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What $500K Buys You In Durham

On January 18, 2016 when I pulled this data there were 22 homes listed for sale in the Triangle Multiple Listing Service in Durham with prices ranging from $475K to $525K. If that doesn’t sound like a lot in a community with so many doctors, PhDs and entrepreneurs and a foodie … [Read more...]

Kiss the Girls – Policing in Durham

I'm a fan of police procedural novels and I'm probably seen a hundred of the thousands of episodes of the various Law and Order shows on TV. I've read most of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller Books. Most of John Sandford's Lucas Davenport's "Prey" series and also … [Read more...]

Is Durham the Most Affluent of them All?

No, it's not Durham. The Durham Regional Association of REALTORS recently sent out a bulletin with a link to a story in the Triangle Business Journal about information they had compiled about the relative affluence of 11 communities in the Triangle. Apparently the parent company … [Read more...]

Why Durham: Citizens’ Financial Report

For a good many of the 30 plus years I’ve lived in Durham, the City Government was not famous for anything particularly good, with a couple of exceptions. Therefore, when I spotted among the pile of newspaper inserts headed for recycling the City of Durham’s Citizens Financial … [Read more...]

Needs a little TLC

On the Buying a Home page I put pictures of homes ranging from an ancient castle to a couple that, to put it mildly, need a little tender loving care.  The point I was implying was that at any given time there is a wide variety of homes on the market.  As a listing agent … [Read more...]