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Uncertain future, forgetting the past

Annarbor Appraisal

This information clearly shows a declining trend from the 2005 data down to a low point between 2009 and 2011. Houses in blue, condominium units in orange, new construction included. What about property taxes and their effect on affordability? Year to year trends. What happens if the unemployment rate tops 30%?

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

months, builders will halt the rate of growth for new construction plans as they did in 2018 and again for a brief period this year. months, the builders are ok with construction as long as new home sales grow. This period was also during a lull in our prime-age labor force growth, so demand was soft during the years 2006-2011.

Inventory 544
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7 Takeaways: Due Diligence Fee and Earnest Money in Real Estate

Raleigh Realty

Introduced in 2011, due diligence money is a fee that is paid directly to the seller in a real estate transaction and is due immediately though sometimes it is paid a few hours after the execution of the contract. Any existing easements on the property which legally allow another party to use someone else’s property.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A A growing diversified base of technology companies continue to proclaim the Eastside market as one of the best living and job opportunities in the country,” noted local commercial property firm Broderick Group in a report issued last month. “A million sq.

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SFR, fix-and-flip sectors are in a ‘bit of a malaise’

Housing Wire

Barber added that, unfortunately, the current profit-margin mark “could easily be wiped out by flipping carrying costs — mainly mortgage payments, renovation costs and property taxes.” The CoreLogic report also notes that SFR investors are now more likely to be smaller players, operating three to nine properties.

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