Lending a hand: Bank opens Charlotte operation, targets homebuilders
“The builders will have to be financially qualified with effective business models and financial discipline," said Bill Bickett, who is spearheading the creation of the Charlotte-based division of the...
View ArticleM/I Homes: Meck County’s busiest homebuilder in 2012
For many, 13 is a dreaded number, a cursed pair of digits to be avoided at all costs. But ’13 might be a year of luck and plenty for some Charlotte-area developers and real estate and construction...
View ArticleMeck homebuilding on big upswing in 2013, but lot supply shrinks
“New-home sales are way up, so much so that we’re selling off our inventories, which are still historically below accepted equilibrium levels,” said Alan Banks, president of the Home Builders...
View ArticleThe dollars and sense of density: Huntersville petitioners make the financial...
HUNTERSVILLE – Single-family residential density vs. the price of land and its development. That’s the crux of one of the hottest residential real estate development debates in many of the...
View ArticleA steep ascent: Residential permits climbing back from recessionary low
Like nails out of its own coffin, the Charlotte region’s residential construction industry pulled nearly 9,500 building permits in 2013, rising from the ashes like a phoenix with a tool belt and...
View ArticleKitchens, master suites define luxury
Luxury homes, a property niche that was hit hard by the recession, is back in popularity with buyers. Following the recent recession, interest in large and expensive homes dropped dramatically as...
View ArticleTown houses are back in town
CHARLOTTE –Call Wendy Field one of the post-recessionary urban pioneers, a bellwether for what expert observers say is a slowly re-emerging trend in Charlotte multifamily development: Small for-sale...
View ArticleMixed market message: Q2 reports show good news, bad news for new-home...
CHARLOTTE – Despite higher numbers across the board in the second quarter – in new home starts, closings and prices – don’t yet bet the house on a sustained residential construction recovery. New-home...
View ArticleBuilding permits and new home starts increase in July
A new national report issued by the U.S. Commerce Department found that in July new housing starts increased significantly to an eight-month high, after two months of disappointing results. But do the...
View ArticleAssociation hosting real estate breakfast
CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte Chapter of the Risk Management Association will hold its annual real estate breakfast from 8:30-10 a.m. Tuesday, May 5 at the Charlotte City Club. Featured speakers will be...
View ArticleDemographics boost local multifamily market
Some 45 attendees gathered at the Charlotte City Club on Tuesday morning for an update on the latest trends in real estate at an annual breakfast held by the local chapter of The Risk Management...
View ArticleIndustry experts bullish on 2016 housing, office sector
The strong growth in apartment construction near center city and a subsequent rise in vacancy rates may lead to more apartment development on the outskirts of town in the upcoming year, industry...
View ArticleReport says Charlotte housing should be “normal” in 2017
Metrostudy’s fourth quarter 2016 survey of the Charlotte housing market shows that new home builders started construction on 2,952 homes, an 18.6% increase from fourth quarter 2015, according to a...
View ArticleThe dollars and sense of density: Huntersville petitioners make the financial...
HUNTERSVILLE – Single-family residential density vs. the price of land and its development. That’s the crux of one of the hottest residential real estate development debates in many of the...
View ArticleA steep ascent: Residential permits climbing back from recessionary low
Like nails out of its own coffin, the Charlotte region’s residential construction industry pulled nearly 9,500 building permits in 2013, rising from the ashes like a phoenix with a tool belt and...
View ArticleKitchens, master suites define luxury
Luxury homes, a property niche that was hit hard by the recession, is back in popularity with buyers. Following the recent recession, interest in large and expensive homes dropped dramatically as...
View ArticleTown houses are back in town
CHARLOTTE –Call Wendy Field one of the post-recessionary urban pioneers, a bellwether for what expert observers say is a slowly re-emerging trend in Charlotte multifamily development: Small for-sale...
View ArticleMixed market message: Q2 reports show good news, bad news for new-home...
CHARLOTTE – Despite higher numbers across the board in the second quarter – in new home starts, closings and prices – don’t yet bet the house on a sustained residential construction recovery. New-home...
View ArticleBuilding permits and new home starts increase in July
A new national report issued by the U.S. Commerce Department found that in July new housing starts increased significantly to an eight-month high, after two months of disappointing results. But do the...
View ArticleAssociation hosting real estate breakfast
CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte Chapter of the Risk Management Association will hold its annual real estate breakfast from 8:30-10 a.m. Tuesday, May 5 at the Charlotte City Club. Featured speakers will be...
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