My Affordable Real Estate

Brokers are reporting that the number of signed contracts rose in June, July and the first weeks of August, traditionally a slow period.

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Homeowners are in better financial condition in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey than in many other parts of the country.

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A view of the public library in East Meadow. A centrally located hamlet framed by the Meadowbrook and Wantagh Parkways, it is close to shopping and 20 minutes from the Point Lookout beach.East Meadow has throwback feeling — along with a swell of young couples and young families and a melting pot of ethnicities.

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Melissa Gooding decided to sell her weekend home in Moorestown, N.J., relinquish her Upper West Side rental, and buy a bigger, permanent home in her neighborhood.

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Barbara McCall lives with her daughter, Scherrie McCall, and Scherrie’s son, Marques, in a three-bedroom apartment. Ms. McCall moved there years ago with her late husband, whose portrait is below.From her 22nd-floor apartment in the Soundview section of the Bronx, Barbara McCall, a retired nurse, can see the world.

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The market for luxury residences in Tuscany has hit a rough patch for the first time since the euro doubled the cost of property — and of nearly everything else, too — almost a decade ago.

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A recent Nassau County Bar Association clinic for homeowners facing foreclosure was run by Yvette Pacheco of the housing department; Martha Krisel, head of a foreclosure task force; and Peter Levy, a past bar association president.A mortgage foreclosure clinic at the Nassau County Bar Association in Mineola tries to help homeowners who have found themselves in trouble.

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The Dolans, in Avon-by-the-Sea, are among the buyers taking advantage of reduced prices in shoreline areas. “We were able to get a nice price on a house close to the water,” said Mary Jane Dolan, “because we were able to wait until we could.”Homes within view of the water have done better than other homes in the shoreline counties of Ocean and Monmouth.

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The world’s fourth-tallest building, the ICC, is not complete yet. But despite the global economic crisis, it is already nearly fully rented.

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A few miles north of New Paltz, N.Y., an organic stylist is bringing his 1775 home into the 21st century.

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