A great nephew says he's talking with people in Greencastle and two out-of-state locations about sites for his collection of Dillinger items and possibly the farmhouse that is now in Dillinger’s hometown of Mooresville.
Default notices sent to delinquent U.S. homeowners surged 33 percent in August from the previous month, a sign that lenders are speeding up the foreclosure process. Indiana saw an increase of 46 percent, a bigger rise than every state except California.
Home-construction permits in the Indianapolis metropolitan area climbed 23 percent in August thanks to a surge of activity in suburban counties.
Crown Property Group is issuing a request for proposals for two East Market Street buildings that now are used for office space.
Pending home sales in the nine-county metropolitan area climbed 7 percent in August compared with the same month a year ago, marking the fourth straight month of year-over-year increases.
Many neighborhood leaders have hailed Mayor Greg Ballard’s initiative to raze some 2,000 abandoned homes by the end of 2012 as a long-overdue means of tackling urban blight. But some residents and experts fear rampant demolition—without a clear plan for how to redevelop the properties—will fail to improve neighborhoods.
Johnson County officials have been working to buy about 40 flooded properties in an area a few miles west of Greenwood, so they can be demolished.
Kim Hutchinson, former treasurer of J. Greg Allen Builders and Princeton Homes, agreed to plead guilty to stealing $446,419. Her cooperation likely will result in a lighter sentence of 30 to 40 months.
Gene B. Glick Co.’s purchase of the 240-unit Thompson Village apartment complex on the south side is the most recent deal in a year full of apartment transactions.
Brian Eads faces a maximum of 30 years in prison by engaging in transactions of more than $10,000 with criminally derived proceeds from properties bought at sheriff’s sales.
A local developer has acquired the northwest corner of 86th Street and Keystone Avenue and is working on plans for a $40 million apartment and retail project.
For the third year in a row, Bif Ward has taken the top spot on IBJ’s annual list of All-Star Agents.
Busy high-profile couple enjoys their ‘haven’ in the Watson-McCord area.
If done wisely, a well-designed kitchen and bathroom not only add value, but they also make life more convenient.
Home-sale agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area rose 3.6 percent in July from the same month a year earlier, marking the third straight month of year-over-year increases after 14 months of declining sales.
The number of permits filed last month in the Indianapolis metropolitan area declined to 305, a decrease of 4 percent from the same month in 2010, according to the Builders Association of Greater Indianapolis.
The $156 million mixed-use development at Delaware and South streets in Indianapolis has a new name designed to reference both the project’s downtown locale and the urban “way of life” it will offer.
Sycamore Services Inc., which serves people with disabilities, has closed on $8 million in financing to build a 72-unit apartment community in Brownsburg.
A run-down former retail plaza along Lafayette Road south of 30th Street will be torn down to make way for a senior housing development.
The Precedent Cos.—the local developer of The Precedent Office Park, Mount Comfort Commercial Park and several upscale residential communities in Hamilton and Johnson counties—is winding down operations in an out-of-court restructuring.
