Views on home credit mixed
The Senate's agreement to extend and expand the tax credit for homebuyers comes as a relief to many in the real estate industry.
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The Senate's agreement to extend and expand the tax credit for homebuyers comes as a relief to many in the real estate industry.
The Wichita area appears to be losing ground in the foreclosure epidemic.
The two latest national home price reports are moving in different directions.
Commercial deals are drying up in Wichita, falling at a faster rate than a national study indicates due to tight lending standards, experts say.
Jack DeBoer's license plate says "Can Do." That's downtown Wichita's latest question: Can one of the city's legendary entrepreneurs lure retail and entertainment business to his struggling WaterWalk development?
WASHINGTON — Racing to complete their purchases before a tax credit for first-time owners expires, homebuyers pushed sales up last month by the largest amount in more than 26 years.
It's been a decade since the mobile home industry started crashing, and the tumble continues.
Wichita city officials say they're eager to see entrepreneur Jack DeBoer's plans for WaterWalk, the embattled 7-year-old downtown development along the Arkansas River.
The Wichita City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday morning to sell the former Kansas Sports Hall of Fame building at 238 N. Mead for $1.43 million to Dave Burk's Marketplace Properties.
David Dixon laughs at the question: Can Wichita's downtown be successfully redeveloped? "Certainly," said Dixon, the principal in charge of urban planning and design at Goody, Clancy & Associates in Boston. Dixon's firm has a $500,000 contract to pull together a vision of what Wichitans want from their downtown.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —The work begins now for Visioneering Wichita's 63-member team after it completed a three-day look Friday at how the nation's "dirtiest city" turned itself around over 40 years.
Asecond town has decided to institute incentives to encourage people to buy new homes. Garden Plain this week passed a new policy to give buyers of new houses there a credit of $3,000 to $6,000 off their water and sewer bills.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Visioneering Wichita's 63-member contingent got a look Wednesday afternoon at a three-block railway corridor in downtown Chattanooga that blends the city's history into a Riverwalk art and entertainment corridor.
With two late-arriving offers in hand, the Wichita City Council on Tuesday put off for a week a decision on the fate of the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame building at 238 N. Mead.
Old Town developer David Burk has submitted a $1.43 million bid to the city of Wichita to buy the former Kansas Sports Hall of Fame building.
A Mulvane company specializing in educational financial aid consulting is returning to Wichita.
An anonymous group of local investors has a $1 million contract to buy the Rainbows United building at 340 S. Broadway, allowing the nonprofit child services organization to remain there on a long-term lease.
A Mulvane company specializing in educational financial aid consulting is returning to Wichita.
The 2009 Fall Parade of Homes kicks off Saturday for three weekends and about 200 homes ranging in price from $100,000 to more than $2 million.