Beneath the coats of paint, granite counter tops and gutted ruins of buying and selling houses for profit in southcentral Pennsylvania there lies a fierce debate.

Public projects can be a little like stones thrown into a lake. The ripples extend across the water.

Global real estate group CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., which has an office in Harrisburg, plans to become carbon neutral by 2010.

A Harrisburg developer received a $250,000 state grant to support the construction of a Shurfine Market at 101Trewick St. in Steelton.

Technology is meeting the real estate market in Central Pennsylvania. In November, HomeSale Settlement Services of East Hempfield Township helped complete one of the nation’s first completely electronic real estate transactions on a computer.

The Carlisle Pike and Jonestown Road are filled with commercial development. The tax income municipalities reap from that development is beneficial, but traffic congestion caused by the growth isn’t.

Stephen L. Powell knows a thing or two about working his way up to the top of a very steep ladder.

Key Real Estate purchased a 207-acre parcel of land near exit 37 of Interstate 81 in Penn Township, Cumberland County, from Brewster Development, said Pat McBride, vice president of the Industrial Group at Grubb & Ellis Co.

There’s a tug of war taking place over 48 acres of state-owned land in Summerdale, East Pennsboro Township.

A home builder was fined almost $40,000 for alleged environmental violations at five sites in York County.

Peter Kirk never had any doubt.

Concerned citizens groups and real estate developers don’t always see eye-to-eye. Developers envision dollar signs near existing neighborhoods, and not long after, battles typically begin.

Peter J. Lutz and A. Teen Vebares left Kinsley Construction Inc.’s design arm, LSC Design Inc., to start their own architectural and design firm about a year ago. That firm, Core-Design Group, is competing with LSC many ways.

The residential real estate market experienced record growth in Pennsylvania throughout the first half of this decade. Even now, as a downturn in house sales moves through the Northeast, the commonwealth is riding the tail-end of a boom.

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center broke ground this morning on a new outpatient complex in Derry Township, Dauphin County.