Home prices continue to rise in central Pennsylvania but demand shows signs of softening, even as June remained a seller’s market with many listings selling quickly.

Across the country, existing-home sales in June fell for the fifth consecutive month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.12 million, the National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday.

The 2022-2023 state budget just signed by Gov. Tom Wolf includes $125 million to fund a new program to pay for home repairs and other improvements for those with limited incomes.

Projects in Adams and Lancaster counties are among nine to receive approval through the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) that will empower communities and economic development partners to attract businesses by building an inventory of ready sites. 

Prices may be falling slightly at the pump, but there’s been no relief in housing prices. 

Penn Center Campus, the former Polyclinic Medical Center, in Harrisburg is up for sale for $22 million. 

Rock Commercial Real Estate announced Monday that Carpenter & Kolanko Partnership LP sold 78-80 Wyntre Brooke Drive, York Township, for $1.4 million to Rexroth Equities LP.

Despite high fuel costs and supply chain issues, Newmark Real Estate said the I-81/78 industrial market remains strong, with the central Pennsylvania market showing the strongest activity. 

Strawberry Square Associates has signed a lease with the USPS to move its Federal Station Postal Service location to Strawberry Square. 

Mechanicsburg-based Duck Donuts has signed an area development agreement to open franchises in Thailand. 

Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning (CHS) plans to build its third Early Childhood Resource Center in Middletown. 

A planned expansion of Greenfield in Lancaster County will bring a new road to the area that will create more than 2,600 jobs and ease traffic congestion. 

As of Tuesday, Brownstone Real Estate Co. has merged with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Homesale Realty, both agencies confirmed. 

The Pressroom restaurant on West King Street in downtown Lancaster will reopen this summer under new ownership. 

The Hershey Co. is looking to grow on land it owns in Derry Township.