Archive for Raleigh News

Keeping up with Raleigh’s Hillsborough Street’s changes

If you travel Hillsborough Street then you have seen the craziness for months now. The new round-a-bouts are looking great and the improved streetscape is taking shape.  According to recent reports, construction on the south side of the street is wrapping up. Traffic will be switched to the south side for the whole corridor sometime in March.
To keep [...]

Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley is focus of new study

From the City of Raleigh Website:
The City of Raleigh Public Works Department and project consultant Louis Berger Group, Inc. will hold an open house meeting for the Crabtree Valley Transportation Study on Monday, March 1, 7:00 p.m. at the Laurel Hills Community Center, 3808 Edwards Mill Road.
The City of Raleigh is conducting a long-range transportation [...]

North Raleigh Home Sales Report

Curious what North Raleigh homes sales look like as we head into 2010? Below is a graph showing market activity for area 2 (As shown on the graph map above) using sales data from Triangle MLS, the local multiple listing service for the Raleigh area:

North Raleigh property sales

The end of the graph looks pretty nice, huh? Active listings drop [...]

Harris Teeter takes North Hills location to new heights

Harris Teeter is scheduled to open their first 2-story store in Raleigh at the new North Hills expansion along Six Forks Road in North Raleigh.  This new store will replace to old location around the corner at the Lassiter at North Hills while adding 26,000 square feet and 50 new associates, according to a company [...]

Raleigh’s job forecast helps steady housing prices

Why has the housing market in Raleigh fared better than other markets that have crashed and burned? Ask economists from outside our area and they will like point to employment forecasts that look pretty healthy for Raleigh. Stan Humphries, Chief Economic Officer for Zillow.com (As opposed to the famed Quarter Back who led the San Diego [...]

How does Raleigh housing compare to boom markets?

Raleigh has taken some lumps during the real estate downtown but as you can see in the graph below, our pricing has outperformed the US average, Atlanta and the boom markets of Orlando, FL and Phoenix, AZ. I included Atlanta because of their explosive growth and the fact that they are a leading southern city. I included [...]

North Raleigh: Stonehenge to see new homes?

I haven’t spent much time chatting up new developments this year for obvious reasons but I browsed through the City of Raleigh Plans in Review page this morning and read an interesting subdivision proposal. Situated along Howard Road just before the intersection of Ray Road the proposed subdivision will be called Stonehenge Park and have [...]