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Prince William supervisors approve luxury apartment complex near planned Quartz District 12/23/2023 11:04pm • The Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday approved a rezoning to pave way for the luxury Windsor Oaks apartment complex outside Dale City. The site, located on nearly 10 acres at 3695 Elm Farm Road near the Prince William Parkway, could include up to 233 multi-family residential uni A weekly food distribution event gets a festive touch — and a visit from Santa 12/21/2023 11:13pm • Trucks with hams, vegetables and other groceries rolled up one after the other to the offices of The Upcounty Hub on Thursday morning. The nonprofit provides weekly food distributions to families in need in Germantown, Gaithersburg, and other locations in northern Montgomery County, Maryland, Not guilty: Mother of man killed in DC police chase acquitted of assaulting US marshal in court 12/08/2023 07:45am • The mother of Karon Hylton-Brown — the 20-year-old father who was killed in a 2020 crash while being chased by D.C. police — has been found not guilty of assaulting a U.S. marshal in a federal courtroom. Karen Hylton was in arrested in May 2023, immediately after two D.C. police officers were Pet spas, built-in feeding nooks to pamper pets emerge as real estate trends 12/04/2023 04:56am • D.C. real estate agents are reporting an uptick in buyers looking for features to pamper their pets in their next home purchase. Pet spas and built-in feeding nooks are high on many search lists, said Noelle-Kristine Spencer of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. “Gone are the days of the DC Council blocks mayor's request to move funding from rental assistance program 11/13/2023 08:40am • D.C. Councilmembers last week voted to block Mayor Muriel Bowser's request to move $20 million out of a district program for emergency rental assistance. "Residents need emergency rental assistance in a big way right now," Councilman Robert White said in a Nov. 7 statement. White said he worke America needs to advance long-term solutions to improve housing supply and affordability 11/08/2023 11:07am • This content is provided by the American Property Owners Alliance. Years of underinvestment and underbuilding have left America with a severe housing shortage unlike ever before. Without action, this crisis will only worsen. Elected officials must prioritize the pro-housing solutions on the table How to protect your personal information when renting a car 11/06/2023 04:15am • Have you ever rented a vehicle and found an unfamiliar contact list when trying to connect a phone to the car's infotainment system? Turns out, the information may belong to an earlier renter of the automobile. This is happening more often as states require drivers to go hands free behind the whe TransUnion accused of illegal practice with rental background checks 11/01/2023 09:30pm • Credit report agency TransUnion has been accused of failing to take steps to ensure the accuracy of rental background checks that landlords use to decide who gets housing. The company is also accused of withholding from renters the names of third parties that provided the inaccurate information. DC sues more than a dozen of District's largest landlords, alleging widespread rent collusion 11/01/2023 09:39am • The D.C. Attorney General's office has filed a lawsuit against 14 of the District's largest landlords and property management software company RealPage, alleging they used the technology to illegally raise rents for thousands of residents. The lawsuit alleges collusion by collectively delegating 84-year-old Montgomery Co. woman scammed out of over $100k 10/24/2023 08:21pm • Joy Boone can't believe what happened to her 84-year-old mother. Boone said scammers convinced her mom who lives in Montgomery County, Maryland, to give them $120,000. Montgomery County police confirmed to WTOP that the incident was reported, and said detectives are investigating. "I just f Prime leaf peeping spots in the DC region 10/23/2023 02:56pm • Fall foliage season is underway and there are fall colors already emerging in the D.C. area. As a result, there are plenty of great options to take in autumn's spectacular colors. DC The National Arboretum is famous for its Capitol Columns. The 451-acre park also boasts dozens of species of trees, Businesses are the biggest targets of financial crimes. Help is being offered in Prince George's Co. 10/21/2023 04:40am • October isn’t even over yet and already fraud and scams have cost Prince George’s County, Maryland, residents and businesses more than $10 million. With the holiday shopping season almost upon us, there’s concern that the number will go up even more. “Because of their large balance she 2 DC ZIP codes lead nation for new apartment construction 10/20/2023 09:00am • An apartment boom has been happening in cities across the country, with more new construction in recent years than in decades — and all those new buildings in the District make a couple of D.C. neighborhoods stand out nationally. A RentCafe report says 1.2 million new rental units have popp $500K in grants for affordable housing awarded, with help from Amazon 10/17/2023 03:00pm • The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Board of Directors has approved $500,000 in grants for seven D.C.-area projects addressing the need for more affordable housing near transit centers in the region. The grants were awarded through the COG Housing Affordability Planning Program, on For all their gyrations, DC rents pretty much where they were before pandemic 09/29/2023 12:59pm • D.C.-area rental rates posted double-digit percentage declines in the early months of the COVID pandemic, when out-of-work renters led to a jump in vacancies. Rental rates recovered quickly in 2021 and 2022, when renters were returning to work. Rising rents have waned in 2023. ApartmentList repor