Newark's real estate market prices has been increasing and the city recently announced a plan to develop vacant lots. 

Asheville staff aren't going to announce it. https://www.carolinajournal.co...

We had heard some advice that by announcing the home for rent we could gauge the interest and gather info on what sites attracted more attention.

I have to second what Jon said, about announcing publicly that you have a large sum of money (even a small sum gets this same admonishment BTW), and that all sorts of offers will be coming your way.And you will find that people making suggestions to you will be pushing things that they personally have invested in (hmmm, maybe you'll be a willing "sucker" to take some "top quality" / dog deals from them) ...

Some people in my office are already seeing record months coming up (contracts pending now).A couple of big business have announced moving in lately.

-Hewlett Packard just announced a new facility coming to Pontiac which will add 250 new tech jobs.

Also, I just found out that the trustee sale announcement was posted in March.

The main concern I had was with the cost and terms of commercial loans... with this announcement, lenders now should have a better sense of intermediate term rate direction and possibly we'll probably see increased loan activity as a result.

The Fed announcement that they don't plan to change the current rate for two more years should give the lenders confidence that they can continue to do business as usual for the next couple of years.BTW, banks have always had lending standards.

Fannie came out with a new announcement about this 9/08.