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Ocean City hotel tax effort stalls after debate in Maryland Senate 03/24/2023 04:31am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for��Maryland Matters��� free email subscription��today. A bill that would allow counties on the Eastern Shore to hike their hotel tax rates by 1% faces an uncertain future after a debate in the DC mayor's 'comeback' budget adds traffic cameras, cuts bus routes 03/22/2023 05:33pm • D.C.'s mayor has unveiled her proposed budget for the next fiscal year. Billed as a "comeback plan," in an appearance with the D.C. Council on Wednesday morning, the budget focuses on revitalizing downtown, adding hundreds more traffic cameras throughout the District and cutting the number of DC SIXT brings Audi, Mercedes, BMW rentals to Reagan National 03/22/2023 12:29pm • SIXT will land at Reagan National Airport on April 1. (Courtesy SIXT) Fort Lauderdale-based SIXT USA, the North American division of Munich-based rental car company SIXT, will land at Reagan National Airport on April 1, with a fleet of luxury German vehicles including convertibles. Its fl The best beach towns to retire in the U.S. 03/22/2023 10:57am • Many people dream about retirement in a beach town. But a remote beach area isn't always the right fit for retirees, who also need access to amenities and services, such as quality health care and transportation options. When you think of retirement locales, Florida is probably the first state to Long & Foster co-founder Wes Foster dies 03/21/2023 01:50pm • P. Wesley "Wes" Foster, who co-founded real estate empire Long & Foster Real Estate, has died. (Courtesy Long & Foster Real Estate) P. Wesley "Wes" Foster, who co-founded real estate empire Long & Foster Real Estate, has died. He was 89. Long & Foster gave no cause of death. Why the pace of rising DC-area rents has slowed 03/20/2023 11:14am • D.C.-area apartment rents plummeted in the first year of the pandemic, with rental demand falling. But the rental market quickly recovered, with rents rising by double digits in 2021 and 2022 as demand returned. In the last year, however, the pace of rent increases has slowed. More Bus Moore vacuumed up $4.6 million for inaugural festivities 03/08/2023 12:49pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. Gov. Wes Moore (D) raised almost $4.6 million for his inaugural celebration in January �����close to three times as much money as his predec Montgomery Co. council asks Md. governor to help fend off 'massive wave of evictions' 03/08/2023 05:30am • Some 17,000 Maryland families are at risk of being evicted from their homes, and the Montgomery County Council is asking for funding to help keep that from happening. ���Higher housing costs and the looming end of assistance payments to renters could lead to a new eviction crisis,��� Council Pres DC region apartments are among the smallest, and getting smaller 03/06/2023 01:08pm • Renters sacrifice space, and renters in the D.C. region sacrifice more of it, based on research just released on average apartment sizes by market. The new RentCafe report says the average size of a rental apartment in the D.C. region is 738 square feet. That's actually 9 square feet larger than Md. lawmakers push for new safety regulations after deadly Silver Spring apartment fire 03/04/2023 11:50am • Two weeks ago, a 25-year-old woman died in an apartment fire in Silver Spring, Maryland, and now the state���s lawmakers are hoping a new bill will make complexes safer. ���We want justice,��� Cesar Diaz told our news partners at NBC Washington. More Montgomery County News More Mary Prince George���s Co. council votes to temporarily cap rent hikes at 3% 02/28/2023 08:18pm • There were a lot of emotions, among them frustration, as dozens of people showed up to implore the Prince George���s County Council in Maryland about how to vote on a bill described as ���rent stabilization��� by those who supported it and ���rent control��� by those who didn't. The legislation � Santos was questioned by Secret Service in 2017 credit card fraud probe 02/25/2023 04:02pm • When George Santos' Florida address was found in 2017 inside a rental car used by the suspect in an ATM skimming investigation, the United States Secret Service came knocking. Investigators from the agency located Santos in New York City, the future congressman's hometown, where they intervie Average renter is now 'rent-burdened' nationwide 02/22/2023 09:34am • The average American is now rent burdened, spending at least 30% of their median income on housing, according to a recent report by Moody's Analytics. The financial services company said it's the first time the nation has reached that symbolic threshold in the more than 20 years it's been trackin Prince George's Co. police give out steering wheel locks to Kia, Hyundai owners 02/20/2023 02:50pm • A long line of vehicles snaked through a parking lot of a District Heights, Maryland, shopping center on Monday. They were there because Prince George's County police were giving away 150 steering wheel locks to people who owned Hyundais and Kias. The bright yellow locks, given to the departm Maryland lawmaker unveils bill requiring landlords to give notice when raising rents more than 4% 02/17/2023 03:00pm • A Maryland lawmaker has introduced a bill that would buy renters a little more time to make a decision before their rents go up. Del. Melissa Wells introduced HB 151 in the Maryland General Assembly last month, which would require a landlord to notify a tenant of rent increases of 4% or more with