An effort to recoup $5.4 million in fines from Michael Liberty will be delayed while a criminal case against him moves forward.
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Booming real estate market challenges businesses, home buyers
Southern Maine’s real estate market keeps up a multi-year rise, sidelining buyers seeking modestly priced homes and businesses desperate for industrial space.
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Portland warehouse grab pushes industrial businesses to Saco
The former mill town emerges an attractive – and far less expensive – alternative.
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The decade in Maine business and economy
From the depths of the Great Recession, Maine’s economy began a steady rebound that has allowed some industries to flourish despite a growing worker shortage.
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Time & Temperature Building’s new owners vow to bring back Portland icon’s ‘glory days’
Chris Rhoades and Andrew Preston say they’ll decide how to use the downtown building’s mostly vacant office tower and submit their restoration plans to the city by February.
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November decline hurts Maine’s overall home sales in 2019
The state had been on track for a record year before single-family home sales dropped by nearly 8% last month from the same period in 2018.
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Ex-developer Michael Liberty wants other cases delayed while he fights Maine criminal charges
The former Portland developer is asking a court to put a Pennsylvania case on hold so he can focus on the fraud charges.
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Clark’s Pond Parkway retail center in South Portland is up for sale
The 62,000-square-foot center has been listed with an asking price of $7.2 million.
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MaineHousing gives 5 affordable housing projects a $6.8 million boost
Projects in Portland, South Portland, Waterville and Bangor will create or preserve 275 affordable housing units, says the housing authority.
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Prices of Maine homes continued to climb in October
Median prices rose 4.6 percent to $224,900, while the volume of sales ticked up only slightly over October 2018 sales.