Expert Ways to Increase Home Value

With housing prices at recent highs, it’s a great time to sell; and still-low interest rates also make it a good time to buy a home.  Findings from a new, exclusive survey of more than 300 licensed residential real estate agents by the Consumer Reports National Research Center point to certain factors, such as smart […]

A More Robust Year for Housing in 2015

NAHB hosted an economic and housing outlook seminar at its International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas inviting Frank Nothaft, chief economist at Freddie Mac, and David Berson, chief economist at Nationwide Insurance, to join David Crowe to discuss the outlook for 2015. Here’s the highlights. A strengthening labor market, low interest rates, improving mortgage availability […]

Forestar makes huge land purchase in Huntersville area, buying nearly 230 acres for $11.8 million

Forestar Group Inc., a real estate and oil and gas company based in Texas, has purchased 229 acres of land just east of Huntersville for $11.8 million, according to real estate records. The assemblage is between Ramah Church Road and Huntersville-Concord Road, between the Centennial at Historic Huntersville subdivision and the Oehler Nature Preserve, about two miles east of Huntersville. The bulk of the land, which is zoned for neighborhood residential, is on Fred Brown Road and was sold to Forestar…