Browsing the blog archives for February, 2007
Browsing the blog archives for February, 2007
Pardon my shameless touting, but I find it hard to be humble when I live and work in such an outstanding city! When you couple the opportunities found in Raleigh that have to do with jobs, education and a family friendly environment, it makes a winning combination for relocating your family and for real estate investing. The Raleigh area continues [...]
The graders are out there — I saw them myself!! Development of Olde Towne is now underway in SouthEast Raleigh which should give a significant boost to SouthEast Raleigh real estate. Olde Towne is located off
Rock Quarry Road
between
Barwell Road
and
New Hope Road
. The addition of Olde Towne will certainly will also provide additional shopping convenience for [...]
When the City Fathers decided to dig up the Fayetteville Street Mall, and re-open Fayetteville Street (our “Main Street”) to traffic after thirty years, I was very disappointed. I enjoyed walking on the Mall downtown among the fountains and hot dog vendors. However, all is not lost and much to my joy, there is talk of a new downtown plaza [...]
Today, msn.com published an interesting article comparing rental markets through the US. See entire article –
http://realestate.msn.com/Rentals/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=2744671
The Raleigh residential rental market is steadily improving and fewer landlords are using incentives to attract tenants. We have a steady flow of people moving into our area and many rent until they get acquainted with the Raleigh real estate landscape before [...]
Adding to the momentum and rebirth of downtown Raleigh, the Wachovia Capitol Center, the largest office building in the Triangle was recently sold for a record-breaking $153.4 million — about twice what the sellers paid for it in 1999. Another vote of confidence for downtown Raleigh revitalization. There are many investors interested in purchasing real estate [...]