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12/03/2008

R.I. house sales see increase in October
Two reports highlight the jump in single-family sales. One notes those sales were negotiated three or four months earlier, before the stock market crash and massive layoffs.

12/01/2008

In Foster, acre after acre of country elegance
If your dream home includes a secluded country setting and lots of land — maybe with some horseback riding thrown in — this house at 88 Mt. Hygeia Rd., in Foster, could be just the place for you.

11/30/2008

Contractors are using more energy-saving materials, techniques
The developer converting a historic bank building into a hotel in downtown Providence installs thermostats in every room to detect the presence of people and raise and lower the heat in response.

11/28/2008

Housing market might bottom early next year, some agents say
Fifty-two percent of agents said the country will see the bottom of the housing market in the first six months. An additional 7.7 percent said prices have already bottomed out, and 16.5 percent believed that the bottom will happen in 2010 or later.

Homeowners learn that going green can be costly
As Stephen Tilly, a Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., architect who designs green renovations, put it, “There’s a lot of misinformation out there about green.”

11/30/2008

Where we live: 1776 house a link to Cumberland’s past
In north Cumberland, most residents live in newer houses in one of the many suburban subdivisions that have sprouted in the town’s former mill and farm villages in the past 30 years.

Real estate notes
PLATINUM RATING: The first house rated by LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) in Rhode Island has received a platinum rating. This is the highest rating under the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED-H rating system. The LEED-H is a building rating system specifically geared toward homes that are environmentally healthy.

Bristol’s woodsy, waterfront community
There are a number of housing developments along the Warren River and Narragansett Bay waterfront west of Hope Street (Route 114) in Warren and Bristol, bordered by the water and the East Bay Bike Path.

11/23/2008

Housing officials: Know before you buy
Rhode Island’s nonprofit housing groups say one of their basic tools — educating buyers about financial literacy — can help prevent foreclosures.

Real estate notes
NEW ASSOCIATE: Alyce Wright, of Newport, has joined Lila Delman Real Estate as a sales associate. A graduate of Harvard University, she previously worked for 10 years in the financial services industry at Morgan Stanley in London, England, and Goldman Sachs, in New York and London. She is a member of the Women’s Council of Realtors. She will work primarily from the Newport office of Lila Delman.

Here, architectural variety reigns
On the Seekonk line, across Armistice Boulevard from the Pawtucket Country Club and next door to Slater Park, is one of Pawtucket’s most secluded neighborhoods, Countryside.

11/22/2008

A Victorian elegance with modern flourishes
In 1854, Allen Brown, who would later become a senator in the General Assembly, bought 12 lots, part of the former Thurber Farm in Barrington, for $1,330.

11/17/2008

House of the Week: A French provincial touch in East Greenwich
This home at 441 Tillinghast Rd. in East Greenwich makes a powerful first impression. You start at a wrought-iron gate off Tillinghast Road and drive up a cobblestoned drive, passing by a barn/greenhouse before going over a bridge that spans a small brook. The drive, which has lights triggered by motion sensors, ends in a large circle, paved in brick, with a working fountain at the center.

11/16/2008

Real estate notes
NEW OFFICERS: The Rhode Island Association of Realtors installed its 2009 slate of officers. Paul Leys of Newport from Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty in Newport was named president of the statewide association.

Neighborhood of the Week: Hope Valley retains mill charm
In 1824, Gardner Nichols bought the mills and renamed the village around them Hope Valley, “because all his hopes were centered here.”

Reverse mortgages near last year’s sales high
The financing option allows elderly homeowners to tap the equity in their houses.

11/12/2008

R.I. housing prices drop to 5-year low
More than a quarter of the single-family houses sold during the third-quarter were either in foreclosure or sold for less than the amount owed on the mortgage.

11/09/2008

Pottersville: An affordable slice of Little Compton
The Pottersville neighborhood of the coastal community offers homes less expensive than the town’s median house price of more than $500,000.

REAL ESTATE NOTES
PERFECT SCORE FROM HUD: The East Greenwich Housing Authority received its annual federal assessment of the local Section 8 program: a perfect score of 100. This elevates the EGHA Section 8 program to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development “high performer” status.

Lawsuit a public dispute in a private neighborhood
North Kingstown residents appeal a court ruling that confirmed the existence of Pojac Point Road.

11/08/2008

A Federal-style gem in Warren
Only two families have owned the stately John Wheaton House, c. 1833, at 90 Union St. in Warren’s historic district near the downtown waterfront.

A Federal-style gem in Warren
Only two families have owned the stately John Wheaton House, c. 1833, at 90 Union St. in Warren’s historic district near the downtown waterfront.