Real estate investment group hosts inaugural meeting

SCHERERVILLE | The founder and publisher of Personal Real Estate Magazine will speak at the first meeting of the Financial Momentum Club on Tuesday.

Event to recognize home savings program for heroes

SCHERERVILLE | Northwest Indiana residents are invited to celebrate Homes For Heroes Day at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday at Northwoods Restaurant and Bar, 8101 Wicker Ave.

NWI home sales have a spring in their step

Single-family home sales in Northwest Indiana increased 23.3 percent in March, marking their 21st consecutive monthly increase on a year-over-year basis, according to sales figures from the Greater Northwest Indiana Association of Realtors.

Home sales market surging 15 percent across Indiana

SOUTH BEND | Nissa Ricafort and her husband figured their ranch-style home in northeast Indianapolis would take two to three months to sell, but the weekend it hit the market the couple had 17 showings and accepted an offer for the full $185,000 asking price.

Crown Point-owned home fetches $95,000 at auction

CROWN POINT | Close to 50 people gathered on the front lawn of a home Saturday afternoon just south of the city's downtown square for a chance to buy a city-owned home at auction.

Breaking the Bank

GUEST COMMENTARY: Increase access to clean, safe, affordable housing

About 800,000 people call Northwest Indiana their home, and I am glad to be among them. We live in an important region comprised of industrious people who contribute to the success and prosperity of our state and nation.

Business will pick up in region in 2013

Sheila Silhavy talks in May about living in this home which her son, Eric Cooper, recently purchased for $38,000 less than she sold it for in 2007. Low interest rates have made this a buyer's market.

Drone helps realty company market homes

A Valparaiso realty company is using a remote-controlled drone to help market and sell homes.

Local Realtors offer a drone with a view

VALPARAISO | Realtors Jeff and Grace Safrin are taking their use of technology to new heights.

Realtors use drone to show properties

Realtor Jeff Safrin uses an iPad to pilot the drone he uses to photograph stills and video of certain properties to show to clients.

F.C. Tucker/1st Team Real Estate associates honored at annual awards banquet

VALPARAISO | F.C. Tucker/1st Team Real Estate sales associates were honored this week at F.C. Tucker Company’s annual awards banquet in Indianapolis.

Realtors use drone to show properties

The quadcopter drone is used to photograph stills and video of certain properties to show to clients.

Realtors use drone to show properties

Realtors Jeff and Grace Safrin demonstrate the quadcopter drone they use to photograph stills and video of certain properties to show to clients.

Realtors use drone to show properties

Realtors Grace Safrin and her husband, Jeff, demonstrate the quadcopter drone they use to photograph stills and video of certain properties to show to clients.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Level playing field to aid brick-and-mortar stores

Indiana House Bill No. 1007 passed the House 79-18 last week and moves to the Senate for consideration. On behalf of the CCIM National Legislative Affairs subcommittee, I ask our Senate leaders to pass this bill to help protect our local businesses that have invested in our state by creating…

Subsidized Sprawl

Federal spending on real estate is more likely to benefit single-family homes than multifamily housing, advocacy group study shows.

New Wave of Foreclosures

REAL ESTATE: Buyers starting to "move up"

There is again interest in building new homes, and buyers of both new and existing homes are again looking to "move up" to something better.

THE TIMES BOARD OF ECONOMISTS: No economic tonic for uncertainty

Northwest Indiana business executives are seeing the signs of a sustained -- yet slow -- economic recovery in the region this year. But the 22-member Times Board of Economists is split on how quickly challenges such as elevated unemployment will be resolved.