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New single-family building permits were up 5 percent in Wake County in February, according to data compiled by the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County. Permits were up 60 percent in Apex, 51 percent in Rolesville, 19 percent in Fuquay-Varina, 21 percent in Raleigh, 9 percent in Cary and 16 percent in Knightdale. The only […]

The Triangle town house market, which hit rock bottom in 2011, continues to make a strong comeback as a recovering housing market and rising land costs make it an attractive alternative for buyers and builders. The market is continually growing in popularity, and townhomes make an efficient use of increasingly less property space available. There […]

Recently, a report was published by Realtor.com which documented the top 10 markets for first time home buyers in the upcoming home buying season. First-time buyers have a widespread impact on the local housing markets. In transitioning from renters to owners, new buyers pay property taxes and other fees and taxes associated with homeownership that […]

A new real estate trend has started popping up in areas like Seattle, San Francisco, Raleigh and D.C. After dissecting housing reports Trulia found that prices were generally 82% higher in big tech hubs compared to other large metro cities. While engineers and highly paid coders are well paid in the industry, the cost of […]

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So where do the “self-consciously artsy creative-class would-be bohemians” congregate in the Triangle? A recent poll of Gawker readers shows that in Raleigh, it was a tie between the Boylan Heights neighborhood on the outskirts of downtown Raleigh and Carrboro. Technically Carrboro is a town 30 miles away, but it is still around the Research […]

A new study that compared 100 most populous metros has found the fastest growing cities in the nation, and the study rated these places based on six metrics. Using data from Moody’s Analytics, we assessed the estimated rates of population growth for 2013 and 2014, year-over-year job growth for 2013, and the rate of gross […]

As we begin the New Year, there are some real estate predictions made for the country in regards to areas that are projected to grow, to do well, and to gain in popularity and price. One area that has been named on this list is our very own Raleigh. Growth of the local economy centers […]

Recently, Nerd Wallet published a list of the best places to own a home in the US. The analysis was made on questions like home availability (supply), home affordability, and projected potential growth of the area. From there, US regions were divided by small, medium, and large metros. Leading the pack of large metros, we […]

The foreclosure rate in the Winston-Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area dropped in November from the same period last year, CoreLogic, a national real-estate research group reported Wednesday. The findings show that the foreclosure rate was 1.38 percent of outstanding mortgage loans in November, which is lower than the November 2013 figure of 2.03 percent and also […]

Forty-nine apartment buildings sold for a sum of $1.334 billion in 2013, according to real estate firm CBRE. That total isn’t the final tally for the year, but it beats the previous record of $1.16 billion set in 2012. For the second consecutive year, the Triangle has set a record for apartment transactions in a […]