Three years after opening, Indiana Design Center fills
Tenants include interior designers, artists, kitchen cabinet firms.
Tenants include interior designers, artists, kitchen cabinet firms.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area spiked 17.2 percent in January compared to the same month a year earlier, suggesting last year's housing recovery continues to gain momentum.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area jumped 12.2 percent in December, marking a 20th straight month of gains and capping off a strong year for residential real estate.
Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its HomeServices of America unit, bought a majority stake in the Prudential and Real Living real estate franchises from Brookfield Asset Management.
PulteGroup Inc. has purchased 24 acres in the Anson development near Whitestown in Boone County and plans to build 36 homes. Long-range plans call for 255 homes on 145 acres.
Encore Sotheby’s local office represented seller in the $3.8 million sale to a local buyer.
With information booming online, agents are offering more services.
Sales of existing homes in the Indianapolis area are off to a strong start in 2012, with the number of sales agreements increasing 13.4 percent in January compared with the same month a year earlier.
Closed sales last year inched up 1.2 percent in 13 area counties and jumped 18.3 percent from July through December, bolstered by a 7.2-percent increase during the last month of 2011.
About 12,000 homes were listed for sale at the end of December in the nine-county central Indiana market, a roughly 18-percent drop from a year earlier.
For the third year in a row, Bif Ward has taken the top spot on IBJ’s annual list of All-Star Agents.
Sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area fell 20 percent in March compared to the same month of 2010. Local home sales have been in a downward spiral for nearly a year.
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.
Bringing Carmel and Avon offices under the Prudential brand should help the agency increase its presence in the metropolitan area, particularly on the west side.
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.
Health care shows signs of life, and multi-family buildings continue to hold their own, experts said during a recent IBJ Power Breakfast.
IBJ has compiled its All-Star Agents lists annually since 1997. Agents are ranked by their sales volume over a two-year
period.
However, average home-sale prices for the area sprouted 7 percent from the same month a year earlier, to more than $159,000.
Homes sold in the first three months of the year totaled 4,634, a 1-percent increase from the 4,593 in the
same period last year. However, total sales volume jumped 12 percent, to $637 million.