STEVENSVILLE Lisa Miller has joined Exit Gold Realty in Stevensville.

Chuck LLC to Jennifer A. Taylor and Brandon T. Taylor, $164,900, 8041 Dover Neck Road, Easton, first election district.

WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. home prices fell in most major cities for the second straight month, further evidence that the housing recovery will be bumpy and weigh on the broader economy in 2012.

EASTON - A Waterside Village representative notified the Easton Town Council Monday that developers will scrap a plan for a hotel and reduce the size of Phase II by about 60 percent when the latest plan is proposed next year.

EASTON The developer of Locust Commons outlined at Monday's Easton Town Council meeting the proposed amendment to the Planned Unit Development during a public hearing.

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY When Gabriel Rodriguez-Rico and Danielle Dean met one recent Saturday in Prince George's County to help residents of foreclosed homes, they ended up heeding, in a way, the advice they were handing out: "Don't move. Don't panic. You have time."

QUEENSTOWN Hunters Oak golf course and country club in Queentown is scheduled for public bank auction Dec. 20.

DENTON Jeff Wright, owner and broker of Wright Real Estate in Denton, has been named the 2012 chairman of the Maryland Association of Realtors Public Policy Committee.

WASHINGTON (AP) This should be a great time to buy a first home. Prices have sunk to 2002 levels. Sellers are waiting anxiously as homes languish on the market. Mortgage rates are their lowest ever.

DENTON About 20 parishioners of Greater New Hope Church and Ministries were in attendance Tuesday night at the Caroline County Commissioners' meeting to voice their support for a rezoning request for 13 acres of land in Preston.

EASTON The Mid-Shore Board of Realtors recently donated $1,200 to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation in Caroline, Dorchester and Talbot counties.

CHESTER Local business and community members turned out in force at the Nov. 10 Queen Anne's County Planning Commission to support development of residential apartments in Chester.

ROCK HALL The northern end of Main Street in Rock Hall has received a makeover.

SHERWOOD Langdon Farm, a slate-roofed, 18th-century brick colonial touted as "a true treasure of Talbot County," is on the market with a listing price of just less than $13 million.

EASTON The National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials recently appointed Don Bibb, executive director of the Housing Commission of Talbot County, to serve a two-year term on its International Committee.

EASTON Judy Germaine-Dinges has joined Coldwell Banker Chesapeake Real Estate's Easton office as a full-time sales associate.

DENTON Now that the Denton Town Council officially has voted to deed two rundown, vacant lots in town to Caroline County Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit agency can look forward to beginning its next big project before it completes the Lake Creek Court development in Federalsburg.

BALI, INDONESIA (AP) Off Bali's beaten track, past a towering banyan tree and next to an ancient Hindu temple, the world's largest bamboo commercial structure slowly is taking shape: a chocolate factory.

EASTON After hearing a more complete proposal from the developer of Locust Commons, the Easton Planning and Zoning Commission recommended on Oct. 20 the town council approve the proposed amendment to the Planned Unit Development to allow for eight single-family detached homes in the development, rather than 12 attached townhomes.

EASTON After serving as president of the Mid-Shore Board of Realtors during what he described as a "very busy year," Lee Holt passed the gavel Thursday, Oct. 20, to incoming president Valerie Brown at the organization's installation of officers and directors.

Dressing up's the name of the game on Halloween, but it's just as much fun to dress up the front of the house.

EASTON The Mid-Shore Board of Realtors will award $10,000 to up to three local charities with the funds it received for being named the recipient of the Maryland Board of Realtors' 2011 Community Action and Realtor Excellence Award.

EASTON Exit Latham Realty recently was named the exclusive regional affiliate for the Maestro Luxury and Express Auction for Real Estate from the only in-office Express Auction division on the Eastern Shore.

ANNAPOLIS Willow Construction LLC of Easton earned three awards at the Chesapeake Shores chapter of the Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC) Excellence in Construction, STEP and Safety Awards Ceremony, held Sept. 29 in Annapolis.