Still, more than two decades ago, Ryan – an agent with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach who has been selling real estate and investing in the Art Museum and Fairmount neighborhoods for the last 40 years – really did predict that long-neglected Francisville, located just to the north of them, would rise again.

He was right, and in a bigger way than even he could have predicted. The Francisville boom has not resulted in the neglect of Fairmount, he says, “where people are still buying rowhouses for $300,000, tearing them down, and starting over.” Full Article on Inquirer >>