Real Deals

David Ravin, president and CEO of Northwood Ravin

Real Deals: For Triangle apartment developers, timing could be everything

The timing of when an apartment project opens will go a long way toward determining how well it does. In the case of Northwood Ravin, which is now opening new communities in Cary and downtown Raleigh, the company's timing couldn’t be much better.

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Real Deals: L Building puts Empire in middle of downtown Raleigh’s resurgence

For downtown Raleigh, the L Building is an important project as it will help connect the redevelopment activities occurring in the warehouse district and activity around Fayetteville Street.
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Real Deals: 7 siblings pull together to run Triangle hotel business

Even in an industry that prides itself on being a family affair, there’s something remarkable about Daly Seven, which over the past three decades has grown into one of the largest hotel operators in the Triangle.
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Real Deals: Charter Square resumes, but some wish it was taller

Dominion Realty Partners plan to build an 11-story tower on Fayetteville Street has disappointed some who think the project fails to take full advantage of one of the best development sites in downtown Raleigh.
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Real Deals: MetLife may choose familiar partner for Cary campus

If Highwoods Properties is chosen to develop MetLife’s new campus in Cary, it would deepen an already-strong relationship between the Raleigh company and the insurance giant.
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Real Deals: Lots become scarce as discount residential land deals dry up

Increases in land acquisition costs for homebuilders is a big reason why Triangle home prices, which have been slow to increase so far, are expected to rise in the near term.
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Real Deals: Server farms are sprouting in NC

Since Google announced six years ago that it would build a $600 million data center in Lenoir, the state has seen a wave of investments in such properties. It’s unlikely to end soon.
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Long-stalled Centennial Campus residential project to get restart

North Shore, a key residential project on N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus, is poised to restart more than seven years after a debt dispute caused it to ground to a halt. White Oak Properties has filed plans with the city of Raleigh to build up to 111 townhomes and condominiums as...
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Real Deals: Homebuilder bills would limit local control

If you were at the General Assembly this week, you heard a lot about how local governments have become a kind of Big Brother to the homebuilding industry. In an effort to rein in such overreach, legislators have introduced two bills this session that are now making their way through the House and...
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Raleigh apartment complex plagued by cost overruns heads to auction

Later this month the Raleigh apartment complex Manor Six Forks will be sold at auction to the highest bidder, an outcome that might seem puzzling given the healthy state of the Triangle apartment market.
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Raleigh builder revives early 1900s style in neighborhoods

Homebuilder Richard Johnson describes the style of the houses he’s been renovating and constructing just southwest of downtown Raleigh as “post-railroad folk vernacular.” In recent years Johnson has used the style in a 20-home community called Rosengarten Park, and now in a ...