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Hidden gem: Manchester

Neighborhood -- or, rather, community: Manchester Notable features: Rolling farmland, cows, horses and elbow room. You'll find homes with generous yards, new single-family houses for less than you'd spend in much of the Baltimore region and an ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  24 Nov 2009
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Now hear this: a property-tax proposal

Gonter, long aggravated that slumlords pay much less in taxes than people who maintain their properties, commented: "Follow Washington DC's lead and raise the property tax rate for all vacant properties by 800% or more. With over 30,000 vacant ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  23 Nov 2009
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Hidden gems: Loch Raven Village & Knettishall

Notable features: Loch Raven Village and Knettishall have 1940s and '50s brick townhouses with more personality than most of the newer stuff. The yards are large enough for flower gardens, as you can see above, and Interstate 695 is less than a mile ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  23 Nov 2009

Foreclosure ripple effects

Know 10 people with prime mortgages? Odds are that one of them is behind on the payments. That was the delinquency rate in Maryland and the U.S. at the end of September, an astonishingly high figure for borrowers who were supposed to be good credit ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  22 Nov 2009

Tom Clancy's new digs, by the numbers

3: Penthouses Clancy combined to make his new, mega-digs 12: The number of 1,000-square-foot condos -- the sort of residence certain Wonks own -- that could fit in Clancy's condo 50: Buyers it would take to equal those taxes among folks getting $250,00 ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Tom Clancy

Hidden gem: Lauraville

Notable features: Single-family homes -- some quite large -- on streets with a quiet, off-the-beaten-track atmosphere. Yet the eastern boundary is Harford Road, a major artery. Businesses in the area include a Safeway grocery store and Main ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Safeway Inc.,  Harold McGee

Owner of 5-bedroom house hopes to downsize

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From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  19 Nov 2009

Two faces of the housing market

You might be excused if, reading the paper today, you wondered what on earth is going on with the housing market. Does the really, really high end have more going for it than the merely high end? Before you start adding thousands of square feet to your ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  19 Nov 2009
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Hidden gem: Lake Walker

Notable features: This neighborhood hard against the city-county line is, architecturally speaking, the opposite of the suburban cul-de-sac where every house looks exactly the same. Here you'll find nineteenth-century farmhouses, modest Depression-era ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  19 Nov 2009

Hidden gem: Havre de Grace

Neighborhood -- or, in this case, community: Notable features: Water, water, everywhere. Havre de Grace's northeastern boundary is the Susquehanna River, and along its southeastern edge flows the Chesapeake Bay. There's a boardwalk promenade along ...

From JAMIE SMITH HOPKINS, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  18 Nov 2009

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