The median price - the point where half of homes sell for more and half sell for less - dropped 5.8 percent, from $345,000 in 2005 to $325,000 last year, according to a report released by The Warren Group, a Boston-based publisher of regional real estate data and other financial information. That price had grown 12 straight years, beginning in 1994.
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Massachusetts housing prices drop for first time in 13 years
The median price - the point where half of homes sell for more and half sell for less - dropped 5.8 percent, from $345,000 in 2005 to $325,000 last year, according to a report released by The Warren Group, a Boston-based publisher of regional real estate data and other financial information. That price had grown 12 straight years, beginning in 1994.
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Netflix light on movies as viewers soak up TV shows
Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix, is photographed in his Beverly Hills office in December. Projected on the screen is "Lilyhammer" the first Netflix original series. Amid troubles for the company, Netflix is evolving from a home video service to a TV rerun service.
LOS ANGELES — Like most fresh faces that arrive in Hollywood, Netflix wanted to be a movie star.
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Make these moves to lower your tax bill
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The Ryan Report: The Fairholme Fund; A Tale of Two Markets
There are many reasons why people invest. Some have goals such as educating their children, saving for retirement or simply accumulating wealth. Others who are already wealthy invest to grow and preserve their comfortable nest egg. Some investors are bold; others are timid. The idea that age has anything to do with it is overstated. There are as many brave 70-year-olds as there are brave 35-year-olds. The opposite is also true. But, what all individual investors seem to have in common is the tendency to assume that current conditions will continue well on into the future. History has proven that this assumption is way off base.
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