Sale points to possible new future for Northeast Philly’s troubled Liberty Plaza shopping center

A unit of Huntington Valley-based Sant Properties L.P. has acquired the Liberty Plaza shopping center in Northeast Philadelphia for $ 10.4 million, pointing toward a possible path forward for the financially troubled property still reeling from the loss of its anchor Walmart store four years ago. Sant Properties, which is operated by real estate investors […]

Foreclosure Rates Continue to Fall in Northeast Pennsylvania

More homeowners in northeast Pennsylvania are hanging onto their houses as the foreclosure rate again reached its lowest point since before the housing market crash, new data shows. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton metro area's foreclosure rate in October 2016, the most current month available, was 1.44 percent among all outstanding mortgages, according to Irvine, California-based CoreLogic, an […]