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Written by Drew Kirk of the Kirk Realty Team Despite what many predicted, the housing market continues to hold steady. Sales prices dipped month-over-month during the initial phase of interest rate hikes but have quickly recovered. The days-on-market count has plummeted this year because the demand for housing, particularly in Indiana, continues to outpace supply. […]

Blogpost by Drew Kirk – Member of Kirk Realty Team The real estate industry often feels wildly transactional. We believe it should be more relational. This is because we perceive the real estate as a service industry, not a sales industry. If we approached real estate as a sales industry, our clients would just become

Distinct neighborhoods deserve distinct homes. Situated just west of Irvington on the east side of Indianapolis, the neighborhood of Emerson Heights boasts plenty of Arts & Crafts, early 20th century bungalows. The Emerson Heights neighborhood dates to the 1910s when developers purchased farmland on the edge of Indianapolis’s east side, divided it onto parcels, and

Blogpost by Spencer Ruark – Member of Kirk Realty Team & Board Member of 91 Place Real Estate is a complicated industry. Every Realtor is able to shape and build their business however they see fit. As a result, the industry itself is not monolithic. Just as there are many ways to interact with real

Distinct neighborhoods deserve distinct homes. Situated just south of the downtown commercial district of Indianapolis, the Bates–Hendricks neighborhood features homes built as early as the 1820s. Construction techniques, interior layouts, and design styles have drastically changed over the last 200 years, but the Bates–Hendricks neighborhood has stood firm as a distinct presence in Center Township.

In March 2022, Joel Kirk and I [Phil Kirk] purchased a 10,000 square foot, mixed-use commercial building in the heart of the Garfield Park neighborhood. This century-old building faces the 128-acre Park, the Red Line Transit, the Indiana Pacers Bike-share, Big Car’s Tube Factory campus, and other small businesses.  The pride and joy of the Garfield

On the surface, NeighborLink Indianapolis has a simple mission: to help low-income seniors and individuals with disabilities who own their own homes – age in place safely and with dignity. How is this accomplished? By providing home repairs at no cost to the homeowner. It is a simple mission with a simple task. But upon

Indianapolis is a very connected city, but each neighborhood has a set of distinctive characteristics. Although the Franks were already Indy-locals, homeowners, and rental property owners – they were finally ready to find a more permanent place to call their own homestead. Now that they have settled into their Meridian-Kessler home, the Franks family offered

What separates a good agent from a bad agent?  Experience? Knowledge? Responsiveness? Absolutely.  In this challenging marketplace the often overlooked and undervalued skill that comes top of mind for KRT is the art of maintaining our own and our client’s emotional capacities. LOGIC VS. EMOTION We all have milestone events that engage our emotions: applying