Report: 2012 home sales up 9 percent in Wichita area
The number of new and existing houses sold in the Wichita area increased in December, according to a report Wednesday from the South Central Kansas Multiple Listing Service.
The number of new and existing houses sold in the Wichita area increased in December, according to a report Wednesday from the South Central Kansas Multiple Listing Service.
Unique is one of the most overused words in real estate, but it might actually be the right one for the Kellogg School apartment conversion project.
New apartment projects and rebounding area home sales were the highlights of the residential real estate sector in 2012, while industrial parks and spec buildings dominated the commercial real estate sector.
Generally, December is not the best time of the year to sell a home, especially a new home.
Downtown Wichita’s on-again, off-again $65 million Exchange Place apartment project is on again under new management.
A Texas residential real estate developer has acquired Real Development’s Exchange Place project in downtown Wichita, reviving what city officials proclaimed a dead project earlier this fall.
Wichita area home sales continue to climb, even during a time of the year when house purchases typically slow.
Willie Kihle said he and Mona Stein weren’t actively looking to sell their real estate firm, Prudential Dinning-Beard, when officials from the PenFed Group came calling.
Old Town developer Dave Burk has been named this year’s recipient of the Kansas CCIM Chapter/Wichita State University Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award.
Spec buildings, particularly those for industrial and warehouse use, have gotten a lot of attention lately.
Home builder Jack Ritchie thinks some consumers are gaining confidence in the economy and their own situation to buy new homes.
Kirk Humphreys said it looks to him like Wichita is doing a good job revitalizing its downtown.
The developers behind the STAR bond district at K-96 and Greenwich in northeast Wichita are considering another STAR bond project to the west of the city, in Goddard.
The city of Bel Aire held a ceremonial groundbreaking on Monday for the first phase of an 800-acre light industrial and manufacturing park, Sunflower Commerce Park.
QuikTrip hopes to build as many as two more Generation 3 stores in Wichita, and an official of the company says that’s the model QuikTrip will go with when building new stores.
Real Development, the Minnesota group whose downtown Wichita work has been stymied because they say they’re out of money, is proposing a destination resort worth hundreds of million dollars – and partially funded by public incentives – near the Georgia/Florida border.
Greg Fox sees a number of trends in the housing market that he thinks are good.
Home prices in the Wichita area will rise 1.3 percent next year, after falling in 2011 and 2012, according a new housing forecast.
Wichita’s commercial real estate market will likely mimic the area job market in 2013, stable but sluggish.