Adam Longshore said the buildup was slow and steady before things exploded about three years ago in Lawrenceville, a once-gritty and hilly pocket of tightly packed row houses along the south side of the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. Now the neighborhood's housing market is the talk of the town.
"Everyone wants to know where the next Lawrenceville is going to be," said Longshore, a Keller Williams Realty agent with several listings in what is arguably Pittsburgh's hottest housing market.