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It typically costs around $300,000 to build a backyard cottage in Seattle, but the city plans to cut costs and time by hiring architects to come up with standardized, pre-approved designs.

The Railyards/Richards Boulevard corridor is home to Sacramento Valley Station, a transportation hub that dates back to 1926.

With 150 to 175 new homes being built a year in Huber Heights, City Manager Rob Schommer says he’s confident in the strength of the local housing market.

The largest of these developments has been Carriage Trails, a long-term, large-scale housing project akin to the continually-growing Settler’s Walk in Springboro. New add-on phases are incrementally growing it by another hundred or so houses a year.

But what excites Schommer, he says, is the variety of projects elsewhere in town.

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Teachers from across North Carolina turned out in force to greet the General Assembly as it returned to Raleigh yesterday. News reports and photos posted on social media show thousands of educators dressed in red as they marched through the rain-soaked streets of the state capital, with crowd estimates ranging from 19,000 to 30,000, according to The Charlotte Observer. The daily newspaper notes it was the largest act of organized teacher political action in state history.

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Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm, is on a selling spree in Redmond, where it's also unloading a big office campus next to Microsoft's headquarters.

Check out the most-expensive homes sold in Nashville recently by clicking through the slideshow with this story.

Our latest installment is topped by a $2.8 million home in the 37205 ZIP code.

This weekly feature is compiled using Davidson County property records.

Rajan Watumull of Honolulu-based real estate investment firm Watumull Enterprises Ltd. purchased the property from local restaurateurs and brothers, Robert Brescia and Dino Brescia.

Seattle and San Francisco, two booming tech hubs, will see the fastest construction cost increases in the U.S. this year, according to a new report.

How the federal tax cut could inject nearly $40B into the housing market

Four buildings in south St. Louis city have been sold for $1.4 million.