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07/10/2009

R.I. house prices slump
A real-estate report also finds that 20 percent of sales in Rhode Island from January to May were bank-owned properties.

07/11/2009

House of the Week: A cozy Cape in Kingston near the URI campus
“It’s a house that lends itself to spending time with family,” says its owner.

07/05/2009

real estate notes
GRAND AWARD: Newport architect, Gale Goff of Estes/Twombly Architects, received the Grand Award from Custom Home Magazine in a recent design competition. The home is featured on the cover of its May/June issue. Located in Little Compton, the home has two gabled, barn-like structures connected by a covered walkway. A geo-thermal well and pole mounted photovoltaic panels provide the home’s electricity.

At the Colleges
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Hellenic Studies Center Paideia at the University of Rhode Island were held June 30. The complex will be comprised of the Rodos Educational Building, the Ayios Loukas Greek Orthodox Chapel and a Classical theater. The Rodos educational building will showcase Byzantine architecture, art and history and will contain classrooms, a small lecture hall, offices, a library, archival storage, the chapel and exhibit space. The facility will also serve as home to the URI Humanities Center.

Haines Park: A recreation wonderland for neighbors
Haines Park is primarily a single-family house neighborhood, and many of the homes appear to have been built in the mid-1900s.

07/04/2009

House of the Week: A country retreat in Tiverton
The antique reproduction, built in the 1980s, represents a much older house but with all the modern amenities.

07/02/2009

State DBR suspends broker’s license
The state Department of Business Regulation says Christine Adams, of Future Properties Inc., has refused to return a $10,000 deposit. Adams says she will contest the action.

06/28/2009

Carnegie Tower in Portsmouth prepares for grand opening
Like to play golf? Do you really, really like the view from the top? And do you happen to have $14.5 million or so to spend for a vacation home?

R.I. Realtor buys Cape, islands firm

real estate notes
DESIGNATION AWARDED: Mary Ann Lisi , an associate of Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty, has been awarded the National Association of Realtors Green Designation.

At the Colleges

06/27/2009

House of the week: An elegant Victorian in Edgewood
The house at 272 Norwood Ave. in Cranston was built in 1899 and has been restored by its current owners.

06/23/2009

Housing sales show uptick as prices fall
The median sales price of single-family houses drops nearly 25 percent, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors reports.

06/21/2009

Lippitt Park: A leafy, quiet, more affordable entry point to the East Side
The neighborhood at the edge of Blackstone Boulevard is primarily residential with a commercial district on Hope Street.

06/20/2009

House of the Week: In Pawtuxet, a spacious, remodeled Colonial
The nine-room house on Kneeland Street has an in-ground pool and original hardwood floors.

06/14/2009

NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE WEEK: Ocean Road Historic District
Hazard Castle, at 333 Ocean Rd., a Gothic Revival landmark, has been on the market since 2007. Asking price: $7 million.

SWAP to build its first elderly housing project
The 22 apartments on Thurbers Avenue in South Providence are scheduled for completion next May.

At the Colleges
The Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust has awarded the Community College of Rhode Island $50,000 to purchase wireless laptop computers and carts to integrate informatics, the science of information and the practice of information processing, into the existing health sciences curriculum at the Newport County campus.

06/13/2009

Preserved Providence Victorian up for sale
The house at 74 Dexter St., in Providence’s Armory District, has had a variety of commercial uses, including a funeral home.