The High Center is run through Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County. It was started in 1995 through funding by the High Companies and other investors to help boost family-owned and privately held businesses. It offers education, peer counseling and other business-boosting services.

Buffeted by the pandemic economy, many businesses invested in e-commerce and other technology to meet customer needs. That’s one of the findings of the most recent quarterly Business Owner Outlook report from Wilmington Trust and M&T Bank. The national survey also showed that chaos brought by COVID-19 has caused some changing of the guard and early retirements.

Four businesses in Lancaster and York counties will receive low-interest loans through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA).

Affordable housing development projects in the state that have been hampered by higher construction material costs should get the boost they need with extra funding from the National Housing Trust Fund.

According to the 2021 report on Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends, in the year ending in July 2020, 18% of homebuyers between the ages of 41 to 65, and 17% of homebuyers ages 75 to 95, purchased a multigenerational home.

ATTOM Data Solutions has released its 2020 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings— default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 214,323 U.S. properties in 2020, down 57 percent from 2019 and down 93 percent from a peak of nearly 2.9 million in 2010, to the lowest level since tracking began in 2005. 

Full-service custom construction and remodeling company B&D Builders hired its first CEO in February.

Homes sold in the Harrisburg region continue apace, with 13% more in March than the year before, when the COVID-19 lockdown began. But the numbers in Dauphin, Cumberland and Perry counties also exceeded March 2019, which didn’t have to factor in a global pandemic.

Longtime Lancaster County real estate agent Carole Kirchner has a message for those who want to purchase a house.

Home remodeling company West Shore Home completed the acquisition of Tennessee-based home improvement company Hullco Inc.

“Historically low numbers of real estate inventory have greatly contributed to the rise in housing pricing,” said realtor Scott Harrington of Coldwell Banker Heritage Real Estate.

In the red-hot real estate market of York and Adams counties, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

After being purchased by two long-term employees last month, York-based architecture, engineering and design firm Warehaus AE plans to open its newest headquarters next week.

Here’s how the Dauphin County Eviction Mediation Program process works

A mediation program that helps landlords and tenants work through eviction notices—so both sides benefit—has been launched in Dauphin County, with funding coming from pro-bono work by the county bar association, as well as grants and federal pandemic-relief measures.