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Views on home credit mixed

BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 30 at 6:28 a.m.

The Senate's agreement to extend and expand the tax credit for homebuyers comes as a relief to many in the real estate industry.

Foreclosures on rise in Sedgwick Co.

BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 29 at 1:04 a.m.

The Wichita area appears to be losing ground in the foreclosure epidemic.

Housing prices look to have hit bottom

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 28 at 6:40 a.m.

The two latest national home price reports are moving in different directions.

Commercial real estate slump: Deals are drying up faster in Wichita

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 27 at 6:13 a.m.

Commercial deals are drying up in Wichita, falling at a faster rate than a national study indicates due to tight lending standards, experts say.

A test for DeBoer's 'can do' spirit

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 25 at 2:51 a.m.

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?

Tax credit propels homebuyers

BY ALAN ZIBEL AND ALEX Veiga, Associated Press | Oct. 24 at 12:09 a.m.

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.

Market for mobile homes experiences a sea change

BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 24 at 3:11 a.m.

It's been a decade since the mobile home industry started crashing, and the tumble continues.

City: No more funds for WaterWalk

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 22 at 9:18 a.m.

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.

Council OKs sale of former hall of fame

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 21 at 12:09 a.m.

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.

Design firm confident in downtown possibilities

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 19 at 1:40 a.m.

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.

Visioneers' next focus? Animating downtown

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 17 at 4:26 a.m.

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.

Garden Plain offers credit on new houses

BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 17 at 4:40 a.m.

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.

Visioneers check out railway corridor in Chattanooga, Tenn.

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 15 at 8:43 a.m.

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.

Wichita City Council delays decision on Sports Hall of Fame building

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 14 at 12:17 a.m.

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.

Sports Hall may house Airbus

BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 10 at 7:36 a.m.

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.

Financial aid consultants return to Wichita

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 10 at 12:07 a.m.

A Mulvane company specializing in educational financial aid consulting is returning to Wichita.

Group offers to buy Rainbows building

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 9 at 12:08 a.m.

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.

Mulvane company returning to Wichita

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 8 at 3:14 p.m.

A Mulvane company specializing in educational financial aid consulting is returning to Wichita.

Parade of Homes expects good traffic

BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 8 at 12:09 a.m.

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.

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