While industrial sales volume has fallen to pre-pandemic levels in the Lancaster County commercial real estate market, office and retail activity are surprisingly strong.

The York County commercial real estate market showed signs of strong activity in the third quarter, although the once-frenetic pace has cooled.

Harrisburg’s Broad Street Market is under new leadership.

The industrial real estate market in the greater Hanover area was very tight in the first half of 2022, with a vacancy rate of less than 1%.

Businesses that recently sold, purchased or leased properties include: The Smooth Generation, Pizzeria 211, B&T Lancaster Owner LLC and more.

For the first time since April, the 30-year mortgage rate average has fallen under 5%. Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage was down to 4.99%.

“Market on Market,” a new Camp Hill farmers market, will be open to the public 3-7 p.m. Tuesdays through Nov. 22 in the Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot, 2000 Chestnut St.

Hershey-based Forward Solutions, a newly formed portfolio company of lower middle market private equity fund Osceola Capital, has acquired Utility Sales Associates, a provider of outsourced sales services for utilities and telecommunications equipment manufacturers.

State Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced an $8 million agreement with Wawa on Tuesday to resolve a December 2019 data breach that compromised approximately 9.1 million payment cards in Pennsylvania and 34 million used across all Wawa stores.

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.

Walmart announced plans Friday to build a high-tech fulfillment center in Greencastle, Franklin County, one of four the retailing giant is constructing nationwide.

If we have learned anything from over 100 years of combined experience serving individuals, families and business owners, it is that none of us should be in the habit of attempting to predict what the stock and bond markets do next. 

Rents in Harrisburg fell slightly from February to March but continue to be up substantially from the year before. 

With inventory still in short supply in the Harrisburg-area housing market, median sold prices in February jumped by double digits from the year before. 

Through the first two months of 2022, home sales in York and Adams counties are the same as a year ago, while prices keep climbing.