Real Estate and Development

Center on Sustainable Communities (COSC), Des Moines Area Association of Realtors (DMAAR) and Iowa Association of Realtors will present two workshops on the uses and benefits of green categories recently added to the DMAAR residential …

Several Iowa State University community and regional planning faculty members are studying Polk County’s supply of affordable, low-income housing.

The research, funded by a $68,183 grant from the Polk County Housing Trust, is intended to …

The Iowa Commercial Real Estate Association will meet at 7:15 a.m. Dec. 6 at Des Moines Golf and Country Club in West Des Moines.

The featured speaker is Doug Tonnemacher, district manger for Pictometry. His …

Iowa Women in Architecture (iaWia) will have a year-end social for members and guests from 4 to 6 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Gaslamp, 1501 Grand Ave., Des Moines. Nonmembers are invited to join iaWia …

Hubbell Realty Co. is moving dirt and laying footers for a 110,000-square-foot warehouse in Grimes. Broker Morey Knutsen said a national distribution company has signed a lease for 50,000 square feet in the facility, which …

The YMCA of Greater Des Moines will move ahead with efforts to purchase the Polk County Convention Complex, the organization’s board decided Tuesday.

The YMCA vote is the latest in a chain of events in …

Des Moines Redevelopment Co., formed at the instigation of government and business leaders who played a key role in previous transformations of downtown Des Moines, has bought its first two pieces of property to hold …

U.S. housing starts hit their highest rate in more than four years during October, Reuters reported.

The Commerce Department announced that housing starts increased 3.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 894,000 units, …

Greater Des Moines foreclosures dropped to 2.47 percent in September, down 0.8 percentage points from last year, real estate research firm CoreLogic Inc. said today. Foreclosure activity in the Des Moines-West Des Moines metropolitan area …

Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes posted a five-point gain to 46 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for November.

This marks the seventh consecutive monthly …