Williamsport, PA Condos for Sale

Williamsport invited remote workers from London, New York and Pittsburgh to stay in the small Pennsylvania city for four weeks in 2024, an initiative to showcase the benefits of living in a community surrounded by mountains, farmland and forests. Around the same time, a couple from Denver drove from Pittsburg to Philadelphia, hearing about the program along the way. “They got tapped into me and asked about the program,” says Jason Fink, CEO and President of the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce. “I invited them to participate. They loved the area and made an offer on a home.” With the West Branch Susquehanna River to the south and the Allegheny Mountain Range to the north, Williamsport’s natural beauty and laid-back lifestyle have become the biggest selling points for the city of 27,000 people. Ironically, Williamsport thrived during the 1800s thanks to the logging and selling of timber. The lumber industry created more millionaires per capita than anywhere in the world in the late 1800s; it also decimated the area’s woodlands by the early 20th century, collapsing the timber sector. Besides the natural landscape, family and friends typically bring homebuyers to