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Columbus hotels busy as forecasts predict growth
Hotel developers continue to look at Central Ohio as an opportunity.
Waiting for a better buyer’s market for homes? Better get comfortable
The market for homes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro, which for the past year has given sellers most of the power, could stay that way until 2020, according to a new report.
The Star Tribune reports on the latest quarterly Home Price Expectations Survey from real-estate statistics site Zillow, which sampled industry experts on when the market would tilt more towards the buyer. Three quarters of respondents said it would be 2020 or later.
You can read Zillow's own take on the research here.
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Deals Day: Builder buys lots in Frisco for affordable townhomes
Megatel Homes plans to expand Wade Settlement, a townhome development in Frisco.
The homebuilder has acquired 100 finished lots from competitor Siena Homes and plans to build three- and four-bedroom townhomes on the site, in addition to the 200 lots it already has under contract in the community.
Wade Settlement is located at the intersection of Parkwood Boulevard and Highway 289. Twenty-two of its townhomes have been pre-sold before the community’s first model home is expected to open next…
New residents are flocking to Dallas. Where are they coming from?
Governor Greg Abbott is going to like this.
Each year, more people move to Dallas County, with the most recent census numbers showing that Californians continue to flock here in higher numbers than anyone else.
Who can blame them? We have a lower cost of doing business, a booming state economy, and you can’t forget our lack of income tax. While the traffic may be bad here, we still shave off a couple minutes from the 30-minute commute in Los Angeles County.
Though Californians are trading…
Lodge on Chautauqua Lake coming to Mayville
Several years in the planning, Mayville’s Webb family has set a spring date to begin construction of its Lodge at Chautauqua Lake condo project.
At $12 million and with the development of at least 25 condos overlooking Chautauqua Lake, the project is one of the largest private sector-backed developments in Mayville in recent years.
“Mayville is really primed for this sort of development,” said Mark Geise, Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency CEO and deputy county executive for…
(PHOTOS) Former New England Patriot Ty Law sells Florida home for $1.9M
Ty Law, who won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, has sold his Florida home for $1.89 million.
The 5,500-square-foot home on Hawks Vista Street in Plantation, Florida, was sold to Kirk R. Russell and Lisa A. Russell. The price equated to $343 per square foot.
Law was represented in the deal by Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate’s Barbara Shapiro.
Built on a 26,016-square-foot site in 2003, the home has six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms. It’s in the Hawks Landing neighborhood,…
Re/Max Results franchisee John Collopy grows Twin Cities market reach
In the 1970s, Collopy was an alcoholic and struggling professionally. Today, he's one of the largest owners of Re/Max Results franchises in the country.
Task force: City of Atlanta should invest $1 billion in affordable housing
HouseATL’s goals are for $500 million in public resources and $500 million in private resources to be invested in 24,000 new and preserved affordable housing units over the next eight years.
Final home designed by renowned architect for sale in Paradise Valley
The final home designed by renowned Phoenix architect George Christensen is on the market in Paradise Valley.
Listed by agents Jan Kabbani and Cliff Davis of Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, the 6,578-square-foot, five-bed and 6.5-bath property at 7307 N Black Rock Trail is on sale for $3.65 million. Built in 2004, the home was completed a year after Christensen passed away and was the final design he released before his death.
The property has a number of noteworthy features including…
Amazon putting finishing touches on new office building near Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall
Google opened the first phase of its shiny new Boulder campus this past winter, and now a different tech giant is giving local economic development officials and pending computer science grads another reason to celebrate.
This fall, Amazon will move dozens of advertising-focused engineers into a three-story office building in the heart of Boulder at 1900 15th St., company officials said Wednesday.
The e-commerce powerhouse has created more than 1,500 warehouse and office jobs in what it refers to as the Denver-Boulder-Broomfield “tech hub” in the last two years, company officials say.
“We knew we going to grow quickly,” said Tim Craycroft, Amazon’s vice president of multi-channel advertising who will be leading the crew at the 37,000-square-foot space. “We’re excited about being in Boulder and the talent pool that is here. We’re just getting started.”
A grand opening date hasn’t been nailed down, Craycroft said, but he and his team, now working at a shared office space in downtown ..