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The Dayton Business Journal is announcing its inaugural Who’s Who in Real Estate for 2018.

This special report, compiled by the DBJ editorial board, will include honorees from seven industries that play a role in the important real estate sector in the Dayton region:

Residential
Commercial
Law
Title
Lending
Builders/Developers
Architects

Note: Click the gallery above to find out the second group of 10 names, listed alphabetically, on Who's Who in Real Estate.

Related: DBJ begins revealing…

Not only is this hideaway in the mountains perfect for getting away from it all and making a dent in a book, the home's design was also broadly inspired by Henry David Thoreau's book “Walden.”

With a sleek design, tranquil setting and 10 minutes away from the nearest neighbor (by off-road vehicle), the 10,500-square-foot home called Walden House was designed by renowned architect Annabelle Selldorf, principal and founder of New York City-based Selldorf Architects.

The home at 705 Whiskey Ridge…

City approval aids Uniland project.

Sterling-based Belfort Furniture will unveil its new 85,000-square-foot showroom Saturday with a special guest appearance from the duo behind HGTV’s Property Brothers.

The event, scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., promises a special guest appearance by HGTV stars Drew and Jonathan Scott, who will read from their book, Builder Brothers: Big Plans and, perhaps, host a design question and answer session.

Belfort recommends getting there early. Obviously. These are the Property Brothers.

“We…

The company specializes in buying existing multifamily complexes and developing new ones across much of the Southeast, as well as in Austin and Round Rock.

Homes will range from the low $300,000s to more than $500,000.

After hitting severe turbulence and taking a dive in September, metro Denver’s housing market stabilized at a lower altitude in October, according to a monthly update Monday from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.

Buyers purchased 4,181 single-family homes and condos sold last month, a decline of 3.89 percent from the number of sales in September and 15.9 percent below the number of sales a year earlier.

That monthly decline was more in line with usual fall slowing than the alarming 30.5 percent drop in home sales measured between August and September.

The pendulum of market power can shift quickly after long stretches of favoring either buyers or sellers. That was the case in 2008 when the financial crisis put buyers firmly in the driver’s seat and again in 2013, when the oversupply of homes evaporated and sellers took over.

Jill Schafer, the new chairwoman of DMAR’s Market Trends Committee, said in the report that sellers are still in the driver’s seat in metro Denver.

“I..

The company plans to bring more than a dozen high-tech jobs to its new location.

This mega-builder shares three strategies contractors and developers can use to cut construction costs, keep employees motivated and ensure projects stay on schedule.

Suddenly, Crystal City is all over the national headlines as a front-runner for at least part of Amazon's HQ2. So, courtesy of the team at the Washington Business Journal, here's a short explainer about this little enclave with the funny name.

First off, it's not a city.

Crystal City is a neighborhood in Arlington County in the state of Virginia. It's an urban area that sits directly across the Potomac River from the nation's capital and within walking distance of Reagan National Airport. It's…