Pittsburgh Homes Daily

What is there to do in Pittsburgh, September 23 and 24th? 
As I previously mentioned, there are two home tours in Pittsburgh this weekend.  Today is the Historic Bethel Park Presbyterian Church and House Tour.  On Sunday, the Friendship Home Tour will be held.  There is a write-up about it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette if you’d like more information.
Sunday morning is also [...]

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Feel like your home is in a perpetual state of renovation? 
Need a break?
A home renovation project in Oakland Square at the corner of Parkview Avenue and the Boulevard of the Allies will be the scene of a Macbeth adaptation where Macbeth is a drywall contractor.  The play was featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday.
A [...]

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Pennyslvania homeowners have a new option for financing their home renovation: the Keystone Renovate and Repair program run by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.  The program provides below market, fixed interest rates for homeowners renovating their property that meet certain income and residency conditions.  It also provides guidance on planning the renovation and selecting the [...]

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Somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of home sales every year occur for sale by owner. It’s a tempting way to sell a property in a cooling market because fees for a Realtor average 6%. But I’ve heard that 75% of people who list their home FSBO eventually list with a Realtor. So how can [...]

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The carnival of real estate is now growing strong with over 30 submissions last week.  For those of you that have enjoyed submitting an article, there is another “carnival” that will be running Monday through Thursday.  It’s the Problogger Group Writing Project. 
Here’s the deal: Darren posts a topic Monday afternoon (Australia time) and bloggers then [...]

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Catch Pittsburgh’s new mayor Luke Ravenstahl on Letterman tonight.
On Friday, there will be a golf fundraiser for Womansplace, which supports victims of domestic violence.
Saturday, September 16th is the Pittsburgh Rose Society’s annual Fall Rose Show with over 200 varieties of roses.
Other Events:
There is a three day celebration for the re-opening of The Hazlett Theater on [...]

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The $7.1 million project at Point State Park is set to begin next month.
A new hotel in Oakland is being planned for 4621 Forbes Ave.  I guess we can almost add that one to the list of eight hotels being planned or constructed in Downtown Pittsburgh, the North Shore, South Side, and Strip District.
Saks in downtown [...]

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If you picked up the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review yesterday, you would have thought they were talking about different locations.  The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette saw home sales up slightly in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area through June and home prices up 6 percent over last year.  It pointed to locations just outside Allegheny County as hot: the [...]

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Looks like I missed an interesting charity event when I searched for things to do this weekend in Pittsburgh. 
On Saturday and Sunday, the 3rd Annual Parade of Ponds, a self-guided tour of 22 gardens around Pittsburgh, is being held.

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No shortage of things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend.
On Saturday, you can pitch your ideas for making Pittsburgh a better place to the Sprout Fund.  They’ve got $100,000 for the ideas at the session.
The annual Arts and Heritage/Movie Festival in Carnegie concludes on Saturday.  If you can’t make it on Saturday and are in [...]

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