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		<title><![CDATA[How Mae, an AI real estate agent, is putting a face on HomeServices of America]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS -- The country’s newest real estate specialist is Mae
(short for Maestro), and she was just born this year.

The “synth human” is really part of a new AI-powered platform
that will put a (digital) face on Minneapolis-based ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4086041</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Real estate Q&A: New survey shows our driveway overlaps neighbor's property. Now what?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: We are preparing to refinance our home, and the lender ordered a
new survey. It turns out that about 2 feet of our driveway is on our
neighbor’s property. The driveway has been there since the house was
built over 20 years ago, and no one has...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4085503</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LA considers expanding Airbnb-style short-term vacation rentals]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Owners of second homes — and Airbnb — stand to reap a windfall
under an initiative in Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' new city budget
proposal.

Tucked away in the more than 500 pages of city budget expenditures,
the mayor calls for creating a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4085120</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rivian to place more than 100 new EV chargers around Caruso properties]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Real
estate developer Caruso is partnering with the electric vehicle
company Rivian to add more than 150 public EV chargers to Caruso's
properties, including malls and apartment buildings.

Caruso owns several iconic Southern California ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4085118</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US housing starts surge to highest level since December 2024]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[New residential construction in the U.S. rose in March to the highest
level in more than a year as homebuilders boosted production despite
ongoing affordability concerns.

Housing starts increased 10.8% to an annual pace of 1.5 million homes
in ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4084527</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[San Diego is one of the few US markets where home prices are still rising]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[San Diego home prices haven’t risen much in the past year, but that
growth is still more than most of the U.S.

The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price increased 0.53%
annually in February, said the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4084524</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[His wild, theme park-style home in LA is full of joy. It even has a Disneyland room]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Brandon Shahniani is obsessed with the 1980s sitcom
"The Golden Girls," so much so that he decorated his breezy
bedroom in pastel tones that would make Blanche Devereaux, the show's
famously flirtatious character, green with envy.
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Penn Station be Trump Station? Will Madison Square Garden move? What you need to know about the sweeping redesign]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eight months after the federal government announced an
aggressive timeline for the long-debated rebuilding of Penn Station,
plans for the nation’s busiest train hub are expected to be submitted
next week.

Former NYC Transit head
Andy Byford —...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4082614</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Senate committee kills bill mandating insurance coverage for wildfire safe homes]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bill that would have required insurers to offer coverage to
homeowners who take steps to reduce wildfire risk on their property died
in the Legislature.

The Senate Insurance Committee on Monday voted down the measure, SB 1076, one of the most ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4079019</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Real estate Q&A: Do we have to tell potential buyers about nuisance neighbor?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: We are getting ready to sell our house, and one of the
reasons is our next-door neighbor. He throws loud weekend parties that
run late into the night, leaves trash in his yard for days and has
gotten into shouting matches with several people on...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4078613</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why it is so hard to find, afford renting a Seattle single-family home]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tracy Cambron couldn't afford to buy a house in Seattle when she
moved here a decade ago. Still, she wanted to give her two kids a
childhood like hers — one where they could play in a yard,
trick-or-treat at neighbors’ houses and pass a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Apr/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sky-high office vacancy levels haunt Bay Area's three major downtowns]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sky-high office vacancy rates still haunt the downtowns of San Jose,
Oakland and San Francisco, despite bursts of tech lease deals in Silicon
Valley that have largely bypassed the urban cores of the Bay Area’s
three largest cities.

The vacancy ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4078240</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Seattle renters, landlords clash over ratio utility billing system]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[How renters pay for utilities in Seattle has become a hot topic over
the last year.

A system that divides a building’s total utility bills between
units instead of a flat rate has raised fairness and transparency
concerns among tenants. Some ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4078238</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['We've lost our way': Clifton's operator gives up on downtown Los Angeles]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — The proprietor of Los Angeles' legendary Clifton's
has given up on reopening the shuttered venue.

It's just too difficult to do business in downtown's historic core,
he says.

Andrew Meieran bought Clifton's on Broadway in 2010 ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4075804</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Billionaire investor warns sports prediction markets harm men]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Arnold, the billionaire energy trader-turned-philanthropist,
made his fortune by predicting the direction of markets. Now, he’s
sounding the alarm on fast-growing prediction markets, saying they’re
harmful to young men and boys.

His ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4075771</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The state of women's finances: How homeownership is becoming the great equalizer]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finance is different for everyone. We all inhabit our own money
realities: white people and people of color, Gen Z and baby boomers,
high earners and those with lower incomes.

Women live in their own financial reality, too. One where the gender
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4075761</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Countertop maker Cambria wants big tariffs on cheap quartz imports. Homebuilders are fighting the effort]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Countertop maker Cambria and seven other U.S. manufacturers won a
resounding victory from the International Trade Commission, which ruled
that a significant increase of cheaper quartz imports from Pacific Rim
countries seriously undercut their ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4072151</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Real estate Q&A: Should HOA pay to move fences that town says are too close lake?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: I live in a homeowners’ association, and our yard is enclosed by
a fence that sits a few feet from the lake that my house and several
others border. Our association is now telling us that the town said the
fences were mistakenly allowed to be...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4072050</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['You have to make sacrifices': Central Floridians struggle with high costs]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Florida — At a west Orlando Walmart, Natilee Hamilton
carefully considers the cost of each item she places in her cart as she
struggles to adhere to a budget outpaced by inflation.

It is a balancing act that extends beyond the grocery ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4071981</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LA's trailblazing home builder is the latest to leave California]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of Los Angeles’ most influential home builders, KB Home, is
relocating its headquarters out of state, becoming the latest
high-profile firm to do so.

The company, which has been based in Los Angeles since 1963 and
helped build its sprawling...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4071056</link>
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    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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