt and a pile of deferred maintenance needs, that tradition and the Denver JCC’s future at its longtime home in the Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood was uncertain.

That is, until local charities and a collection of private donors stepped in earlier this year to raise $16 million to right the ship. Now, with a new land ownership arrangement and new board of directors, leaders with the community institution — known by those who work there as “the J” — are looking forward to enjoying Shabbat songs in ..

Amid a nationwide affordable-housing crisis, the country’s top housing official visited Aurora to emphasize the importance of working with private partners to create sustainable places to live for low-income people.

Ben Carson, secretary of the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Authority, joined U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and Aurora mayor Bob LeGare in touring the Village at Westerly Creek on Monday. The Aurora Housing Authority developed the nearly complete $50.4 million project through use of federal low-income housing tax credits, Section 8 relocation vouchers and other federal funding sources. The village, 144 affordable rental units for senior citizens and 50 affordable units for families at 10727 E. Kentucky Ave., replaced Buckingham Gardens, an outdated and unsafe government housing development that opened in 1979, officials say.

“It really goes to show what can be done when you plan it out well and when you spend time learning from other things that did not work well,” Carson s..

Another day, another apartment project. The latest complex is slated to go up near the Florida Mall.

The Crow Group's City Centre project at the northeast corner of I-35 and McNeil Road near downtown Round Rock would have at least 125,000 square feet of Class A office space.

Houston is working hard to become a bustling innovation center, but the city has a long way to go, according to a report from CBRE.

The Triad industrial market showed positive absorption in the second quarter of 2018, though was less than one-third of the growth experienced in the first quarter, according to the CBRE (NYSE: CBRE) Triad MarketView Report.

CBRE tracks more than 80 million square feet of industrial and flex space in Guilford, Forsyth and Alamance counties.

The Triad industrial market remains “very healthy,” according to the report, which noted several speculative developments that could drive the vacancy rate…

City leaders will consider whether to substantially shrink the amount of allowable office growth throughout the city in coming years, a choice that could have ripple effects on city coffers, housing and traffic.

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An infrastructure plan by Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., would establish a federal capital revolving fund to help fund new construction or rehabilitation projects.
The inaugural project under the plan would be a new FBI headquarters, replacing the brutalist structure at 935 Pennsylvania Ave. NW that President Donald Trump reportedly called “terrible.”
The project is stalled as Congress and the General Services Administration remain deadlocked over where a new FBI headquarters should…

Oak Park Brewing Co. may be gone, but its spot on Broadway in Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood may not be dark for long.