YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Area home sales in April were slightly above their marks from the previous year, with 523 sold in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties, just nine more than April 2018. The gain was driven largely by activity in Mahoning County, where 275 houses were sold last month, up from 247 last April. In […]

CANFIELD, Ohio – Bob Davis, dealer principal of Fairway Ford, recently completed the buy-out of his partners with the purchase of the real estate at 366 W. Main St. here. Jennert Investments LLC, an entity formed by Davis, paid Patul I Ltd. $2.8 million and received acquisition financing from First Commonwealth Bank, according to public […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A day after closing on the acquisition of the former Kmart distribution center in Bazetta Township, Christopher Semarjian said the property already has multiple interested parties from the industrial sector. On Wednesday, Semarjian’s company, Industrial Commercial Properties LLC, Cleveland, closed on the 1.4-million-square-foot property at 541 Perkins Jones Road, Warren. Semarjian did […]

LORDSTOWN, Ohio – The union hall once home to United Auto Workers Local 1714 is up for sale. Signs were posted on the property Friday.  “It’s got a lot of potential uses,” , says Dan Crouse, a broker with Platz Realty Group. The building sits on 42 acres that are zoned industrial. Crouse says the […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Youngstown Design Review Committee Tuesday morning approved a proposal to build a $12 million student housing complex near Youngstown State University. Campus Lofts LLC already has started demolition of the former St. Vincent DePaul thrift store building on Wick Avenue and the adjacent Penguin Place building, where it plans to build […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Real estate agents and brokers report a strong market here, even with the fluctuations in the national retail real estate landscape. The retail market was “hit pretty hard” with the recent wave of store closings, but there is strong activity in smaller spaces, reports John Horvath, sales associate with the commercial division […]

BOARDMAN, Ohio — After a month of online bidding, the auction for the former bus garage for Boardman Local Schools closed at 2 p.m. yesterday with a high bid of $305,000 plus a 10% buyer’s premium. The next step is for American Real Estate Specialists to present the bid to the district’s board of education […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Business at Perishable Shipping Solutions in is up three times over 2018, and the co-founder and operating officer, Danny Catullo, says he’ll be looking to expand soon. The question is whether there is someplace where he can expand. From its warehouse on Performance Place, Perishable Shipping Solutions provides storage and shipping services […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Court papers filed Thursday allege that the motive behind a foreclosure complaint filed April 15 against The Flats At Wick, a student housing development built in 2012, was the fact that its developer, Dominic Marchionda, is under criminal indictment. The attorney representing Flats At Wick LLC filed a counterclaim in Mahoning County […]