Economic Outlook from  realtor.com®It's a great time to review the state of the nation’s housing market. Let’s go! Once the final data on 2015 are complete and tabulated, I’m pretty sure that we’ll see that it was a great year of growth and improvement—one that sets the stage for a return to normalcy in the months and years ahead. But not all parts of housing are close to normal. On the sales front, there were more sales of both existing and new homes in 2015. Judging from ... read more

North Carolina ranked first in the nation in an analysis of statewide economic development achievements in 2021. For achievement, the North Carolina Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) received top honors and won Site Selection magazine’s 2022 Prosperity Cup. The prosperity cup award is given annually to state-level organizations with the most successful economic development projects in their state in the prior year. For ... read more