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2008

65 pennies for your stock

By Matt Carter, Friday, January 18, 2008.
Dominion Homes, Inc., a 55-year old publicly traded developer and builder of homes and condos in Columbus, Ohio and Louisville and Lexington, Ky., is going private. Shareholders will get 65 cents per share, "which represents a 38 percent premium over...  more...

Laugh 'till you cry

By Matt Carter, Friday, January 18, 2008.
OK, nobody comes out looking good here. You may have heard that U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat who has represented Ohio residents living in Toledo and other communities along Lake Erie since 1982, was very excited about her chance...  more...

Shotgun stimulus plan: nothing new for housing

By Matt Carter, Friday, January 18, 2008.
If you're reading this blog chances are your livelihood depends on housing in some way. If so, President Bush's $150 billion economic stimulus package may seem like a shotgun approach that doesn't "speak to you" directly. The plan envisions $100...  more...

Not your average housing bubble

By Jessica Swesey, Friday, January 18, 2008.
Normally when analysts and economists talk about housing bubbles, they're talking about price points: steep increases followed by steep declines. A recent article published by the Journal of American Planning Association (hat tip to WSJ's Development Blog) examines what it...  more...