Brookfield Residential designs sustainable model home in DC metro
Near Bristow, Va., publicly traded homebuilder Brookfield Residential has created what is being dubbed as one the most energy-efficient model homes in the D.C. metro area. Referred to as “PureBlue,”...
View ArticleLuxury and top schools abound in Hillsborough
The wealth of its residents combined with an abundance of luxury homes, highly touted schools and specific zoning make Hillsborough an exclusive town. Located roughly 17 miles south of San Francisco in...
View ArticlePalm Beach County witness to increasing multi-million dollar home purchases
Last month overall single-family homes sales activity in Palm Beach County was down; however, recent data suggests the demand for $1 million-plus homes is increasing. According to brief from Rabideau...
View ArticleSpring home sales in mid-Atlantic are expected to be bright
More than half — 57 percent — of mid-Atlantic real estate professionals are optimistic that this year’s spring home sales market will outdo last year. According to a Metropolitan Regional Information...
View ArticleKaty is a growing community with great schools
Incorporated in 1945, the city of Katy lies roughly 30 miles from downtown Houston and is located near the western edge of greater Katy – a region of Houston that continues to grow via new multifamily...
View ArticleFamily-friendly Aliso Viejo is one of California’s best
Situated just inland of Laguna Beach, Aliso Viejo is known as a top city in California for families. The south Orange County, mostly master-planned community was recently ranked by WalletHub as the...
View ArticleSan Fernando Valley inventory expected to stall this year
You’d think sluggish existing home sales activity would benefit a market’s inventory, but in the San Fernando Valley that’s not the case. During the first two months of this year 652 existing...
View ArticleSanta Clarita Valley home prices to plateau this year says Southland Regional...
Santa Clarita Valley home prices rose by more than 8 percent year-over-year in February; however, on a month-to-month basis values were unchanged – backing up the forecast that price growth will...
View ArticleHome sales in Houston occurring further from urban core
A significant volume of homes purchased last year in the greater Houston metro were located far afield from the city’s “urban core.” According to Redfin, a home purchased in 2015 was a median distance...
View ArticleShirlington is an urban village with small town charm
Dubbed an “urban village,” Shirlington is known as a pedestrian-oriented suburb of Washington, D.C. Located in Arlington County, the unincorporated village was originally developed in the 1940’s with...
View ArticleHousing costs are pricing Bay Area teachers out of their districts
Teachers’ salaries in a number of Bay Area school districts are among the highest statewide; however, attracting and retaining teachers in the Bay remains a challenge primarily because of housing...
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RealtyTrac finds gas leak has negatively impacted Porter Ranch’s home sales...
In the wake of the late October 2015 Porter Ranch gas leak, which sent nearly 100,000 metric tons of methane into the atmosphere, several area real estate agents cited that minimal buyers were...
View ArticleLong & Foster to host company-wide open house weekend
During the spring selling season expect larger real estate companies and brokerages to host company-wide open house weekends with the goal of showcasing homes to a larger pool of buyers. And DC’s most...
View ArticleQuarter of all Texas-based tech employees work in Houston
Of the more than 585,000 Texans that comprise the state’s tech sector, nearly 142,000 work in the Houston metro. However, Houston’s tech sector has grown minimally of late, as in 2015 the industry’s...
View ArticleChicago condos put on display four years before completion
The volume of high-rise condo projects recently underway or proposed in Chicago is influencing developers to open sales offices up to four years in advance of a development’s completion. In early...
View ArticleCommunity spotlight: Piedmont
Nestled in the East Bay Hills, the city of Piedmont is considered to be among the top suburbs in the entire nation. Business Insider recently ranked the foothill community of 11,000 as the sixth best,...
View ArticleResidential construction speeding up in the Chicago metro, says Dodge Data...
So far this year, residential construction starts activity in the Chicago-Naperville-Joliet metro is up noticeably on a year-over-year basis. During the first two months of this year, residential...
View ArticleTurnkey opportunities await luxury buyers in Los Angeles
Within the Los Angeles luxury housing market, a growing trend appears to be the availability of turnkey, teardown-type acquisition opportunities. Currently Coldwell Banker Previews International is...
View ArticleAvailable homes in DC on the rise in March
Washington, D.C.’s for-sale housing inventory is starting to build during a period of increased sales activity. At the end of March, supply in the district was up by nearly 22 percent year-over-year,...
View ArticleBay Area home values exceed pre-recession prices
Within five Bay Area counties median home prices have fully recovered and exceed pre-recession (2006) figures noticeably, according to the California State Board of Equalization (BOE) San Francisco and...
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