Clear®, the leader in airport security fast lanes, announced that the number of trips through the nationwide Clear Lanes since the service began is expected to hit two million over the next week. Clear had announced that it reached one million uses just six months ago. And, this past week, Clear processed over 10,000 [...]

The American Red Cross - Southeastern Michigan Chapter will officially begin the 2008 Blanket Days for the Homeless campaign on November 3. The campaign is now in its 21st year and the Red Cross is looking to collect 7,000 blankets. This year’s campaign lasts through January 30, 2009.
As in past years, Blanket Days will rely [...]

After years of waiting, condo lovers finally can make their dream come true to have a condo in Mt.Washington. It has been 20 years. And now the project is going to be started. the developer will allocate $6 million to carry the project.
The six-story, 11-unit building to be visible next to St. Mary of the [...]

In the first half of 2007, home and condo sales in Washtenaw County fell nearly 16 percent compared to the same period in 2006 - the largest midyear sales drop in at least seven years, statistics show.
“The inventory of homes is still very large and getting larger, in my opinion,” said Timm Williams, an [...]

The Wag Hotel, a 239-room hotel made exclusively for dogs and cats, will celebrate the grand opening of its San Francisco property on Saturday.
The three-story, 35,000- square-foot hotel on 14th Street boasts a 5,600-gallon indoor swimming pool, a rooftop lawn for “business walks,” and spacious indoor play areas allow “guests” to remain active during their [...]

ANTIOCH — Three real estate professionals suspected of using a client’s credit report to buy a $739,000 Brentwood home and pocket the $30,000 commission were released on bail Friday, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Charges of forgery, grand theft, identity theft, falsifying real estate documents and conspiracy were filed in Contra Costa County against Monika [...]

The founder of Business Wire, an electronic distributor of news releases, donated $33 million to help Stanford University build a stem cell research center, the school announced Tuesday.
Lorry Lokey’s donation is the largest contribution from an individual to the Stanford medical school. Stanford hopes to complete construction by 2011.
“The important thing to me is that [...]

Apartment rents in six northern Alameda County cities went up an average of 10.9 percent last year due to strong job growth and a shortage of apartments, according to a survey released Wednesday by a property owners group.
Rents for all types of apartments in Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Piedmont averaged $1,142 last year, [...]

A Detroit-area condo group has sued to oust a family featured on ABC’s “Supernanny,” claiming the four children are still unruly after the nanny’s visit.
The Trillium Park Homeowners Association said it wants Michael and Tamara Amouri to comply with condo regulations or face eviction, the Detroit News said Tuesday.
“I don’t know if (”Supernanny”) had [...]

30-YEAR-OLD legal assistant Vince McGautha, home ownership did not mean a single-family house with a backyard. Instead, the first-time home buyer chose a townhouse in Union City. It was new, had custom features and, just as important, had space for his 2-year-old son, was affordable and close to BART.
Todd Benatar liked the exercise facility, complete [...]

As if trying to turn around the district’s academics and finances weren’t enough, Pittsburgh Public Schools now is helping to run a condominium.
The school board last month agreed to appoint three representatives to a condo board that will manage a Downtown building housing part of the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.
The [...]

Has condo-mania hit North Oakland?
Developers seem to have caught on to the fact neighborhoods like Temescal are ripe for building market-rate condominiums. They have bought lots, shuttled through the city’s planning process and erected five to six-story complexes that tower over existing nearby structures.
“It’s gentrified a certain amount here,” Temescal resident Robert Temple said. “I [...]