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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>
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    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gov. JB Pritzker's ambitious housing plan for Illinois: More four-flats, looser rules]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above the bay windows that run up the center of a two-story apartment
building in Uptown, Nick Serra stands on what had been the roof but will
soon be the balcony for a new third-floor unit he’s adding.

In many circumstances, the construction ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4069599</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4068914</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Best pets for a hypoallergenic home]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[5 Easy DIY repairs which seem intimidating but aren't]]></title>
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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4068912</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Home Robotics in the Modern World]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[No body<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4068911</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Lived-In House]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[No body<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chicago lands nation's first Candy Hall of Fame as retail district continues recovery]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — The Magnificent Mile got some good news Thursday when the
National Confectionery Sales Association said it will open the first
Candy Hall of Fame Experience next year at 830 N. Michigan Ave.

The attraction will occupy 60,000 square ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/home/s-4066916</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Apr/10/2026</pubDate>
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