Lancaster PA Commercial Real Estate

Morningstar analyst Todd Lukasik expects a flurry of purchase activity in the commercial real estate space, starting now and then intensifying in 2011 and 2012.

It’s not so much that the commercial real estate market is healthy, but rather that there will be massive amounts of distressed properties as many property owners’ untenable debt burdens come debt.

Central PA Business Journal reports that new homebuilding in Central Pennsylvania is defying the rest of the nation’s fallout, said Dave Thompson, president of the Homebuilders Association of Metropolitan Harrisburg.

The number of new house sales dropped 33 percent in May compared with April, the U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday. Economists pointed fingers at the end of the federal first-time and second-time homebuyer tax credit program that stopped April 30 for the decline.

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Central Pennsylvania Business Journal reports that a Texas real estate management and development company has its sights set on more Central Pennsylvania warehouse acquisitions, an executive said today.
Dallas-based Hillwood Investment Properties is actively surveying the market to add smaller vacant warehouses to its midstate portfolio, Senior Vice President Gary Frederick said. “It’s a very stable and consistent distribution market because of its proximity to most of the northeast population,” he said.

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