Real Estate Blog

The film industry in Wilmington is ready to take off now that the actors' strike is ending.

Modesto-based Graceada Partners has targeted the sweet spot in current industrial trends, buying a three-building property with about 300,000 square feet of space in Elk Grove.

The nation's housing affordability crisis has been exacerbated by rapid home-price appreciation, demolition of naturally affordable housing to make way for more expensive new housing and an anemic construction pipeline coming out of the Great Recession.

Recently passed legislation provides the latest activity in the ongoing battle between the “not in my backyard” — or NIMBY — opposition to various housing developments and the more-nascent “yes in my backyard” YIMBY counter-movement.

It's not just any Denver apartment, however.

What's now popularly called missing-middle housing has existed in some form or another for more than a century. But the term “missing middle,” to describe housing that falls between a traditional single-family home and a midrise apartment building in density and scope, was officially coined by Daniel Parolek in 2010.

The property was D.C.'s first air-conditioned hotel.

Agate plans to convert the shuttered property into homes for low-income residents.

The property spans more than 25 acres.

The 10-highest priced residential sales collected the week ending Nov. 3 from Guilford, Forsyth, Alamance, Davidson and Randolph counties.