By DON FENLEY GRAY, TN – February was the second straight month commercial transactions have been stagnant when compared to last year. But there’s background activity that the public never sees or hears about. In fact, it accounts for a… Read More ›
ECONOMY
Washington, Hawkins real estate were standouts coming out of the pandemic
BY DON FENLEY GRAY, Tenn. – The Northeast Tennessee Association of Realtors (NETAR) has served up a benchmarking look back at how the local counties’ real estate industry’s GDP looked coming out of the pandemic. GDP is the industry’s total… Read More ›
Tri-Cities area counties see post-pandemic economic gains – Washington Co. on a roll
By DON FENLEY TRI-CITIES, Tenn. – A new county-level economic report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) affirms what other reports have been showing. Washington County’s economy is on a roll, and all the region’s counties posted economic gains… Read More ›
NE TN 2020 property tax hikes well under U.S. benchmark
Local governments didn’t pump the brakes on property taxes during the pandemic. But they didn’t hit the accelerator. A new analysis shows $180.5 million in property taxes on single-family homes in NE Tenn. counties. That’s almost $4 million – a… Read More ›