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Affordable housing inventory is limited due to foreclosure prevention efforts

Housing Wire

A key source of affordable housing inventory was cut in half over the last three years, resulting from well-intended but heavy-handed efforts to keep delinquent borrowers in homes. That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction.

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How to price homes properly in a volatile housing market

Housing Wire

We’re just trying to move inventory quickly,” said Lee Kearney, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate investor who has an inventory of between 15 and 20 homes for sale at any given time. “If High-volume home sellers are in a bit of a pickle in today’s market thanks to rapidly rising mortgage rates last year.

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Fix and flip market struggles as financing costs rise

Housing Wire

At that margin, ATTOM notes, the cost of renovations, property taxes, mortgage interest and other expenses — which in total consume 20% to 33% of the resale value — could easily cancel out any return on investment for the flipper. How long that can continue is hard to say.” People are calling it the Great Renovation.

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The Proposed NYC "Pied-A-Terre Tax" Looks Catastrophic to NYC Real Estate

Miller Samuel

Much of this speculation is being driven by two factors: sparse supply, due to the absorption of the inventory left over from the last boom, and fast-rising prices. And it is a marginal rate tax - only the amount above each threshold is taxed. As an annual property tax, the dollar thresholds will be more firm.

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IN DIRE NEED OF GENERATIONAL RESPONSE TO HOUSING SHORTFALL

Will Springer Realtor

POTENTIAL TAX SAVINGS. Skyrocketing property values in our area have their downsides. Owners face higher annual property taxes, and many are reporting difficulty paying, particularly older residents on fixed incomes. The county’s Assessors Office issues its updated property assessments between now and November.

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FINDING THE KEY TO UNLOCK ‘STUCK’ HOMEOWNERSHIP RATE

Will Springer Realtor

The multi-pronged effort includes legislative and administrative actions to increase the number of affordable units and overall inventory. >> Seattle homeowners pay a median $4580 in property taxes, based on data collected by LendingTree.com. New York City is No. 1 ($8602), followed by San Jose, Calif. 1 (6861). >>

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AN URGENT CALL FOR CHANGES TO ZONING LAWS

Will Springer Realtor

are 64% more expensive now than in 2016 and are reduced in number by more than half today: “I expect the inventory of starter homes to remain extremely tight, especially in desirable smaller markets,” Ali Wolf, chief economist at the building consultancy Zonda, told realtor.com. months of inventory in King, down from 0.7

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