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By Sean Ryan The state is simultaneously slogging through a backlog of applications for lead removal licenses and reassuring contractors they will not be penalized for violating the new rules. Wisconsin on April 22 enacted new rules requiring home-renovation contractors ...

Tagged with: abatement Carl Krueger Construction contractors Department of Health Services lead license renovation Shelley Bruce

By ?STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The economy in the Upper Midwest is strengthening at a moderate pace, with gradual improvement expected to continue into next year, economists with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said Wednesday. ...

Tagged with: economy Fed

By ALAN ZIBEL AP Real Estate Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Home construction plunged last month and building permits also fell, the latest signs that the construction industry won’t fuel the economic recovery. Builders are scaling back now that government incentives ...

Tagged with: Commerce Department Fed Federal Reserve home sales National Association of Home Builders new-home construction tax credit

By Alan Zibel AP Real Estate Writer Washington (AP) — Homebuilders are losing confidence in the housing market now that government incentives that spurred home sales have ended. The National Association of Home Builders reported Tuesday its housing market index ...

Tagged with: foreclosure homebuilder homeowner housing index market National Association of Home Builders tax credit Treasury Department

By Dan Strumpf AP Auto Writer New York (AP) — Pickups are a kind of rugged indicator of the nation’s financial health. When times are good, contractors buy more of them to carry tools around for landscaping and lumber to ...

Tagged with: contractors

OSHA reports • Havenwood Homes Inc., Wind Lake, must pay a $600 fall-protection citation because the period to contest the violation has ended. The company was issued the citation April 13 during a nonresidential building job at S76 W17587 Janesville ...

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By Sean Ryan Two Brookfield homeowners are exchanging privacy for leverage in an eminent domain lawsuit after a court ruled their shared driveway is a public road. Brookfield in 2008 took land from properties owned by the Husar family and ...

Tagged with: Brookfield Circuit Court eminent domain Grisa homeowner lawsuit

By ALAN ZIBEL AP Real Estate Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The foreclosure crisis appears to be leveling off. The number of people facing foreclosure is nearly flat from a year ago, according to the latest report from a private foreclosure ...

Tagged with: banks foreclosures loans Mortgage Bankers Association unemployment

By Sean Ryan Public policy and public opinion are going head to head over a disputed zoning law in an east side Milwaukee neighborhood. City aldermen are in the middle of the debate, weighing property owners’ complaints against a law ...

Tagged with: east side historic Michael Murphy Milwaukee Neighborhoods and Development Committee renovation Robert Bauman zoning

By Scott Carlson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — A stone’s throw from the Hi-Lake Shopping Center it developed in Minneapolis, Wellington Management Inc. has preliminary plans to break ground next spring on a mixed-use project that calls for about 55 ...

Tagged with: Central Corridor light rail Metropolitan Council Twin Cities