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Picerne Military Housing - a builder and manager of U.S. military housing - is launching a new parent company, Corvias Group, and a new student housing division, Corvias Campus Living, the company announced Tuesday.
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By Dana Reilly |
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Rhode Island single-family home sales rose 17 percent in June compared with the same period last year, the 12th consecutive month of increased volume.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Roger Williams University is allowing the affordable housing coalition, HousingWorks RI, to relocate to its downtown campus, HousingWorks announced late last week.
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By Dana Reilly |
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When the Supreme Court upheld the health care-reform law on federal tax grounds, it restoked a housing issue that had been relatively quiet for the past year: The alleged 3.8 percent “real estate tax” on home sales beginning in 2013 that is buried away in the legislation.
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7/23/12
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John Picerne was raised on the real estate business in the third-generation Picerne Real Estate Group. But the further he went in the family business, the less comfortable he became with the boom-and-bust cycles of residential housing. Craving a more stable slice of the market, Picerne ventured into military housing, particularly building apartments on Army bases, and broke off the independent Picerne Military Housing in 2005.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Private Reserve Properties LLC, a Providence company, faces an Environmental Protection Agency penalty of up to $421,900 for what the agency says are repeated violations of federal lead-based paint disclosure laws and regulations.
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By PBN Staff
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Can what’s old really become new again?
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Clarendon Court, the Cliff Walk mansion and former home of Claus and Sunny von Bulow, has sold for $13.1 million, the highest price in the state this year, listing agent Paul A. Leys of Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty announced.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Rhode Island had the fifth-highest Mortgage Fraud Index rating in 2011 for fraud investigations, according to LexisNexis’ 14th Annual Mortgage Fraud Report.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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The number of underwater homes in the Providence-Fall River-New Bedford area dropped 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 2012 from the fourth quarter of last year, CoreLogic said Thursday.
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By Patrick Anderson |