Home sales fell by 13 percent in January, while the median sale price remained the same compared with a year earlier.
J. Craig Anderson
J. Craig Anderson is a seasoned business reporter who covers a wide range of topics including banking, finance, real estate, technology and entrepreneurism. Originally from Arizona, Craig graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Arizona journalism school and has gone on to report for a variety of business and consumer publications such as the Business Journal of Phoenix, the Las Vegas Sun and the Arizona Republic. His work has earned him national recognition including Sigma Delta Chi and APA Journalism awards. Craig also served in the Army for four years, working as an intelligence analyst and Arabic linguist for the National Security Agency in Maryland. He currently lives in Freeport.
New accelerator program seeks to bring Maine bioscience discoveries to market
The goal is to spur development and commercialization of discoveries that could benefit human health.
Maine’s rural broadband may get a boost
Two proposed bond measures would provide $120 million for projects in underserved areas, and the political will has grown.
ImmuCell suffers $2.3 million loss in 2018
The Portland biotech firm increased its sales but also had bigger expenses.
York County and Atlantic federal credit unions plan merger
The merger would create Maine’s largest credit union with over $712 million in assets and 47,000 members.
Orono-based tech startup CourseStorm receives $1.2 million investment
The fast-growing company produces class registration software for learning institutions, community programs and other organizations.
Probes by Maine Bureau of Insurance recovered $1.6 million from companies in 2018
The bureau investigated over 650 cases of improper billing and other bad practices.
Maine’s newest and biggest public company plans to bring 1,200 jobs to Portland
Covetrus Inc., the product of a merger between Vets First Choice and Henry Schein Animal Health, began trading Friday on the Nasdaq exchange.
Merger involving Vets First Choice will create Maine’s largest publicly traded firm
The animal-health tech company, Covetrus Inc., would have annual revenue of about $4 billion.
Maine home sales and prices hit record highs in ‘total frenzy’ of 2018
More homes changed hands, and at a higher median price, than in any year since Realtors began tracking the data 20 years ago.