Archive for March, 2008
Average home price down $10,000 in Greensboro
Greensboro, NC — If you’re in the market for a home, now is a good time to buy.
Last month, the average sale price for a Greensboro home fell by more than $10,000 compared to last year.
The average sale price is now about $163,000.
Wrenchel Stokes with Your Community Real Estate blames a growing [...]
Happy 200th Birthday Greensboro North Carolina
Greensboro, NC — Greensboro’s 200th birthday party kicked off on Tuesday with the first leg of the bicentennial torch relay.
Runners and walkers spent the early evening looping through Greensboro, among them were several of your friends from WFMY.
Sandra Hughes was one of the first to carry and pass the torch along the nearly 12 mile [...]
Is Your Home Walk Distance Friendly?
With the ever rising price of fuel and the growing concern with better health and physical fitness, isn’t it about time this has caught up to your choice in buying or selling a home?
Have you ever wondered just how “walk distance friendly” your home is?
Potential buyers are looking at conveniences not only in the home [...]
Green building is finally coming to the Triad
Mount Airy, NC – The move to green and sustainable commercial and residential building in the Piedmont Triad is slowly gaining ground, but still has a way to go, says Greg Savage LEED AP, the Director of Sustainable Construction at John S. Clark Company and Chair of the Triad’s new N.C. Chapter of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Economy up in the Greensboro Triad area
The overall economy in the Triad inched upward in January, according to a review of indicators by UNC-Greensboro.
The Piedmont Triad Business Index was up by 0.1 percent in January, according UNCG’s Bryan School of Business and Economics. Leading national economic indicators declined by that same amount in January.
Employment figures held steady overall in the Triad, [...]
Portrait Homes has fire code violations in Guilford County
GREENSBORO – A construction error on more than 90 new town houses built by Portrait Homes in Guilford County since 2006 means the homes don’t meet North Carolina fire codes.The faulty fire walls were detected only after an anonymous caller contacted Greensboro city inspectors in fall 2007 about the below-code drywall, according to David Jones, [...]
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