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A spring growth spurt blooms in the housing market. Existing-home sales rose 3.4 percent in April with tight supplies in markets like Miami helping to seed the rejuvenation.

Sales hit 4.62 million homes during the month on an annualized basis, a rise of 3.4% compared with a month earlier and up 10% from April, 2011, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Shareholders in Simon Property rejected an eight-year compensation package awarded to Chief Executive David Simon, which included an annual base salary of $1.25 million and stock awards valued at $132 million over the eight-year term.

The former home of baseball great Babe Ruth in central Massachusetts has come on the market for $1.65 million, complete with an upstairs shrine to the Sultan of Swat.

Sales of previously owned homes in the U.S. grew 3.4% in April, adding to signs that the housing market is recovering gradually from a nearly six-year downturn.

Figures from the Wisconsin Realtors Association show sales of existing homes rose 19A1 2 percent in April, the 10th consecutive month of double-digit sales growth in the state.

This three-bedroom former stables and carriage house in central London has been transformed by its owner, designer Jonathan Reed.

A Navy diver from Perry County died over the weekend while snorkeling off the coast of Guam, according to his family.The cause of 20-year-old Ryan Bennett's death was not immediately known.

To hear its landlords, city officials and residents tell it, Downtown Brooklyn has become extremely familiar with wholesale reinvention schemes.

This home on Mustang Chase off Duval Road in North Austin sold after getting multiple offers, an indication that the Central Texas housing market is heating up, local experts say.

Landlords can stipulate a smoking policy, leaving those unwilling to take their cigarette breaks outside with fewer options.

In what some are calling a $2.6 billion prestige play, China's big fish Wanda is swallowing AMC to create the world's largest theater chain despite the steady decline in the US industry.

This split-level ranch house in Melbourne, Australia, has well appointed entertaining areas as well as windows and balconies that were strategically placed to take advantage of the views.

The tide is already turning in some U.S. housing markets, with home prices in these 10 metro areas expected to climb anywhere between 10% and 21% by the end of next year, according to Fiserv.

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