Would you be happy living in a skyscraper and never going outside? It sounds depressing or perhaps dystopic, but what if that skyscraper contained everything you enjoyed about the outside world, like the beaches and the forests?
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10 homeowner tax breaks you should be taking advantage of
If death and taxes are the two true givens in life, there probably should be a third: the bucketful of tax breaks Uncle Sam throws out every year to encourage more Americans to buy a home.
The price: $219,000, in a county where median home prices hit $782,000 last month. The catch: It's a manufactured home -- a classy new spin on the old prefab "mobile" home.
Walnut Creek-based investment firm Vertical Ventures bought Eastmont Town Center's 541,390-square-foot office portion. It is 75 percent leased to tenants including Alameda County, the Oakland Public Library and Planned Parenthood. The Oakland Police Department also operates a station that was part of the sale.
