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A look at Knoxville’s hot housing market

Housing Wire

According to the Knoxville Area Association of Realtors , the number of houses for sale in 2020 was down 47.5% Owen Poveda, a broker for RE/MAX preferred company Home in the Smokies , said he gets between six to 12 offers per property, usually with bids heading up to 10% over asking price. year-over-year. It’s like a horse race.

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How to grow housing supply in 2021

Housing Wire

housing market was the single best outperforming economic sector globally during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. 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.

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Build-for-rent is a bet on the ‘new normal’ housing market

Housing Wire

Construction starts in the BFR market are being propelled by the ongoing demand for single-family rental units as high mortgage rates and limited for-sale inventory push home-purchase prospects further out of reach of many would-be homebuyers. In addition, JP Morgan Chase & Co. metro areas.

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Institutional SFR players are stuck in the doldrums

Housing Wire

But the caveat, of course, is that all bets are off if there’s a more meaningful contraction in lending [in the wake of recent bank failures and other economic factors] because then you’re in serious trouble,” Petrosinelli added.

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

Miller Samuel

A large swath of high-end condo market activity of the past five years are non-primary residences which include pieds-a-terres but most are investor purchases that are subsequently rented after the unit closes when construction was completed. January: The closing of the $238,000,000 Manhattan condo sale in January (2015 contract).

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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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FINDING THE KEY TO UNLOCK ‘STUCK’ HOMEOWNERSHIP RATE

Will Springer Realtor

They include shortages caused by restrictive zoning that limit the number and type of housing units built on a given parcel, a “not in my backyard” resistance to new construction in traditionally single-family-home neighborhoods, and layers of regulations, processes and fees that dissuade developers from building in certain areas.

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