Lehigh Valley Real Estate

After years of sitting untouched and vacant, the Salisbury Township mansion that went up in flames hours after its sale in 2021 has a new owner. The compound was donated to the township for $1 and was sold at an auction with a starting bid of $400,000.

The initial plan to rezone a nearly four-acre lot for a six-story, 240-unit building was before Bethlehem City Council more than a year ago. The equitable land owner is back with another plan, this time with some changes.

Easton City Council approved a $1.5 million sale for the former Easton Iron and Metal site to VM Development Group, with the developer planning to build housing and commercial space.

The Hamilton Square development in Lower Macungie will be a 1.628-acre parcel with one 6,850-square-foot building and one 3,150-square-foot building, both dedicated to retail and dining space.

Allentown officials are asking voters to authorize them to one day raise the tax rate paid when properties are bought and sold in the city.

Earlier this month, the group announced its sixth Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Award, this one for construction-rehabilitation at the former Laros Silk Mill, now known as Laros Lofts, along the eastern end of Broad Street.

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LVPC officials said the footprint of a 100,000-square-foot warehouse proposed for Lowhill Township should be reduced for its impact on infrastructure and natural resources.

LehighValleyNews.com reporters got an exclusive look inside the Salisbury Township mansion at 3015 Barrington Lane that'll soon be up for auction. Here's what they saw inside.

Though the former club site at 946 Evans St. sat vacant since its partial collapse and demolition in October 2022, the area is now planned for new life as 37 apartments and parking, just blocks from the South Bethlehem Greenway and Third and Fourth streets.

Easton's Redevelopment Authority presented plans for the future of "workforce housing" at a lot on Coal Street, where two homes are set to be built by spring 2025.

The Borough of Emmaus, after multiple meetings of discussion and refinements, has passed a Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance, or LERTA, program for borough properties.

Township Council on Wednesday got an idea of what 39 garden apartments and parking lots could look like in the open space across from the municipal complex on Old Philadelphia Pike.

Easton's Planning Commission decided Wednesday to table a hearing for the proposed Easton Commerce Park warehouse in a bid to wait on more information from PennDOT and Wilson Borough before making a decision.

Upper Macungie Planning Commission on Wednesday reviewed a preliminary/final plan for Sunset Orchards, a proposed housing development near the intersection of Shantz and Ruppsville roads.

Macungie is just one in a list of examples where the demand for homes in the Lehigh Valley has continued to surge. We put the 'hottest zip code' against other areas to see how they match up.

The bill introducing tax abatements for condemned properties met a roadblock in Emmaus, and will be re-introduced at a meeting in the near future.

As it has every year since 2017, Realtor.com unveiled its hottest ZIP codes in the United States on Tuesday to showcase the top markets attractive to homebuyers looking for a combination of value and desirability. One Lehigh Valley area made the top 10.

Interest rates are dropping, but what does that mean for home buyers in the Lehigh Valley?

A slightly smaller-than-expected award of state funding forced a developer to downsize its plans for an affordable housing complex in downtown Allentown.

Palmer Township's planning commission reviewed early plans to transform a more-than-century-old building along the Bushkill Creek. once the Binney & Smith crayon factory, into 108 apartments.

Wilson Borough Council and Wilson Area School District repealed a LERTA for a former project at the old Dixie Cup factory site while approving a tax increment financing plan for the property so it can be developed into a 405-unit residential apartment building.

Bethlehem City Council unanimously voted down a developer’s wishes to build up to a 286-foot-long building within a planned 317-unit apartment complex on Hanover Avenue.

Allentown City Council members unanimously backed a ballot question that — if approved by voters — would open the door for the deed-transfer tax to be raised for the first time in decades.