Maryland Real Estate Transfer Tax Alert

The Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation has proposed regulations regarding recordation and transfer taxes. More details......
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New club is seeking Hammerjacks site

A concert venu and club could open this summer at the former Hammerjacks nightclub, a Baltimore icon of heavy metal and rock that closed nearly two years ago to make way for a development now stalled in the housing slump. More details......
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The JHU Gazette
First in R&D spending for 28th year

The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.49 billion in science, medical and engineering reserach in ficcal year 2006, More details.......
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Fixing Baltimore

It was not that long ago that philanthropy in a place like Baltimore was tinged with an "alms-to-the-poor" aura. More details.......
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Developer Closes on Harbor Tower Sites

Why BRAC bodes well for Maryland. More Details......
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The Coming Housing Crunch

The Baltimore metropolitan area stands ready to add more than 200,000 jobs over the next 25 years, propelled by the huge economic engine of the nation's capital and the growing demands of talents-hungry employers. But it won't have enough homes for all those workers. More Details......
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Buying Into Baltimore

Thousands of Washintonians each year are moving north from the Capital City to Charm City, attracted by cheaper housing, ethnic neighborhoods and urban amenities they say are lacking here. More Details......
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Developer wants to build city's tallest skyscraper-twice

Investors once afraid to dip so much as a toe into the Baltimore real estate market are now pluging in with millions of dollars, betting on a prosperous future for the city. More Details......
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Rents Rise as Apartment Market Is Squeezed

The apartment market in the Washington area has become one of the tightest in the country, and rents are rising briskly as some affluent residents decide to rent rather than buy in what they fear is an inflated real esstate market. More details.......
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Superblocked

Hopkins Medicine celebrates construction

D.C. housing prices still among nation's fastest growing

Baltimore Nightclub is to close Saturday

Developers quietly plan for two city skyscrapers

Base-linked jobs begin to arrive in Maryland

In a key first step to the anticipated relocation of tens of thousands of jobs to Maryland under a national military base consolidation, a major government contractor opened the doors yesterday to its plush new waterfront offices near Aberdeen in Harford County. More Details....
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Report City condo market looking more like D.C.'s

As demonstrated by the number of cranes towering across the city skyline and the number of sales, Baltimore-area condominiums become a popular investment for developers, homebuyers and speculators last year. More details.......
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We want ... tech

With base realignment, Aberdeen about to become Armory's most diverse tech facility in the world.
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Developer to turn City Hall-area apartements into condominiums

Less than three years after transforming a vacant warehouse in downtown Baltimore into luxury apartments, the developer sold it to a new owner that plans to convert the units into condominiums. More details......
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CONDO FEVER COME TO TOWN

Construction crains point skyward. Billboards beckon residents to embrace urban living
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DOWNTOWN (Mt. Vernon, City Center, West Side, Inner Harbor)

Recently Completed/Stabalized buildings.More Details.......
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Moved and Shaken

As the East Side Biotech Park Comes In, Area Residents Come to Terms With Getting Out.
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Area home sales ease; city yet to reach peak
Prices still rising with more houses on the market

With each passing month, there is mounting evidence of a mild if uneven slowdown in the regional real
estate market, with the number of homes on the market rising steadily as prices and sales slip further
from their summer peaks. More Details.......
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Harbor may get tallest building
$300 million project has hotel, condos, spa

A Philadelphia developer plans to build what would be the tallest tower in Baltimore on one of the last undeveloped parcels along the Inner Harbor, a multimillion-dollar project to include luxury condominiums, a boutique hotel and retailers such as a spa and a gourmet grocer. More Details.......
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Balto. Co. Council votes to expand preservation tax breaks

The Baltimore County Council voted last night to expand a program that gives tax breaks to people who
renovate historic buildings. More Details.......
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Condo boom spells end for apartment complex
Loss of Balto. County community mourned

Emily Brewster says living in the Rodgers Forge Apartments has been a lot like living on Sesame Street.
Children play on the lawns outside the brick buildings and attend good public schools. A mix of senior
citizens, doctoral students and young couples are friendly with each other, and the property is known for
being clean and feeling safe. More Details......
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City OKs high-rise over Metro station
Cordish Co. is to build condo-apartment tower near Port Discovery

The Cordish Co. has won city approval to build a 34-story residential tower atop an underground Metro
station in downtown Baltimore on the former site of the Port Discovery HiFlyer balloon, the city's
economic development agency said yesterday. More Details.......
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