housing

• Housing

• US home construction up 6.8 pct. in May; permits for more single-family homes hit 5-year high
• Survey: Most US homebuilders optimistic about home sales for first time in 7 years
• Survey shows most US homebuilders optimistic about home sales for first time in 7 years
• Where to invest in an uncertain market? Consider drilling equipment, apartments
• Where to invest in an uncertain market? Consider drilling equipment, apartments
• Lenders stepped up US home repossessions in May; more new homes entered the foreclosure path
• Luxury housing boom transforms student life at U of M

• Foreclosures

• Foreclosure hits Burnsville's Heart of the City
• 94 percent of Minnesota counties lack affordable rental housing
• Housing market points upward
• Negative equity in the Twin Cities outpaces the nation
• Wells Fargo offers $9M to Twin Cities home buyers
• Ex-strippers, mortgage fraud and the North Side
• 75 rally for man who faces loss of house

• Rentals

• Renting and the Law: What's ordinary wear and tear?
• Can tenants withhold last month's rent?
• Renting: Are tenants being taken advantage of?
• Renting and the Law: Tenant wants out of house with moldy basement
• An outstate rental boom?
• More apartments headed for the North Loop neighborhood in Mpls.
• 36-story apartment tower could rise near Loring Park