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A property tax reckoning is coming

Housing Wire

The culprit is property tax bills, which arrived on April 1, bearing property tax increases driven by fast-rising home prices. In Spokane, the average property tax bill has risen from about $2,500 in 2019 to about $3,000 in 2021, tax assessment data shows. Pick your battles.

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Affordable housing inventory is limited due to foreclosure prevention efforts

Housing Wire

That key source of affordable housing inventory: distressed properties sold to third-party buyers or repossessed by lenders at foreclosure auction. Once the transfer of ownership occurs at foreclosure auction, a distressed property can be renovated and returned to the retail market as affordable housing for homeowners or renters. “[I

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How to Sell Your House Fast in Chicago with Targeted Updates and Spot-on Pricing

Chicagoland Appraisal Blog

Last year was a tough market, and the only properties that were moving were the ones that were renovated,” she says. When the market is soft, buyers want the properties that are finished and ready to go.”. Sebring is seeing a surge in industrial-style sinks and vanities in Chicago bathroom renovations.

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IN DIRE NEED OF GENERATIONAL RESPONSE TO HOUSING SHORTFALL

Will Springer Realtor

Housing affordability decreased in 45 of the 50 states from 2012 to 2019. Washington state now (right) has less than 45% of all households able to afford the median priced home (as of 2019, when the state’s median figure was more than $100,000 less than today). POTENTIAL TAX SAVINGS. percentage points. million home sales.