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Investor Group Purchases Pittsburgh’s Tallest Office Tower

New York-based real estate investor Mark Karasick bought Pittsburgh’s tallest office building with a group of investors recently, according to an article by Bloomberg News. The group of investors purchased the 64-story U.S. Steel Tower for $250 million. The building, which is 2.9 million square feet, includes office space for such companies as UPMC, which…


Enjoy a Family-Friendly Earth Day in Pittsburgh, PA

Here in Pittsburgh, we pride ourselves on our strong sense of community.  No matter what time of year it is, you’ll find that there’s always something going on in the city that the whole family can enjoy. Tomorrow is Earth Day.  First celebrated on April 22, 1970, many people consider Earth Day a symbol of…


Attention Pittsburgh Home Buyers: Check Out Some of These Fantastic Pittsburgh Area Private Schools

If you’re an interested Pittsburgh home buyer with a young family, you can feel confident that you’ll have plenty of school choices when your children reach school age. In my last blog, I let you know about an innovative program that the Pittsburgh Public School System is trying in the fall.  Now I’d like to…


Pittsburgh Teachers Start New Program to Improve Pittsburgh Public Schools

The Pittsburgh Public School System is hard at work trying to improve public education in the city, according to a recent article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Eighty-five teachers from Pittsburgh Public Schools will fill new positions that the district created last year in hopes of improving instruction in the public school system. The new “career…


The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently published an interesting article about more and more investors coming to the Pittsburgh real estate market. Steve Guy, president and CEO of Oxford Development Co., told the paper that the Pittsburgh real estate market is seen as a considerably more stable real estate market than other places, such as San Francisco…

We here at Century 21 Frontier Realty are pleased to announce our recent appearance on the Pittsburgh Business Times’ list of the top 7 Pittsburgh real estate firms. The publication ranked the largest Pittsburgh residential real estate firms by 2010 sales volume. With a total sales volume of $126,000,000 in 2010, our team of Pittsburgh…

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently had an interesting article about Pittsburgh home vacancies in the area. The article discusses the Pittsburgh-area borough of Braddock. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the community has a 24.2 percent vacancy rate, which is the highest of all 130 communities in Allegheny County. The community’s vacancy rate has  dropped since…