A recent survey shows that many Americans believe that the nation doesn’t need more roads to suburbia, just ones that are better maintained.
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In the early 1980s, the Canadian government and home builders developed the R-2000 super energy efficiency standard, with the hope that soon all builders would incorporate the ‘green’ standards into their homes. Over the years the program was refined and upgraded many times, and other green standards were introduced, such as Healthy Housing, EnerGuide for [...]

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There are several factors that affect the real estate market as a whole. These factors can make the national market swing upward or downward. One is the employment expansion/shrinkage in the job market; secondly, is the availability of money to consumers; thirdly, is the size of the real estate inventory. When all of these come [...]

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Renters who signed contracts in the third quarter may have made out better than those who moved in earlier this year.
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