An up-and-down year for Baltimore's housing market

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Up-and-down year for housing market

Gauging the trajectory of the real estate market in the region has become a hyper-local exercise — it depends on where you live. While a handful of communities roared back so strongly last year that the number of home sales actually topped the market peak of 2005, many others are still freefalling years after the housing bubble popped, raising the possibility that the promise of revitalization during boom times was a mirage, a Baltimore Sun analysis found. More than 40 percent of the metro area's ZIP codes saw home buying increase. Most of the rest lost ground.


Son accused of conspiring to rob father

The son of a man who shot and killed an armed intruder in his Perry Hall home last year has been arrested in Florida and charged with conspiring with the gunman to rob his father, police in Fort Lauderdale said Friday. William Bozman Jr., 44, was arrested Tuesday by the FBI's Fugitive Task Force and being held in a Florida jail without bail.

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Stinkbugs are back

After sheltering from the winter, they have begun to emerge for the spring

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Homes under contract

A substantial number of contracts are hanging around as issues arise

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Eaglets at Blackwater

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