Market research for clients leads me down interesting rabbit holes. Lately, in working with folks in the Elizabethtown Area School District, I delved heavily into home sales for the four municipalities that make up EASD. Who would have thought the township of roughly 4,000 residents nestled in the northwestern corner of Lancaster county, with no major industry, would show up its neighbors in home salability?
From January to May, the median price of a home in Conoy Township was $244,750. Compare this to Elizabethtown Borough ($194,000), Mount Joy Township ($226,000), and West Donegal Township ($234,950).
Kevin McKain, Conoy Township supervisor, shed some light on the township's appeal to home buyers.
"We're a rural setting; it's very quaint here. Alm...