Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 07/06/2023 - 8:05am
More than 3.6 million electric cars are driving around the U.S., but if you live in an apartment, finding an available charger isn’t always easy. Grocery stores and shopping centers might have a few, but charging takes time and the spaces may be taken or inconvenient.
Several states and cities, aiming to expand EV use, are now trying to lift that barrier to ownership with “right to charge” laws.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 07/06/2023 - 7:58am
COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — Lobster boat engines rumble to life in quiet coves. Lumberjacks trudge deep into the woods. Farmers tend expanses of wild blueberries. Maine's Down East region is where the sunlight first kisses a U.S. state's soil each day, where the vast wilderness and ocean meet in one of the last places on the East Coast unspoiled by development.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 07/06/2023 - 7:53am
A California real estate investor continued to be involved with one of the country’s most successful “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchises years after pleading guilty to felony charges for misleading two elderly homeowners who signed below-market sales contracts.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 5:00am
Greek chapters at the University Nebraska–Lincoln saw their building values jump nearly $1.2 million on average in one year, according to data from the Lancaster County Assessor’s Office.
“It was sticker shock,” said Assistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Jon Gayer. “Some of these groups are probably looking at a $100,000 increase in taxes.”
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 4:00am
OMAHA — More than 2,600 Nebraska property owners have received an average of $13,418 to help stay in their homes since the state early last year launched the pandemic-related Nebraska Homeowner Assistance Fund.
The program — which aimed to prevent Nebraskans from losing their houses over COVID-19 hardships — launched in February 2022 with a $50 million allotment from the U.S. Treasury Department.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/29/2023 - 2:00am
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday announced $42.45 billion to connect all Americans to high-speed broadband internet by the end of the decade, likening the ambitious goal to FDR’s New Deal-era rural electrification program that brought the then-modern technology to farms and rural areas across the United States.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/22/2023 - 5:00am
The Lund Company is firmly established in the Omaha real estate market, but that doesn’t mean the work gets easier. John Lund, the founder and chairman of the company had been trying for months, with no success, to sell the 95,000-plus-square foot Blondo Plaza shopping center. Nothing seemed to be happening.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/22/2023 - 4:00am
Which objects create a feeling of home for you? A particular chair, a table, a teacup from your childhood kitchen?
Visitors to the current exhibition at London’s Museum of the Home are asked to bear this question in mind. Entitled No Place Like Home (A Vietnamese Exhibition) Part II, the show brings together eight artists, born and raised all over the world, who share roots in Vietnam.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/15/2023 - 5:00am
A national housing shortage has driven up rents, leaving a record share of Americans spending more than 30% of their income on rent and making them what is known as rent-burdened. But in four jurisdictions—Minneapolis; New Rochelle, New York; Portland, Oregon; and Tysons, Virginia—new zoning rules to allow more housing have helped curtail rent growth, saving tenants thousands of dollars annually.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 06/15/2023 - 4:00am
LINCOLN — On the windswept plains of South Dakota lies a lonely, century-old historical monument holding a literary mystery and wrapped up in a legal conundrum.
The concrete capsule honors mountain man Hugh Glass, who crawled, limped and rafted 200 miles after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his colleagues in 1823 near modern-day Lemmon, South Dakota.