Proposed shortcut would connect Sachem Village to DHMC by NH Business Review for Clare Shanahan/Valley News

A map shows the proposed emergency/bus connector road between Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Sachem Village in Lebanon, N.H. (Courtesy of the City of Lebanon) A connector road between Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Sachem Village, a Dartmouth graduate student housing community, is under discussion by city officials once again….

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UWM to offer cash-outs with up to 90% LTV and no mortgage insurance by Flávia Furlan Nunes for HousingWire

HousingWireHousingWire United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) announced on Wednesday that it’s offering a conventional cash-out loan product with a loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of up to 90% and no mortgage insurance. The announcement comes after interest rates have dropped and competition for refinances has increased. According to Michigan-based UWM, borrowers are historically…

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City ups offer, moves closer to agreement with Eighty Eight Coffee owners over eminent domain by NH Business Review for Carol Robidoux-Manchester Ink Link

Eighty Eight Coffee Co. at 124 Queen City Avenue. (Photo by Amara Phelps) Eminent domain is a necessary but unpleasant facet of progress – it is the right of the government to take private property for public use as long as it provides “just compensation,” as defined by the New Hampshire…

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Portsmouth holds back Sherburne School housing proposals after Right to Know request by NH Business Review for Jeff McMenemy-Portsmouth Herald

The vacant former Sherburne School in Portsmouth could become home to a below-market-rate housing project. (Photo by Jeff McMenemy/Seacoastonline) The city has received responses to its request for proposals for the potential redevelopment of the 5.3-acre former Sherburne School property with below-market-rate housing. But city officials are refusing — for now — to…

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