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Corporate Tax Season is Here: Are You Prepared?

For business owners in Huntsville and beyond, tax season is likely high on their list of priorities right now as the end of year quickly approaches. The Huntsville Business Journal recently met with Huntsville CPA Jared Sharp of Warren Averett to discuss recent developments and pro tips for businesses as they enter the year-end planning […]

Deltek Returns to Huntsville in Big Ways

Deltek, the leading global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses, recently joined over 2,500 cyber professionals here in Huntsville at the National Cyber Summit (NCS) to focus on education, collaboration, and innovation in cyber security. The National Cyber Summit is the nation’s most innovative cyber security technology event. It offers unique educational, collaborative […]

Huntsville Ranks in Top 10 for Best Places for Career Opportunities in 2022

Despite rising inflation and recent stock market instability, it’s still a job seeker’s market. There are roughly 11 million job openings available nationwide as of May 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). For the same month, there were 6.5 million hires. Data from June 2022 shows a 4% increase in the percentage […]

Accelerating Success: JS Solutions Takes Off With Help of I2C

For local entrepreneurs, especially those in the tech field, it’s no secret that the Huntsville community is renowned for its support of businesses. There’s no reason to go it alone with the wealth of resources that are readily available, one of which is the Invention to Innovation Center (I²C), a high tech incubator located on […]

Real Estate Update: A Return to Pre-Pandemic Market Conditions

The Huntsville Area Association of Realtors’ (HAAR) report for the month of July has been released. These figures suggest that the reverberations of the pandemic disruptions to the residential real estate market have largely settled out.  802 homes sold in Madison County last month, down from 930 sold in July of 2021, and even a […]

HSV Ranks #2 in Best Places for Career Opportunities – 2022 Edition

Despite rising inflation and recent stock market instability, it’s still a job seeker’s market. There are roughly 11 million job openings available nationwide as of May 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). For the same month, there were 6.5 million hires. Data from June 2022 shows a 4% increase in the percentage […]

Imagining Huntsville’s Future: The City of the Stars

A claim, put forward by Yahoo Finance in April and further analyzed on AL.com last month, suggested that the average price of a home in Huntsville could reach a million dollars by 2030.  Seems a bit steep, doesn’t it?  And yet, this future may not be as outlandish as it appears at first glance. Gabrielle […]

Alabama ranks 45th in labor productivity among states

With numerous economic experts predicting that the U.S. is headed toward recession, one of the many concerning signals is a sharp decline in labor productivity. After more than a decade of below-average productivity growth, the COVID-19 pandemic raised the prospect of a productivity boom. Many low-productivity jobs were eliminated early in the pandemic, while major infrastructure investments and the accelerated adoption of […]

Real Estate Update: High Inflation Hits Market

The Huntsville Area Association of Realtors’ (HAAR) Economic Report for Q1 2022 illustrates the rapid inflation that has hit all aspects of American economic life. The rate of inflation hit 8% in March, a four-fold increase since that month the previous year.  With the 8% inflation rate far outstripping the approximately 2% increase in median […]

Huntsville sees wage increase while Alabama lags behind

On the surface, the economy of the last two years has been extremely favorable to workers. After spiking to nearly 15% early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate today sits around 3.6%. Despite employers’ urgency to hire, labor force participation has been slower to recover, and the “Great Resignation” has workers quitting at historic […]