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Why this former Arizona Cardinals kicker will spend more time in Arizona

Picture a fantasy fairytale home situated on a sprawling estate in the hills of the Peninsula — that's about just what's on the market in the exclusive San Mateo community of Hillsborough.

The 5-bedroom, 5-and-a-half bathroom Tudor-style property at 133 Ridgeway Road was built in 1927 and holds old-school handcrafted touches including wrought-iron hardware, hardwood floors, and leaded and stained-glass windows, while still offering modern creature comforts and appliances.

The asking price is…

Picture a fantasy fairytale home situated on a sprawling estate in the hills of the Peninsula — that's about just what's on the market in the exclusive San Mateo community of Hillsborough.

The 5-bedroom, 5-and-a-half bathroom Tudor-style property at 133 Ridgeway Road was built in 1927 and holds old-school handcrafted touches including wrought-iron hardware, hardwood floors, and leaded and stained-glass windows, while still offering modern creature comforts and appliances.

The asking price is…

A day after a much-watched state bill to boost transit-oriented development died in a legislative hearing, the city of Sacramento is having meetings to craft something similar.

“Always seeing the mountains around us, I think, is humbling. I think it keeps our egos in check. “

Since 2000, spending on building apartments, condominiums and other multifamily projects has exceeded $13 billion in Phoenix, according to a new report.

That's $13.1 billion to be exact, according to the report from Apartment List. That total spending is the 10th highest among all major U.S. metro areas during the period from 2000 to 2016.

Spending on multifamily construction in Phoenix was 10.5 percent of the share of residential spending from 2000 to 2016, according to the report.

Nationally,…

Austin's CodeNext land-use revamp is mired in controversy, but down in San Marcos the City Council has approved Code SMTX with the support of most of the major players.

The recent process to auction off late NFL Hall of Famer Reggie White's estate in North Carolina has failed to secure a sale.

Designed by White and wife Sara, the three-story luxury home at Lake Norman in Charlotte, N.C., went up for auction in mid-March but did not garner a high enough bid to trade hands — despite “unprecedented interest” in the home, according to a statement from Charlotte-based online luxury real estate marketplace Interluxe, which represented the listing in developing a marketing…

The slow-growth majority on the Boulder City Council on Tuesday reversed a significant move made by the previous council, voting to increase by 150 percent the per-square-foot fee that commercial developers must pay into the city affordable housing fund.

That fee, set at $12 just 16 months ago, will be raised to $30, the council decided in a 6-3 vote.

Affordable housing linkage fees are onetime payments commercial developers must give cities in order to offset the impact of their new construction — and the jobs that construction brings — on the resulting demand for affordable housing in that city.

Most cities do not have these fees. They are seen mostly in affluent communities on the coasts, and are used at higher levels in Bay Area cities with housing crises, such as Mountain View and Palo Alto, Calif.

Palo Alto’s fee is $35, which is the country’s highest. At $30, Boulder’s fee will fall just shy of that, but in effect it will be vastly steeper than the fee in Palo Alto, because ..

The firm could be operational by late May.