Real Estate

The owner of a popular Fairmount cafe and artisanal market has gotten permits to build a 55-foot-tall apartment complex on a vacant Poplar Street lot.

Kensington residents want a developer to put $1 million towards removing a wall they say divides the neighborhood.

Among the telltale signs are: questionable judgment; willingness to take on backbreaking labor; inability to delegate tasks. And stress, lots of stress.

It’s the latest in a string of vandalism incidents that have targeted properties associated with the developer and his company, OCF Realty.

The sprawling 1,100-unit project would include multifamily rental buildings at the western end of the site, followed by diverse array of single-family town homes

Despite resounding calls for changing the tax subsidy, none of the six pending proposals for reform have moved forward.

A new bill aims to increase the transparency and efficiency of Philadelphia’s politicized process for selling vacant city land.

Grace Baptist Church of Germantown demolished its community center to make way for a new 15,000-square-foot, energy-efficient building to provide enhanced community services.

The department is “reevaluating” the nearly $8 million it spends annually to advertise auctions in local newspapers — with an eye toward cancelling some ad buys.

A $250 million luxury tower is rising on South Broad Street. City officials were on hand to praise the new development, which benefited from the 10-year tax abatement.

Philly Council President Darrell Clarke intervened in a city land sale to help the developer who leased him space for his district office at a reduced rate.

Germantown High developer Jack Azran says that apartments with exposed brick walls, shared work spaces and a new school could fill the shuttered school by 2022

Last week’s news that the Philadelphia School District could move catchment boundary lines piqued the interest of parents and those that sell them homes.

A major new residential development planned with social impact in mind will soon break ground on fast-changing Washington Avenue.

Ten years after the first plan to revitalize Chester's waterfront, there's a new one in the works. Why there's more at stake for the struggling city this time.