Top 10 Friendliest College Towns in America

This month thousands of college students across the country headed back to campus. Skout, a global app that helps you meet new people and expand your social circle, recently reviewed 12 months of data among 18-24 year olds using its app to uncover the country’s friendliest college towns. Skout looked at college towns across the U.S. […]

Two pairs of office buildings hitting the market in SouthPark

A pair of SouthPark office buildings have been listed for sale, and two more will be on the market soon. The Dilweg Cos. recently listed the One and Two SouthPark Center buildings for sale with CBRE Group Inc., and Beacon Partners will be listing the two Fairview Center buildings for sale as soon as this week, also with CBRE. Dilweg, a commercial real estate investment and development company based in Durham, purchased the SouthPark Center buildings in 2013 for $33.5 million. One SouthPark Center…

Apartment construction hits new highs but vacancy, rental rates remain healthy

Although apartment construction in the Charlotte region continues to hit new highs, the vacancy rate for rental units in the market remains healthy and has actually dropped over the past six months while the average rental rate has increased, according to a new report. The average vacancy rate for the Charlotte region stood at 5.7% in August, down from 6.7% in February but up slightly from 5.3% a year earlier, according to research firm Real Data, which publishes reports on the multifamily market…

Top 20 Home Buying Destinations in the Americas

Whether looking for a place to retire, searching for vacation homes, or daydreaming about living “somewhere sunny and 75,” Americans are searching online for a home away from home. So where do Americans want to move? Not surprisingly, most Google searches for home listings are in laid-back tropical countries, but Canada is also in the […]

How to Use Airbnb Safely

(TNS)—The well-publicized Airbnb horror story of a young man who says he was held captive by his host in Spain this past July raises the question of how to use the popular site safely. As was widely reported by The New York Times, on NBC’s “Today” show, and elsewhere, Jacob Lopez, 19, from Massachusetts, was […]