Downtown Hot Springs is the Place to Be!
The heat has finally made it to Hot Springs with the heat index feeling like 101 this week. Along with the heat comes some exciting things in the real estate world in the spa city. If you haven’t been downtown in a while, you will be pleasantly surprised to see all of the improvements and new businesses popping up. There is also some big news that hit the press earlier this week. Did you hear that Arkansas’ largest hotel – The Arlington recently transferred hands in a private transaction? Sky Capitol Group LP of Little Rock acquired the hotel with plans to continue the renovations and “will be working to maintain it as one of the great American grand hotels” – according to the press release from the Sentinel Record earlier this week. We are also pleased to report the numbers for the first half of the year. The residential real estate market is now up 12% year-over-year for Garland County. Below is an overview of this year’s sales compared to this same time period year-over-year