Real Estate Blog

With the financial clout of a national homebuilding company that's part of the Berkshire Hathaway empire at its back, an Austin-based production builder has ambitious plans to move into other Texas markets — and has more land locked down in Central Texas for new developments.

Construction on model homes will begin in June.

A new federal program aims to bring new money into poor areas that haven't seen significant job and wage growth even as the stock market and corporate earnings have boomed.

A new five-story wing will be the first addition to a National Church Residences property in Upper Arlington.

Plans submitted to the city indicate the senior community is proposing adding 166,000 square feet for 70 units of independent living at 1800 Riverside Dr. Plans show 24 one-bedroom units from 1,064 to 1,227 square feet and 46 two-bedroom units ranging from 1,283 to 2,203 square feet.

The expansion would add on to the north of the main building, and about 30 one-story garden villas would…

Long before FC Cincinnati announced its interest in building a soccer stadium in the West End, a husband and wife team started work redeveloping five buildings along Wade Street into more than 20 condos.

Joe and Rosemary Jarvis had come to Cincinnati to visit Rosemary’s son and were looking for an investment as they had recently sold a business they owned for 26 years. After seeing all of the redevelopment activity in neighboring Over-the-Rhine, they bought the buildings along Wade Street starting…

U.S. News & World Report is out with its 2018 ranking of the top places to live in the U.S. — and Charlotte again made the cut. But, the Queen City slipped a few rungs this year.

Charlotte dropped to No. 22, down eight spots from No. 14 in 2017. The accompanying slideshow shows how each metro in the Carolinas that was included on the list fared in the rankings.

The Raleigh-Durham area once again claimed the top spot in North Carolina, though it, too, fell to No. 13 from No. 7 last year.

Of Charlotte,…

Seattle is among the top five cities in the U.S. when ranked by the number of job postings in the rental housing industry.

According to a report from the National Apartment Association, 41 percent of total real estate job postings in Seattle were related to apartment industry maintenance, property management and leasing jobs.

Seattle was ranked third among major U.S. cities in the apartment jobs snapshot for February, which said that the demand is causing a shortage in apartment building maintenance…

To get the final two phases of the Mather Veterans Village project underway, the list of those involved is nearly as long as those who take part in a massive military mission.

Developer Sotiris Kolokotronis is proposing another urban infill housing project, this one a 59-unit apartment building on Broadway in Sacramento.

Troy Rodriguez has spent his career making parts for space satellites and military aircraft — so when it came time to build his home, the engineer and co-founder of Sierra Microwave Technology LLC poured the same meticulous planning into constructing a practically disaster-proof, 10,000-square-foot mansion.

The aerated concrete walls — eight to 12 inches thick — are built to withstand fire. A rainwater collection system stores 30,000 gallons of back-up water underground in the event of a natural…