Median Louisville home price of $165k limits options

Good luck getting home in trendy area for $165K

, @gesinfk3:26 p.m. EDT August 29, 2016

Leaders of area real estate groups say that the local median price, which is about $165,000, is low enough for first-timers paying rising apartment rents of $800 to $1,000 a month to transition without experiencing a huge hit to monthly expenses,

Home sales up 4.3% in Jefferson County

SHELDON S. SHAFER

Home sales increased 4.3 percent in Jefferson County and nearly 6 percent in the Louisville tri-county area in the first seven months of 2016, compared with the same period of the previous year.

Read the entire Courier-Journal article below:

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2016/08/15/home-sales-up-43-pct-jefferson-county/88766368/

More than $35 million retail center planned along Bardstown Road

 

By Caitlin Bowling | July 14, 2016 11:43 am
Insider Louisville

Fresh Thyme grocery store has signed a notice of intent for a 30,000-square-foot space. | Renderings by Herschman ArchitectsFresh Thyme grocery store has signed a notice of intent for a 30,000-square-foot space. | Renderings by Herschman Architects

Whitehouse, Ohio-based Devonshire REIT has submitted plans and renderings for a new 221,000-square-foot retail center on 31 acres off Bardstown Road near the Gene Snyder Freeway.

Louisville awarded $1 million in Choice Neighborhoods Grant funding

By CAITLIN BOWLING | July 1, 2016 10:30 am  

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/cn

 

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded the Louisville Metro Housing Authority an additional $1 million Choice Neighborhoods Grant.