April 2025
Did you know? There are 20 U.S. towns named Benton across 15 different States. Three of them are in Michigan with two each in Indiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania.
The Highland Park Residential Historic District, located in Pittsburgh’s East End, Allegheny County, is a well-preserved residential neighborhood adjacent to the city-owned landscape park of the same name, approximately seven miles from downtown Pittsburgh. About 90% of the resources retained their historical integrity as of the District;s nomination to the National Register in 2007.
According to an article on Realtor.com, these are the 10 States which are most lucrative for flipping houses.
The City of Ardmore (established as a railroad station in 1887) is home to three historic districts: McLish Historic District, Highland Park Historic District and Ardmore Commercial Historic District. [Carter County, OK]
Keller Williams “knows” Council Rock School District
For the first quarter of 2025, more Council Rock School District owners sold their homes with Keller Williams Real Estate than any other real estate brokerage. Over the past 3 years the median Q-1, single-family sold price rose nearly 12% ($68,000). [ Source ]
DID YOU KNOW that there are more than 150 neighborhoods named Oxford across the U.S.? See links below for info on 15 of them.
DID YOU KNOW that there are more than 100 neighborhoods named Pheasant Run across the U.S.? See links below for info on 10 of them.
DID YOU KNOW that there are more than 300 neighborhoods named Highland Park across the U.S.? See links below for info on more than 40 of them.
The Mountair Acres Subdivision Historic District was lust listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [ City of Millcreek, UT]
To find the Most Cost-Friendly Detached Single-Family Homes, target the Midwest and South, especially smaller towns or suburban areas with solid economic foundations. Buffalo, NY, Fort Wayne, IN, and Huntsville, AL, are excellent places to begin, while rural regions in states like Texas or Ohio provide even more affordable options. Since local housing markets fluctuate, explore up-to-date listing platforms to help identify precise deals.
March 2025
The median sold price of existing single family homes (January through February) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania has increased by $90,000 year‑over‑year in the past 3 years.
Over the past 12 months more Warwick Township owners sold their homes with Keller Williams Real Estate than any other real estate brokerage.
Homes Sold by Municipality, January-February 2025 ranked by median sold price, high to low. Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery Counties, PA.
REAL ESTATE AND AI
Whatever you think about so-called Artificial Intelligece tools, they has arrived and will increasingly maintain influence, good or bad, on everyday issues. Here we begin to share how Grok AI reports on towns and neighborhoods. First up, Borough of Morrisville, PA.
The Robidoux Hill Historic District is a contiguous concentration of resources adjacent the central commercial district of St. Joseph, Missouri. Lying on hilltops overlooking the heart of the city the district contains resources which retain the historic character and stylistic preferences dominant in domestic architecture of the city circa 1865‑1909.
February 2025
Gloucester County offers much for an adventurous explorer: bucolic vistas of corn fields and peach orchards, giant industrial works and rusting relics, sweeping riverbluff views, the passing of large ships, Victorian towns, serene estuaries, forested wetlands, glimpses of wild turkey and whitetail deer, tea‐colored lakes, Revolutionary War earthworks, and houses inhabited since the colonial era. [ Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commision ]
Looking for a long term real estate investment? Here's something you may want to know about. The subject of regional planning talks, the Glassboro-Camden Line could establish passenger train travel in several spots in Gloucester County, NJ that currently have no passenger rail service, including Mantua, Pitman, Westville and Woodbury. The trains would travel down existing tracks in those communities with the goal of a train arriving at stops every 15 minutes.
On the edge of Philadelphia in William Penn's Liberty Lands, Overbrook Farms is located between 58th and 66th Streets and between Woodbine and City Line Avenues on 168 acres of farm land purchased in 1893 from the John M. George estate for the sum of $425,000.
Much of Ridley Park Borough is composed of single-family homes. This was the original intent of the Borough's developers, for it would promote stable, well-kept neighborhoods and community pride. The wisdom of this original purpose is evident today, for one of Ridley Park's chief assets is its wonderful collection of comfortable and architecturally pleasing houses. [ Delaware County, PA ]
January 2025
Tareyton Estates: Circa 1979 Townhome sold in 4 days for $30,000 over list price by Keller Williams Real Estate, Langhorne, PA. [ Middletown Township, Bucks County, PA ]
In the early 20th century, Ventnor, NJ exploded from a developer's dream into a fully blown seaside automobile suburb. Where Atlantic City had relied on the train to concentrate guests in downtown hotels, Ventnor was connected by the Black Horse Pike to Philadelphia, and provided up‥scale houses to attract the driving public.
Home on Bateman Road in Cider Knoll sold in less than one week (5 days) for $35,000 over list price. Middletown Township, Bucks County, PA ]
The Reserve at Woodside Creek is a subdivision of detached singles by Lennar Homes built 2021-2024. [ Richland Township, Bucks County, PA ]
The Borough of Swedesboro has long been an attractive location due to its close proximity to an interconnected network of waterways, roads, and railroads. Boats relied on the wide tidal Raccoon Creek to carry farm produce to local markets in Philadelphia while early gristmills and sawmills depended on the tributaries to these streams to provide their power. [ Gloucester County, NJ ]
December 2024
The Greenfield Resodential Historic District houses range from high-style, architect designed homes, to much more modest vernacular cottages, sometimes located next door to one another. [ Greenfield, Indiana ]
Over the past 2 years more Sweetwater Farms owners sold their homes with Keller Williams Real Estate than all other real estate brokerages combined! [ Lower Southampton Township, Bucks County ]
Bowmans Hill Tower Although it's often thought to be from the Revolutionary War period, it was actually constructed as a memorial to commemorate George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River. [ Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County ]
Bowmans Hill Wildflower Preserve is a fantastic outing for nature lovers, botanists, photographers, and anyone interested in ecology and conservation. [ Solebury Township, Bucks County ]
So far this year more Mantua Township owners sold their homes with Keller Williams Real Estate than with any other real estate brokerage. [Gloucester County, NJ]
Historic Covered Bridges — at the peak popularity of covered bridges, Bucks County, Pennsylvania was home to fifty of them. Today, only twelve remain.
November 2024
Many historic Streetcar Suburbs have remained desirable due to their walkable design, mixed-use development, and historic charm, even after the decline of streetcar systems. They serve as examples for modern urban planners interested in sustainable, transit-oriented development.
The City of Mentor's proximity to Cleveland and the Lake Erie shore made it a focus for resort and recreation development. The first resort hotel, Little Mountain House, was established in 1831 and remained popular until the turn of the century. Beginning in the 1870's Mentor experienced the development of private beach clubs. Property was subdivided into small lots on which private cottages were built. Many of the existing subdivisions adjacent to the Lake were influenced by this pattern of development. [Lake County, Ohio]
According to Kiplinger Financial, Hawaii is the State with the highest hidden cost of home ownership while Kentucky is the State with the lowest.
October 2024
The Kirby Historic District is a collection of late 19th and early 20th century buildings which retain their architectural integrity and characteristic features. While the majority of the district's homes were built between 1900 and 1911, a smaller building boom occurred from 1927 to 1932. [ City of Muncie, Delaware County, IN ]
The Riverside Historic District is largely unchanged in form and appearance since the time of its development in the first decades of the twentieth century, and features a variety of middle class homes representative of that era. [Muncie, IN ]
The Haughville Historic District represents a cohesive concentration of buildings associated with the Slovenian community in Indianapolis. Recruited to work in the foundries of the near-Westside, this ethnic group was most prominent in Haughville from circa 1895 through the 1960s. [ Marion County, IN ]
The Culver Historic District contains important works of architecture by nearly every designer active in the city at the turn of the century. The high standards of design combine to form a streetscape unlike any in Evansville. [ Vanderburgh County, IN ]
The Bayard Park Historic District is Evansville's first suburb of the modern era. Unlike streetcar suburbs preceding it (for example, Washington Avenue Historic District) or "garden suburbs" (for example, the Lincolnshire Historic District) it was remarkable for its Progressive Era character and appeal. [ Vanderburgh County, IN ]
The City of Princeton is the county seat of Gibson County and was founded in 1814, two years before Indiana became a state. The county is situated at the crossroads of three major transportation arteries.
The Forest Hills Historic District is a marvelously cohesive and intact expression of the picturesque ideals that came into vogue in the early 1920s, both in its architecture and in its landscaping. [ Indianapolis, IN ]
In 1871, John Logan and Elias Kelsey became the founders of the Village of Waterloo and the first plat was laid out. That same year a new school was built in the Village. By the mid-1870s more platting had taken place and the first newspaper was published. [ Douglas County, Nebraska ]
Elmira, New York: Mark Twain spent many summers here at Quarry Farm, the house of his wife's sister (Susan Crane) which was a few miles outside the City. It was from here he wrote portions of both Tpm Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is interred at Elmira;s Woodlawn Cemetery. [ Chemung County ]
The Daniel Pratt Historic District encompasses the 19th-century nucleus of the city of Prattville. It consists of over two hundred properties representing a diversity of commercial, industrial, residential, and institutional architecture. [ Autaugua County, Alabama ]
Yardley, PA — a dozen years before the Borough was incorporated in 1895, the name Yardleyville was changed to Yardley. This is likely in order to avoid confusing it with Yardville, an historic neighborhood in Hamilton Township, Mercer County.
The historic village of Siddonsburg is located in Monaghan Township, York County, PA. So far this year (ending 9/30/2024) Monaghan Township had the highest median price for homes sold in York County. See: York County Median Sold Prices.
The 10 most expensive real estate marketplaces in the Delaware Valley (January through September) by median sold price: Princeton $1,300,000; Solebury Twp $945,000; Upper Makefield Twp $940,000; Birmingham Twp $905,000; New Hope Boro $900,000; Radnor Twp $899,000; West Windsor Twp $878,000; Newlin Twp $868,000; West Pikeland Twp $865,000; Easttown Twp $838,000
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