Raleigh Market

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Raleigh Market
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• Raleigh 2

2008 Best Cities To Live, Work and Play
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• Oh it is so hard to be humble when you live in
  such a wonderful place. Kiplinger recently named
  Raleigh 2in Places to Live. Why did they choose
  Raleigh? Aside with being a great place with
  great weather and to raise a family, one of the
  most important things is We have jobs!
• The Raleigh-Cary market is one of only a handful
  in the country that is not devastated by the
  current economy. I dont have to tell you that we
  have a mess out there but there is a safe haven
  a Blue Chip area -- and that is called the
  Raleigh-Cary North Carolina real estate market.

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Raleigh Number ONE!!

• City has low unemployment, job growth, and high
  incomes yet it still maintains a relatively low
  cost of living.
• forbes.com, 2/16/07

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Accolades for Raleigh-Cary

• 2 Best Place for Business
• Forbes, May 2006
• 2 Best Places for Business Careers
  Forbes, May 2005
• 3 Most Educated City 
• US Census Bureau, January 2006
• Top 10 Metro Areas for Job Growth
  Business 2.0, May 2007

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Accolades for Raleigh-Cary

• Top Ten Tech Town (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
  Wired Magazine, January 2007
• Top 50 Hottest Cities for Expanding and
  Relocating Companies
  Expansion Management
• February 2007

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Accolades for Raleigh-Cary

• 7 Business Boomtown (Raleigh-Cary, NC)
  Inc., May 2007
• 4 Hottest Job Market for Young Adults
  Bizjournals, April 2007
• 8 Fastest Growing Metro in the Nation
• US Census Bureau, April 2007

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Continued Job Growth
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We have jobs!!!

• Raleigh-Cary MSA Job Growth
• 2006 - 5.1
• 2007 - 3.6
• Unemployment 4.2

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Wake County Schools THE BEST!!

• Rated 1
• Best Public Education System in the Country
• Expansion Management, December 2005
• Rated 2
• Best Public Education System (Raleigh-Cary)
• Expansion Management, April 2005
• Rated 3
• Best Education in the Biggest Cities
• Forbes, February 2004

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Wake County Schools THE BEST!!

• Rated 1 School District in the Nation for
  Certified Teachers (Wake County)National Board
  of Certified Teachers, January 2007
• Gold Rating (Wake County Schools)Expansion
  Management's Education Quotient, January 2007

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• One of the sweet spots in our market is the RTP
  it is the heart of the Triangle. We call it
  RTP, The Park, Research Triangle Park. But
  whatever you call it is where much of the magic
  happens.

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Research Triangle Park
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• We have diversity in our market. We are not
  focused on one or two industries. We have four
  mail economic anchors Education (NCSU, UNC and
  Duke are the major universities where a lot of
  research goes on) Medical Research (with
  GlaxoSmithKline along with many clinical research
  organizations) Technology (Software development
  telecommunications (Cisco Systems and Nortel)
  Government (EPA and State Government as we are
  the Capital city of North Carolina)

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Cornerstones of Triangle Economy

• Government
• Medical Research Education
• Technology

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Raleigh/Triangle Area Largest Employers

• State of North Carolina - 36,725
• Duke Univ and Medical Center 27,328
• University of NC 15,588
• IBM 13,300

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Triangle Area Largest Employers

• Wake County Schools 12,997
• NC State University 7,787
• Wake Medical Center 7,000
• UNC Healthcare 6,819
• GlaxoSmithKline 4,800

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• Although 47,000 go to work everyday in the RTP,
  there are 31,000 who go to work downtown.
• When you think of a work force of over ½ million,
  you can see employment is spread out over the
  county and the beltline system provides easy
  access to all.

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The Skylines Future
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• Lets talk about housing! That is where you come
  in. We have a need for rentals in our area. The
  days on the market to rent has been reduced.
• Housing permits are down 47
• Sales are down 25

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Appreciation Last 10 Years
Information provided by Triangle Area Regional
Real Estate Report
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Inventory
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East and South East Wake County
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Southwest Wake County
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Continued Job Growth
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SMART Market

• Stable
• Momentum
• Appreciation
• Resilient
• Timely

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SMART

• Stable 4 cornerstones of employment
• Momentum - continue to get jobs that support our
  highly educated work force
• Appreciation continuing to grow in appreciation
  and population
• Resilient only last year did we notice national
  economy
• Timely cannot offer you a better time

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