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Meet Parker Blanchard, who launched his own real estate investment firm, Blanchard Real Estate, in 2011.

Recap of the week's top real estate news in Atlanta.

The 1.4 million-square-foot project would provide new residential and office space, hotel rooms and a trade school.

It's one of the last large tracts that hasn't been developed along the interstate.

D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson warned Friday that the Bowser administration's proposed tax increases on commercial real estate could be a significant drag on the District's economy despite the fact that revenues have continued to rise significantly for the past few years.

Mendelson, speaking at the Downtown D.C. Business Improvement District's annual State of Downtown forum, said Mayor Muriel Bowser's fiscal 2020 budget could have a ripple effect on things ranging from property sales to hotel…

More than 4,000 homes were sold in Greater Baltimore last month, a 34.5 percent year-over-year increase, according to new data from Redfin.

Despite the increase, the median sales price of homes in the Baltimore area dropped 0.8 percent year-over-year to $255,000.

This week's List takes a look at the companies that are giving out the mortgages to buyers.

Quicken Loans Inc. jumped up to the No. 1 spot with $508.66 million in local mortgages in 2018, or 5.2 percent market share. The lender's average…

Bridgeland, an 11,400-acre master-planned community in northwest Houston, is focusing its latest phase around parks.

The Howard Hughes Corp. (NYSE: HHC), the Dallas-based developer behind Bridgeland, announced a key feature of the new Parkland Village phase will be a mile-long “linear park” called Parkland Commons. The feature will not only provide residents with typical park amenities, but it also will connect them to Bridgeland’s schools, according to a press release.

“Parkland Common…

The trends in the Triangle housing market over the first quarter of 2019 closely resembled that of the first quarter a year ago. Those being inventory growth, house price increases and days on the market increases, along with dips in re-sale inventory on homes priced below $300,000.

That’s according to the latest Triangle Area Residential Realty report by appraiser Stacey Anfindsen.

The TARR report also reveals that first quarter records were set in the following metrics: number of pending listings…

Jacksonville just keeps booming.

The metro population jumped to an estimated 1,534,701 people as of July 1, 2018, according to Census newly released data. That was an increase of 2. percent from the previous year, the fastest growth of any metro with at least 1 million residents.

That means the Jacksonville metro added 30,694 people from 2017 to 2018, or about 84 a day. Taking a deeper look at the data, there was a natural increase of 4,367 people (13,068 births versus 8,701 deaths) and net migration…

Downtown D.C. saw booms in development and tourism last year, but also notched a record-high office vacancy rate and sluggish employment growth, according to a new report.

The Downtown D.C. Business Improvement District’s annual “State of Downtown” report for 2018 paints a largely rosy picture of the economic prospects for the District’s core. Even still, the report released Friday notes the neighborhood is coping with a “tenants’ market” in the office sector, while the retail vacancy…