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Home Depot to add 450 Charlotte-area employees ahead of busy spring season
How do you know that spring is quickly approaching in the Charlotte region? Answer: The big-box, home-improvement stores are hiring employees for their busiest season.
The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) said today that it’s hiring 450 employees in 13 Charlotte-area stores, emphasizing that applying for a job takes only about 15 minutes. Job seekers can even text the world’s largest home-improvement retailer to start the application process.
“About half of those transition into permanent roles,”…
Realty Austin buys another brokerage for first time
Combined, the two companies are expected to have more than 600 agents and more than 10 percent of market share. Executives expect more of these mergers between independent brokerages as they try to keep up with the digitization of realty.
How Big Tech’s hunger bites Silicon Valley’s innovation economy
The rise of Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook and Google have brought incredible wealth to the region, but their continuing domination might end up putting a damper on the innovation-nurturing conditions that allowed them to grow in the first place.
With $76B in economic impact and counting, here’s where AllianceTexas is headed next
In the 30 years since Fort Worth’s AllianceTexas first took shape, the master-planned development has generated a whopping $76.43 billion in economic impact, according to Hillwood.
Confidence wanes in Massachusetts housing market
As Beacon Hill looks to restart talks over a housing production bill, signed home and condo sale agreements in Massachusetts were each up more than 20 percent in January, compared to the same month in 2018, marking a full year of monthly increases in pending sales and providing a glimpse of where the 2019 market is heading.
The Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that the median price for a pending home sale in January rose 3 percent over January 2018, from just under $370,000…
Houston home sales drop in January, prices inch up
After a record-breaking 2018, Houston’s housing market kicked off 2019 with a decrease in activity, which experts have been expecting.
Single-family home sales and total property sales both plummeted more than 8 percent year over year to 4,100 and 5,011, respectively, the Houston Association of Realtors reports. Every pricing segment of single-family homes also saw decreases in sales.
Total dollar volume was down 4.4 percent to $1.34 billion. However, both the average and the median sales price…
Exclusive: Developer envisions $275M ‘urban center’ in Hilliard (slideshow)
Developer Dwight McCabe is planning a 360-acre mixed-used village in Hilliard centered at the northwest corner of Roberts and Alton Darby Creek Roads.
Camelot Homes breaks ground on Valley luxury project
Scottsdale-based builder will focus on homes priced from the mid $700,000s to the low $900,000s in Gilbert.
Dallas investor buys 200 more San Antonio apartments
The property was last assessed for $14.2 million, according to the Bexar County Appraisal District.
Michelin-starred restaurateur debuts trifecta of Japanese food offerings in luxury apartment project
It's hard enough to open a single restaurant in San Francisco — let alone three in the same place, simultaneously. Kash Feng, owner of Michelin-starred Omakase, recently opened three eateries on the ground floor of Equity Residential's One Henry Adams apartment complex.