Pittsburgh Homes Daily

The downtown Pittsburgh cultural district project that was once called one of the linchpins of the revitalization of the City of Pittsburgh and a project without equal in the United States was indefinitely suspended last month by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust blamed the poor economy and credit markets as the [...]

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Dare I even suggest that the Pittsburgh real estate market is heating up in 2008?
And to do so at a time when foreclosures in the Pittsburgh area set a near record in the first quarter, with economists believing that the Pennsylvania housing market could still get worse, and with the amount of sales activity and [...]

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Reuters had an article on Monday about the increasing number of squatters living in vacant foreclosed homes. It is written from the perspective of the mortgage companies and their real estate agents detailing the squatting problem. But I’m not feeling too sorry for the new owners of the foreclosed homes. They aren’t [...]

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Money Magazine’s Real Estate Survival Guide has published Fiserv Lending Solutions’ 1 year price change predictions for the top 100 U.S. Cities. Real estate values are expected to decline, on average, 9.7 percent in the United States over the next year. Pittsburgh’s prediction? A relatively modest loss of 1.3%.
Prices are expected to [...]

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I’ve been hearing increasing speculation in the media that the nation’s housing market is at or near the bottom. Upon reading this interview, I (along with many other people) am wondering how long it will take for the real estate market to return to housing prices of Fall 2005 / Spring 2006 once it [...]

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I was wondering the other day whether it would be better for buyers and sellers if the real estate market were more like the stock market.
Real estate agents could act like brokers do on the stock exchange - they take a request for a purchase or sale and facilitate the transaction. If no one [...]

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This past week, I half-heartedly advocated that real estate agents should use Twitter as a means to communicate with clients. Today, I had the probably behind the times realization that a web-savvy client doesn’t need Twitter to check up on their Realtor.
As Realtors increase their online presence through blogging, Active Rain, and other [...]

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“grand but certainly not stuffy style”
“original decorative features remain intact”
“ornate tradesman-crafted exterior”
“impressive archways”
“ironwork from another era”
Aptly named - just too bad it is in Seattle.
Found via urbnlivn.com.

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Allegheny County property taxes won’t change overnight, and there is still a lengthy fight ahead, but an Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge held today that the property tax system in the entire state of Pennsylvania is unconstitutional today (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article here). I’ve only made it through the first 7 or so pages of [...]

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I guess I am going to have to do some research to learn more about the Pittsburgh tax abatements which just passed city council, unless someone stumbles upon this article that knows more than I do and can help me out. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article here.
Let’s take a specific example:
Charlie Batch is doing [...]

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