Northwest Indiana Real Estate

Personal income in December 2011 rose 0.5 percent. Nominal personal consumption expenditures (PCE) was unchanged and real PCE declined 0.1 percent. Nominal disposable personal income (DPI) rose 0.4 percent and real DPI increased 0.3 percent. The personal saving rate as a percentage of DPI was 4.0 percent in December.   Inofmation supplied ...

Passenger rates to go up 5%, effective Feb 15th. The increase will generate an additional $800,000 per year. Well, the income is on the freight side anyhow. NIPSCo needs to continue the coal shipments.

Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to today’s advance estimate. This follows a growth rate of 1.8 percent in the third quarter of 2011. Real GDP increased 1.7 percent from 2010 to 2011 overall.   Data supplied by the Economic and Statistical Adm.

IU's Leading Index shows Indiana economy on path to growth in 2012 Bill Strother, Herald-Times Indiana is solidly on its way to economic recovery, according to Indiana University’s Leading Index for Indiana. The monthly index was released Monday by the Indiana Business Research Center at the Kelley School of ...

Northwest Indiana home sales level out in 2011 By the numbers Sales of existing single-family homes increased in December in Lake County and declined in Porter County. Lake County existing single-family homes sold December 2011: 321 December 2010: 269 Porter County existing single-family homes ...

Building permits in December 2011 were 679,000, down 0.1 percent from November but up 7.8 percent from December 2010. During the full year of 2011, permits rose 1.2 percent over 2010. Housing starts in December 2011 were 657,000, down 4.1 percent from November but up 24.9 percent from December 2010. During the full year of 2011, starts increased ...

At best and worst, the right to work issue, either way, may have no effect on Indiana's economy. We have the ability and established laws to attract economic growth and a talented work force. The Republicans need to focus on what's important! My opinion................................... 

Vacant farm ground prices have risen 133% over the last 10 years. A once-in-a-generation combination of strong grain prices, high farm incomes and unprecedented interest in commodities investments has caused prices for agricultural acreage to skyrocket. Purdue University’s 2011 farmland value survey found an acre of top-quality ...

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total November exports of $177.8  billion and imports of $225.6 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $47.8 billion, up from $43.3 billion in October, revised. Info supplied by the U.S. Bureau of ...

Personal income rose 0.1% in November.   Data supplied by the Economic and Statistical Adm.