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2009 Columbia home sales down

Despite a surge of home sales in the last few months of the year, 2009 proved to be another sour year for real estate in South Carolina.

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Home prices could stabilize in 2010

Home prices dipped to a four-year low in the Columbia area this year as sellers - particularly in upper-end markets - struggled to sell their homes.
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Tax credit spurs S.C. home sales

A tax credit helped boost home sales in South Carolina by 63 percent in November over the past year, according to a report released Thursday.
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Tax credit pumps up Columbia home sales

Columbia-area home sales soared 69 percent in November compared with the same month last year, as buyers snapped up starter homes.
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Columbia housing market gets new spark

The suddenly surging Columbia housing market just might have gotten more juice.
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Trapped by debt: More in Midlands can't find way out

Ayanna White got caught up in the home-buying fever that swept the country. Now, only two years after buying her first home for $103,500 with no money down, the 29-year-old, single mother and student is facing foreclosure.
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How two neighborhoods are weathering the harsh downturn

Neighborhoods across the Midlands are feeling the pain of a battered economy and ailing housing market.
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Sweet on Japanese persimmon

I never really cared about growing fruit trees - especially after reading the spraying schedule recommended in Clemson Extension publications. But during the 1980s and 1990s, my husband went through various stages of orchard fixation: peaches, pears, plums, apples - and then the coup de fruit, Japanese...
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Home calendar

- "Turtle Tracks," book reading and signing by author Sally Plowden. 4 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Carolina Children's Garden, 900 Clemson Road in Northeast Columbia. (803) 771-0870; or palmettoconservation.org.
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Add glam to the crisp autumn season

Whether you're hosting a full-force dinner party or a cozy brunch for four, your tabletop can shine with these ideas for harvest decor.
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Growing and harvesting tomatoes in an upside-down world

Since May, I've been conducting a tomato experiment in my backyard. I've been growing tomatoes in the ground, in a homemade upside-down planter and in a commercial upside-down planter called the Topsy Turvy.