Special Issues
Conserve water, beautify your yard with xeriscaping
Xeriscaping emphasizes using native plants to beautify your space and conserve water, a necessity in these drought-ridden times.
By Jessica Fuller | 23 Jul 2008

Sheep, goats, electric mowers: Tending a sustainable lawn
One gas mower running for an hour emits as many pollutants as eight new cars driving at 55 mph for the same amount of time.
By Sandy Smith-Nonini | 23 Jul 2008

The American (bad) Dream
Several times a month, someone from the county clerk's office stands outside the first-floor elevator of the Durham County Courthouse and sells people's dreams.
By Lisa Sorg | 12 Mar 2008

Besides the borrower, there are four entities involved in loan-making: lenders, brokers, investors and servicing companies.
By Lisa Sorg | 12 Mar 2008

Several terms signal you could be entering a bad deal.
By Lisa Sorg | 12 Mar 2008

Download more charts: Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham counties (PDF, 54 KB)
States have been excluded from regulating real-estate transactions that historically had been under their watch, N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper says.
By Bob Geary | 12 Mar 2008

Stung by a middleman
"They make it sound like all these people [in foreclosure] are in over their heads," Wilma Vaughn says, "but they're in over their heads because these companies put them in over their heads."
By Mosi Secret | 12 Mar 2008

Vanlife
Between 1996 and 1999, I spent over a thousand nights bedded down in my van.
By Douglas Vuncannon | 12 Mar 2008

Scientific Properties' Audra Ladd in Durham
Reinventing old urban spaces in Raleigh and Durham
25 Jul 2007

One of the grand old dwellings of the Blount Street district in Raleigh
The North Blount Street historic district contains some of Raleigh's oldest and most historically important homes. A redevelopment plan could turn them back into homes and help transform the district into one of downtown's most upscale neighborhoods.
By Zack Smith | 25 Jul 2007

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