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Wall Street Journal
13-06-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
House of the Week: The Yellowest Home in Indianapolis
Matt Morarity was living in Indianapolis when he decided to invest in a fixer-upper. He purchased a circa-1882 Italianate-style house in the city's Old Northside neighborhood for $300,000 in 2008. The exterior was painted a two-toned brown color with dark green trim. 'It looked like a state park building,' says Morarity, who oversees product development for an Indianapolis-based real-estate company.
Times
10-05-2025
- Business
- Times
My former drug den fixer-upper turned out to be Pope Leo's old home
A year ago this month, a Polish builder bought a fixer-upper in a suburb south of Chicago. The neighbourhood is not particularly ritzy, with its vacant houses and shops that have mostly gone out of business — other than a Chinese takeaway and the Speedy Drive Thru Food Mart, which looks as if it was built to withstand an armed assault and possibly already has done. But Pawel Radzik, who makes his living doing up houses, felt the little place had potential, and last week his renovation was very nearly complete. He was accompanying his heavily pregnant wife to a doctor's appointment when his phone rang. On the line was his estate agent, who had some big news: Radzik was in possession of the new
