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The grungy hotel room was reeking of smoke. The bathtub was rusty. The bedspread and furnishings were dingy relics. But I couldn’t leave. I’d already paid $155 in an online travel auction for the Queen Mary Hotel room — $91 for the room, $20 commission, $24 in taxes and $20 to upgrade to a room [...]

There may be more life left in the Royal Hotel than most people thought. Since Kitchener-based Peter Benninger Realty was hired by the city in January to find a purchaser for the dubious city landmark, there has been a steady stream of people expressing interest in rehabilitating the building.
A report to council provides a summary [...]

Bargain hunters are finding great deals at one new condo development in Burnsville, Minn.
Prices at the 35-unit Uptown Landing were slashed between $50,000 and $100,000 this week after the property went into foreclosure.
Experts say it was probably due partly to slow condo sales.
Byrl Peterson and his wife looked at a two-bedroom place for $220,000, down [...]

Roomster.net, an advanced roommate and apartment matching service that connects members using personality traits, keyword searches and interests, has announced that it is now offering its service in the United Kingdom. The site, which launched in 2003, continues to dominate the online apartment, roommate and sublet matching arena in the United States and Canada. Roomster [...]

Real estate investment trust BioMed Realty Trust Inc. said Tuesday that it is buying the life science portfolio of Lyme Timber Co., of Hanover, N.H., for about $511 million.
The deal includes roughly 600,000 square feet of life science space recently completed or under construction at Lyme’s Rogers Street project and land that can support around [...]

Deluxe hotel chains, boosted by the overall strength in the hotel industry, are shuttling billions of dollars into global expansion and renovation projects, in some cases at what the companies are calling unprecedented levels.
Luxury hotels have benefited from increased demand boosted by the resurgence of corporate profits , and hoteliers within that tier are capitalizing [...]

Parts of a development planned near the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge were blocked Thursday by a state land-use commission.
The Maryland Critical Area Commission, which reviews development plans near the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coastal bays, voted 22-0 to block a growth allocation designation on 313 acres near the refuge. Dorchester County and the city of [...]

To the sound of bagpipes and drum, a 25-foot-long steel beam, painted white and decorated with a US flag and signatures of steelworkers from Local 7 and others, was raised at the topping-off of the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in South Boston. Construction on the 471-room hotel at D and Congress streets began a year [...]

Many East Cambridge residents are angered by the Cambridge Housing Authority’s plans to purchase an eight-condominium building at 22 Lopez Ave. for $2 million, then lease the property to Shelter Inc., a Cambridge-based non profit, as a residence for the homeless.
During a heated meeting at the Harry S. Truman Apartments on Aug. 30, several residents [...]

When a condominium in the Ladder 3 Lofts at 88 Franklin St. sold for $485,000 last year, the real estate community in Greater Boston took notice. After all, the sum was a record breaker - but all that is history.
Paul Campano of Prudential Prime Properties in Boston and Buccelli Real [...]

TEN YEARS AGO, the Internet was just beginning to catch on, cells phones were more a novelty than a necessity and a million dollars would buy a nice, spacious house — a new, custom-built, five-bedroom, three and a half-bath, 4,500-square-foot house in the coveted Mission area of Fremont, for example.
What will $1 million buy [...]