What Are Millennials Looking for in a Home?
Millennials have home-buying preferences and habits all their own. For a variety of financial and lifestyle reasons, millennials want to own homes and consider home ownership more sensible than...
New Construction Outlook
Given all the evidence of the strong activity in 2020, it would be tempting to suggest that the housing market manage to thrive in the face of a global pandemic.What would be incorrect, however, is...
Sustainable Pittsburgh
From companies to community members to colleges and universities, Pittsburgh’s spirit of innovation drives regional sustainability efforts. For cities like Pittsburgh, every day is a building block...
Pittsburgh’s Eastern Suburbs
Comfort, Convenience and Community In the midst of an ongoing pandemic, a tempestuous election and social discord, who would have foreseen a surge in the housing market? Jacob Passey, in his...
Financing the Housing Market, 2021
Somehow, amid all the economic distress caused by the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the U.S. housing market is in robust condition. It seems that with each passing month the reports on home price...
Relocating to Pittsburgh: Painting a New Picture
Stand atop its famed Mount Washington and newcomers quickly realize that the Pittsburgh region has long since replaced the sepia-toned image of a rust-belt town of yore, reinventing itself as a...
Low Maintenance Communities Offering High Quality Living
Back in the swingin’ 60’s, prognosticators foretold of retirees in growing numbers and opined about their desire for living space more suited to an active lifestyle. From those prognostications...
Living in Our Northern Communities
The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same. What was once true is true again: the North Hills are hot. Even as the global and regional economies are buffeted by a pandemic-induced...
Creative Floor Plans: Home Designs to Fit the Times
If the coronavirus pandemic has taught me anything, it’s that my mid-century ranch home falls woefully short when it comes to truly flexible space. Don’t misunderstand. I love my home, imbued with...
Financing a Home
Purchasing a custom home or a home already on the market is one of the most exciting life events that there is. Add in trying to finance your home, particularly in a world besieged by a global...