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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Buffett: Straight talk from ‘Woodstock of Capitalism’
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting is being streamed live from Omaha via the Internet for the first time.
What the best places to buy a home in America have in common
By Emily Badger
Zip code 11216 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn has a spectacular stock of stately brownstones. The buildings — long ago sliced into apartments, but easily restored as grand townhomes again — composed the last major collection of brownstones in the borough that hadn’t yet been gentrified going into this housing cycle, beginning in the early part of the last decade.
“So there was a huge feeding frenzy for them,” Stephen Smith, a New York writer behind the Market Urbanism blog, told me. The housing looks just like in popular Park Slope, but the neighborhood is a little further out.
Since 2004, single-family home values in the Zip code have risen by 194 percent — they’ve tripled in barely a decade. That’s the single biggest gain of any Zip code among the 300 largest metro areas in the country, according to our new Washington Post analysis of how home values have changed across the U.S. over the bubble, bust and recovery. (The analysis lets you explore what happened in your Zip code, and how the country’s housing market has been increasingly divided along lines of race, income and geography.)
Zip code 11216 looks a bit odd in our data: It now has a median single-family home value over $1 million. But the median income according to the most recent five-year American Community Survey data is only about $44,000 — certainly not what you’d need to buy such a place.
This is a hallmark of rapidly changing neighborhoods: steep price gains, relatively lower incomes. This Bed-Stuy neighborhood is also still home to lower-middle-class retired homeowners and renters in rent-stabilized apartments, many of them West Indian and African American. What’s happening in the housing market benefits the longtime homeowners (at least as far as their property …read more
Trump says he’d bring Beijing into line
Donald Trump had a foreign policy sales pitch for U.S. voters and a blunt message for the world Wednesday: America comes first. …read more
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The Margin: Take this quiz and find out how much you have in common with Warren Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting kicks off in Omaha, Neb., on Saturday, so get ready to feast on a buffet of Warren Buffett coverage in the coming days. But start with this quiz.
Hatchet throwing and beer: A can’t-miss venture
A new business in town allows its patrons to get primal while drinking a cold one.
Spate of fatal shootings — by children
The .40-caliber gun stashed under the driver’s seat slipped backward on the car floor, right into the reach of Patrice Price’s 2-year-old son. …read more
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Walgreens wants to talk weed
Rovi acquires DVR company TiVo
Rovi is buying digital video recording pioneer TiVo for about $1.1 billion.
The San Carlos, Calif.-based entertainment technology company will pay investors $2.75 per share in cash, or about $277 million, while the rest of the $7.
Punished after reporting rape at college
Multiple young women claim they received backlash, instead of support, after reporting sexual violence to the Mormon-run school.
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