The Memorial Day weekend swept in summer like the wake off a Lake Minnetonka cruiser, but boaters should be wary this month.

A month ago, Ava Tamosuinas of Wayzata faced a tough choice. The 18-year-old senior at Providence Academy, a private Catholic prep school in Plymouth, had won a full Naval ROTC scholarship to the University of Southern California.

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On its stylish Web site, Creating Real Estate Innovations promises “unique, deeply satisfying living experiences” in Philadelphia.

Financial mail has long maintained that all financial services companies - of whatever hue or persuasion - should be open and transparent in their dealings with the public.

When classes start at Johnson & Wales University in the fall of 2009, if all goes as planned, some 300 students at the school will be living at the upscale condominium project that had been languishing on the market for more than six months.

MORE than half the properties at a multi-million- pound apartment block in Millbay have been sold in just three months.

Sales of newly built homes were flat last month, but were 7 percent above the rock-bottom lows of January as the battered U.S. real estate market appears to be starting a slow and gradual recovery.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced plans that allow qualified first-time home buyers using a Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage to “monetize” an $8,000 tax credit, meaning they can apply the funds to their down payment.