For many first-time home buyers, the idea of a 20% down payment is terrifying. It’s one of the biggest obstacles to homeownership. Maybe you want to own a home someday, but the thought of saving up thousands of dollars for a home purchase has deterred you from seriously considering it. Believe it or not, it […]

The Safest Cities in America. 1. Cary, North Carolina > Violent crimes per 100,000: 50.5 > 2015 murders: 5 > Poverty rate: 6.7% > Unemployment rate: 3.8% No city is safer than Cary, where just 51 violent incidents were reported last year for every 100,000 city residents — a fraction of the national violent crime […]

Town of Cary Facebook Page: Cary is the safest community of our size in America. Safe we are! National media are reporting that Cary is the safest community of our size in America based on recent FBI crime statistics. Effective policing is just part of what keeps Cary safe, and we couldn’t achieve this great […]

Corning adds 105 jobs in Hickory. “Corning Optical Communications will spend $30 million to expand production at its Hickory cabling and assembly production plant while adding 105 jobs at the facility. It’s a part of a two-city expansion for the Corning Inc. subsidiary in North Carolina. A plant in Winston-Salem gets 100 jobs and $83.5 […]

Fidelity Investments, amid 600-job expansion, shuffles Triangle leadership roles as reported by TBJ. “…Boston banking firm Fidelity Investments, currently in the midst of a 600-job expansion in Durham, is undergoing a leadership shuffle in the state…. …Fidelity has 4,000 employees in the Triangle. Last year, the company picked Durham over Chennai, India, for the 600-job […]

Another Job Announcement for Triangle: Almac Group, a contract research organization plans to add 102 jobs in Durham. “Almac Group, a contract research organization from Northern Ireland, has picked Durham for an expansion that adds 102 jobs… …Almac plans to create the clinical and diagnostics jobs over five years and invest more than $6.1 million. […]

Raleigh is Best City to Live in Southeast according to Money Magazine. Summary from Money Magazine: “AT A GLANCE Population 432,657 Median Home Price $208,250 Average Property Tax $2,495 Unemployment Rate 4.3% After the financial crisis, New Yorker Mike Eklund decided it was time to change careers, from banking to financial planning, and hometowns. He […]

Raleigh is Best City to Live in Southeast according to Money Magazine. (Note: The Best Place to live in North Carolina is Cary.) “Raleigh has made these best-places lists a lot. So often, in fact, we started feeling a bit jaded about them, even smug. We could recite the reasons why without pause: good schools, […]

Relias Learning first round of hiring (50 new people) this Thursday. Job Fair: Thursday, September 22, 2016 from 6 to 8 PM at Relias Learning on 111 Corning Rd, Suite 250. Attire is business casual. They chose Cary because of quality of life, relatively low cost of living, the school system and the weather. “Relias […]

Triangle housing market update. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl37ggkI9m8&feature=youtu.be