Builders offer new twist on move-up incentive
Instead of offering to help would-be buyers of new houses sell their old homes, Marketplace is offering to become a rental property manager for as long as six years.
Instead of offering to help would-be buyers of new houses sell their old homes, Marketplace is offering to become a rental property manager for as long as six years.
How does the owner of F.C. Tucker Co. rally the troops during the home-sales slump? How did his tour in Vietnam reset his course? Why is his desk always so clean? Talk to Jim Litten; he has answers.
The median sale price of homes across the state rose to $100,000 during January, up 5 percent when compared to the same month last year.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county central Indiana region fell 12.2 percent in January compared to the same month in 2010, the ninth straight month in which year-over-year sales slumped locally.
Ambrose Property Group, a commercial leasing and development company headed by former Duke Realty Corp. broker Aasif Bade, took over for Brenwick, which is primarily a residential developer, at the beginning of the year.
Home-sale agreements last month dropped 15.4 percent compared to December 2009, capping a year in which sales overall dropped 10.9 percent from the previous year.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county central Indiana region dropped 17.5 percent in November compared to the same month a year ago, the seventh straight month that year-over-year home sales have slumped.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county central Indiana region plunged 40.7 percent in October compared to the same month a year ago, according to a report released Thursday morning by F.C. Tucker Co.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county area fell 22.8 percent in September when compared with the same month a year earlier, according to a report released Tuesday by F.C. Tucker Co.
Lucas Oil Products Inc. owners Forrest and Charlotte Lucas confirmed they were buying the property for $3 million at a news conference Wednesday afternoon. It will be used for “business activities and community functions.”
August makes the ninth month in a row that the pace of homes lost to foreclosure has increased on an annual basis. Banks have been stepping up repossessions to clear out their backlog of bad loans.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county area fell 23 percent in August. The decline marked the fourth straight month home sales have fallen in central Indiana.
Sealed-bid auction attracts a half-dozen bids from interested owners that are “more centrally located than you might think,”
said the listing agent.
July’s 27-percent decline marked the third straight month that home sales have slumped in central Indiana following three
straight months of improving sales spurred by generous federal tax credits.
The housing market had boomed earlier in the year on the strength of federal tax credits. Since they have expired, the number
of people looking to buy has dropped even with the lowest mortgage rates in decades.
The foreclosure epidemic has left a wake of carnage in the Indianapolis area.
Until this year, Indiana’s foreclosure epidemic knew no demographic boundaries. But suddenly that’s changed. Since March,
not a single foreclosure on a house priced at $1 million or more has been filed in the Indianapolis area—a possible
sign of better times for uber-expensive homes.
With the first baby boomers set to turn 65 in six months, investments in senior housing are heating up. A group of Indianapolis-area
professionals—including Mark Waterfill (left) and Tony Schantz—have banded together to launch three senior housing
projects around the state, spending $49 million and looking
to do more.
However, average home-sale prices for the area sprouted 7 percent from the same month a year earlier, to more than $159,000.
Auction turns up no buyers for the former home of the commanding general at Fort Benjamin Harrison and four condominiums at
the old Army base.