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Silicon Valley Shake-Up: These Are the Next Top Tech Towns

Silicon Valley Shake-Up: These Are the Next Top Tech Towns RoschetzkyIstockPhoto/iStock; realtor.com Like most of America’s true paradigm shifts, the growth of Silicon Valley’s tech industry started with lots of slow-burning embers—then exploded into a full-scale conflagration seemingly overnight.…

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How Green Is Your Home? An Eco-Friendly Reality Check

How Green Is Your Home? An Eco-Friendly Reality Check Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Green homes have gone mainstream, and one of the most popular ways to be friendly to the environment and your wallet…

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Defying Predictions, Mortgage Rates Are Dropping—Here’s Why

Defying Predictions, Mortgage Rates Are Dropping—Here’s Why Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Anxious would-be home buyers have been watching mortgage interest rates finally begin ticking up again in 2017, after years of historical lows. And when the Federal…

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Existing-Home Sales Hit Highest Numbers Since Recession

Existing-Home Sales Hit Highest Numbers Since Recession Hero Images/iStock The spring home-buying market was off to a strong start in March as buyers closed on the highest number of existing homes in a decade. And that’s despite…

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Housing Crunch Threatens Reno’s Tech Boom

Housing Crunch Threatens Reno’s Tech Boom David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News RENO, Nev.—When a development company here acquired in 2015 a ranch once owned by a casino magnate, managing partner Chip Bowlby thought homes could be quickly built…

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