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After hurricane Sandy destroyed Mary Jane Liu’s home in Westport, Connecticut, she found herself with the opportunity to build a house perfectly suited to her family’s needs. It was also a chance to build a house that was very energy efficient and as low maintenance as possible, in the modern farmhouse style she loved. Liu found some plans that appealed to her online, then took them to her architect, Ann Lathrop, to adjust them to work with her nonconforming lot and to have a more modern, open layout that would best work for her family. Bensonwood Photos (except for the crane shot) by Stacy Bass Photography Houzz at a Glance Who lives here:  Mary Jane Liu and her teenage daughter. Her two adult sons visit often. Location:  Westport, Connecticut Size:  2,400 square feet (223 square meters); 4 bedrooms, 3 ½  baths Because Liu was in a hurry to rebuild while the Federal Emergency Management Agency was still helping her cover the rent at her temporary home,...

There are few things scarier than looking for a place to live in the city, which seems to explain the thematic importance of real estate to so many New York-based horror films . Whether it's satanists skulking around The Dakota or a virologist living on Washington Square Park in a post-apocalyptic world , New York apartments and homes—and the invasion of these spaces by the otherworldly—tend to figure prominently in Hollywood's version of creepy. With that in mind, we're listing some of the weirdest, most iconic apartments to have been featured in movies set in New York that are perfect to watch on Halloween. Not all of these are strictly horror films, with thriller, fantasy, and adventure bleeding through the porous boundaries of genre. They range in quality from "genuine classic" to "utter crap," but all of them are worth watching in their own ways, if only to see how New York finds its way onto the silver screen. Check out the list this way >...

Q: Is it true that the New York State Thruway Authority is catching speeders with E-ZPass? Please let me know so I can get rid of the damn thing. —Bill Marcella, New Rochelle A: Not only can they track your speed, give you a ticket, and fine you, the system also has a way to determine if you’re a registered Republican, in which case the current administration will have you detained and most probably waterboarded. Kidding, kidding. The theory behind this fear is that the E-ZPass system can determine how fast a car on the Thruway outfitted with its device has traveled by measuring the distance and time it took to get from its point of entry to its point of exit. The E-ZPass system could do the calculation and bust your speeding butt without having to pull you over and listen to your weak sob story—Big Brother at its finest. Some folks even claim they’ve received such tickets from E-ZPass in the mail. Well, Illuminati fans, I’m sorry to report that the Thruway Authority as Orwel...

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recent_searches federal housing finance agency / florida ends foreclosure mediation program / citigroup jobs / broker compensation / u s department housing urban development REwired   Monday Morning Cup of Coffee takes a look at news crossing HousingWire's weekend desk, with more coverage to come on bigger issues. Black Knight Financial Services' "First Look" at February 2014 data Black Knight, formerly Lender Processing Services , report on mortgage performance in February include the following highlights: The number of loans in foreclosure has dropped by more than 500K since last year (1.24M as of Feb.) There are now nearly 1 million fewer non-current mortgages since last February (4.1M as of Feb). The roughly 92K foreclosure starts in February marked a 30% year-over-year decline. The monthly prepayment rate (historically a good indicator of refinance activity) declined almost 64% year-over-year. Mississippi, Nevada & Rhode I...

Mt Kisco NY Weekly Real Estate Report 2/27/2014 Homes for sale 38 Median Ask Price $750,000.00 Low Price $339,000.00 High Price $4,900,000.00 Average Size 3136 Average Price/foot $326.00 Average DOM 107 Average Ask Price $1,059,995.00

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The combination of tough new rules denying qualified mortgages to applicants without the ability to repay and soaring study loan debt may be doing more than anything else to shut an entire generation out of homeownership. First-time buyer market share has fallen to 27 percent in recent months. Rising prices, thin inventories of starter homes, rising down payment requirements and tight lending standards have made it hard on first-timers trying to climb the first rung of the homeownership ladder. A news analysis by an economist at the National Association of Realtors suggests that student debt, which is now the second largest component of household debt next to mortgage debt, may have a depressing effect on home sales for years to come due a provision in the new QM rule, which took effect last month. The QM rule requires a consumer to have a debt to income ratio of no more than 43 percent including mortgage payments, will not make buying a home an easier for debt-straddled college...

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"(The) single-family rental market is becoming a new asset class. Blackstone , Colony , Deutschebank are all investing billions," said moderator Sharif Mahdavian, managing director for Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. "So how is it affecting the mortgage environment?" "It looks to us like a viable business," said Joseph Buonanno, a partner with Hunton & Williams. "Whether this is cyclical or temporary, or the new new thing, I think it’s probably too early to say we will change decades of history and change to a rental society." Steven Abrahams, head of securitization and mortgage-backed securities research at Deutsche Bank Securities , says he sees this trend as an anomaly. He says the flood of capital to the rental side just reflects the withdrawal of capital from the mortgage side. "As the population grows and rates of household formation rebound to normal, we will see a return of owner occupant capital," Abr...

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The nation's largest mortgage lenders are rushing to keep up with the latest flip-flop from the agency that oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Finance Agency.    In an oddly timed email sent to a handful of reporters late Friday, Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C.-who has been confirmed as the new head of the FHFA but not yet sworn in-made a major announcement that will directly affect mortgage rates. He said he would delay a decision made by current acting director, Ed DeMarco, to hike fees charged to lenders by Fannie and Freddie. "I felt that it was important to announce my intentions now because of the prospect that some lenders could start to price the announced changes into the market well before the effective dates of the changes outlined in the FHFA's December 9, 2013 News Release," Watt wrote in the email sent from his personal account. The "prospect" was already a reality. Earlier Friday, Citi put out a...

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