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Map of foreclosures in Douglas County
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- Douglas County land transfers for week ending Feb. 6, 2012
- February 13, 2012
- Douglas County land transfers as recorded by the Douglas County Register of Deeds.
- City to decide whether to allow use of artificial grass in commercial projects
- February 5, 2012
- On the lawn of the Tuckaway Apartments at Frontier, it looks like Tiger Woods could play through at any moment. The grass, of course, isn’t grass. It is synthetic turf, and other than for use on sports fields, the city’s commercial landscape code says it is prohibited.
- Residential real estate market endures dismal 2011
- January 30, 2012
- It seems 2011 was the year for sitting — or perhaps cowering — in your house, not buying a new one.
- Douglas County sand Transfers for the week ending Jan. 23, 2012
- January 27, 2012
- Land transfers from the Douglas County Register of Deeds office for the week ending Jan. 23, 2012.
- Douglas County land transfers for the week ending Jan. 9, 2012
- January 16, 2012
- Land transfers from the Douglas County Register of Deeds for the week ending Jan. 9, 2012.
- Survey: Home prices down in most major US cities
- December 27, 2011
- U.S. home prices fell in most major cities for the second straight month, further evidence that the housing recovery will be bumpy and weigh on the broader economy in 2012.
- Missing persons? City tries solving Census mystery
- December 3, 2011
- Lawrence has a mystery on its hands. File it under a missing-persons case — 5,084 missing persons. With one report, the Census Bureau knocked Lawrence back to 2004, which is when city planners had thought the city’s population topped the 87,000 mark.
- North Lawrence boardwalk proposal picks up steam
- Plan includes stores, restaurants, hotel and more near river
- November 24, 2011
- A plan to bring shoppers and diners — and perhaps even moviegoers — to the edge of the Kansas River via a 1,800-foot boardwalk in North Lawrence is still afloat and is showing signs of gaining momentum.
- Developer wants to breathe new life into former Poehler Mercantile Co. building in east Lawrence
- October 2, 2011
- A bush that wants to be a tree blocks the stairs to one of the few doors left unboarded on this east Lawrence building. High above it are three-foot-high letters that spell out “Theo. Poehler Mercantile Co. Wholesale Grocers.” In a nod to a different era, the sign is most visible from the railroad tracks that sit just a few feet away.
- Lawrence’s Fall Parade of Homes opens this weekend, featuring energy-efficient residences
- September 20, 2011
- Up northwest of Free State High School, in a new home with five bedrooms and four bathrooms and a chef’s kitchen and two fireplaces and a finished walk-out basement with a home theater and 55-inch flatscreen LCD TV, Hubert Kettler knows he’s offering plenty of upscale living for his $549,000 list price.
- Planning commissioners recommend developer cut the artificial grass at new Lawrence apartment complex
- August 25, 2011
- Don’t tell Lawrence-Douglas County planning commissioners that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence — not if it is artificial grass, anyway.
- Bank buys Bella Sera condo complex at forclosure auction
- August 19, 2011
- A multi-million dollar west Lawrence condominium development now is in the hands of an area bank that said it will begin searching for a new owner for the complex.
- Bella Sera residents hope to expand community after sale
- August 18, 2011
- The granite is polished, the pool is filled, the outdoor kitchen is stocked, and the lobby still “looks like a four-star hotel.” Now, all that is missing are people to live here.
- Boost in 2010 from stimulus now ‘killing’ housing market
- Home sales down 25 percent compared with last year
- July 31, 2011
- Call it a stimulus hangover. In 2010, Lawrence’s real estate market started to show signs of life as tax credits for first-time homebuyers — part of the federal stimulus package — did boost sales. But now as numbers for the first half of 2011 are released, it is clear that Lawrence’s real estate market is no longer stimulated.
- Bank starts foreclosure proceedings against Douglas County Sheriff Ken McGovern’s home
- July 28, 2011
- An attorney for U.S. Bank last Friday filed a civil suit seeking a mortgage foreclosure on the west Lawrence home of Douglas County Sheriff Ken McGovern, according to Douglas County District Court records.
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