Monthly Archives: January 2012
Funeral to be Wednesday for Francom
OGDEN -- The funeral for slain Ogden Officer Jared Francom, whose death rattled the state and captured much public attention, has been set for Wednesday at Weber State University.The service for Francom, 30, will begin at 11 a.m. at the Dee Events Center, 4400 Harrison Blvd.Francom was shot while serving a search warrant Wednesday night with 11 other members of the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force. He died early Thursday morning at McKay-Dee Hospital.His interment will be at the Ogden City Read more [...]
Setting a listing amount is the key to the deal – Sarasota Herald
For years after she and her husband bought the condo in 2000, it had steadily increased in value. It was obvious that when they sold it, the place would be worth more than they'd paid. Then the housing market started to drop and kept dropping. From 2008 to 2011, the condo lost about a third of its value. And the couple wanted to sell. "We'd been waiting for prices to rise to list it, but they just kept going down," Southworth said. "By last fall, we decided we really needed to sell. It was time, Read more [...]
Baldwin-Whitehall House Tour
The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch provides another gallery of some of the residential real estate listings in our area. Houses eligible to be listed are any of those in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District.
The B-W Patch will do its best to feature houses representing different price levels and representing different real estate agencies.
The B-W Patch has no intention of favoring certain listings or companies.
Click through the photo gallery located toward the top of this page for this week's listings Read more [...]
Library Briefs – Chicago Sun
January 6, 2012 2:56PM
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Phoenix-area housing may be on the mend
Data from the end of 2011 suggest that a housing-market recovery has begun in metro Phoenix.
The upswing in the market will surprise many because it comes less than five months after the region’s existing-home prices fell to their lowest level since 1999. But even at last year’s low point in August, when the median home price fell to $112,000, many market indicators pointed to an increase in the area’s home prices by year-end. Now, it appears they were right.
Search home values | 31 Days Read more [...]
Census 1911: British Infirmities Listed As ‘Old Age’, ‘Baldness’ And Being …
The release of a section of the 1911 census relating to illnesses and infirmities gives a revealing insight into how people viewed their health then.
The column, which details descriptions of people's ailments as perceived by the head of the household on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911, has remained closed under data protection regulations until now.
The entries, Read more [...]
Baristaville Open Houses: Sunday, Jan. 8
It’s the first open house Sunday in three weeks, but area real estate remains in a winter freeze; only about 40 properties are showing. Thirteen of them are in Maplewood. Millburn has a couple of nice new listings, while just one house is showing in Montclair.
20 Rahway Rd., Millburn
List Price: $675,000
Taxes: $12,721
Acreage: 0.09 Acres
3BR/1.1BA
This just-listed eight-room Colonial was renovated in 2004 to feature a modern kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. Read more [...]
Big events in China’s financial industry 2007-2011
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BEIJING - The fourth National Financial Work Conference concluded on Saturday. The meeting, held every five years, mapped out a blueprint for the development of China's financial industry from 2012 to 2017.
The following are the major achievements in the industry from 2007 to 2011.
In March 2007, China's first village bank opened in southwest Read more [...]
Board-certified cardiologist listing 5BD in The Woodlands for $4.6M
Christopher H. LaVergne and Wendy B. LaVergne have listed for sale a five-bedroom, 6.5-bath home at 30 Netherfield Way in The Woodlands for $4.6 million. The LaVergnes acquired the property in May 2005. The 10,444-square-foot house was built in the Village of Carlton Woods. It is valued at $2.73 million. Jennifer Fargo of Coldwell Banker United, Realtors has the listing. Christopher LaVergne is a board-certified cardiologist who is affiliated with Woodlands North Houston Heart Center. He obtained Read more [...]