Realtor.com<\/a>, which stated Lilly’s Upper Macungie plant, set to be fully operational in 5 years, could re-shape the regions housing market as average salaries for its 850 employees start at $100,000.<\/p>\n“As a realtor, do your eyes light up?” Bo asked Pattie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m like, I’m not ready to retire yet,” she laughed.<\/p>\n
“As a seller, you could do really well when these start coming through. Because obviously, you know, if a lot of these people are coming from out of the area, there’s a great chance they’re going to need housing,” said Cliff Lewis, President of Greater Lehigh Valley Realtors.<\/p>\n
Lewis is hopeful that area municipalities will work with developers to fast-track new developments, especially near the Lehigh, Berks County line.<\/p>\n
“The idea is that then those move up, buyers have a place to go. Which then, in turn, opens up some more supply for people trying to break into the housing market in the Lehigh Valley,” he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As demand builds faster than supply, and the median home sales prices already at $370,000, many future buyers could be left on the edge. It isn\u2019t a question of whether there will be a place to go, but where? And for how much?<\/p>\n
“I’m looking towards the west. Go west,” Heine advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – With only 535 current Lehigh Valley housing listings, the west end Allentown sale is an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,10588,8975,157,53523,1081,53524],"class_list":["post-112012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-eli-lilly","tag-housing-market","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-property-sales","tag-real-estate","tag-seller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}