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100+ YEARS IN, ZONING LAWS INCH TOWARD HOUSING EQUITY

Will Springer Realtor

Suburban residents can be almost assured of the peaceful enjoyment of their home without worrying about a neighbor constructing a rollercoaster or baseball stadium next door. The first makes permanent a pandemic-related policy that exempts affordable housing from the design review process. . = Zoning laws in the U.S.

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Will Springer Realtor

Builders are trying to catch up and, according to federal officials , there are more housing units under construction today than at any time in the last 50 years. An annual survey released this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said renters put the probability of ever owning a home at 40%, down from 44% last year.

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HOUSING ‘TRIFECT’ PUTTING SQUEEZE ON BUYERS

Will Springer Realtor

Others are specializing in the design and construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as detached backyard homes (also known as “ mother-in-laws ”). The national trend for new construction, however, is generally moving in the opposite direction. In the 1990s, one-third of new homes were smaller than 1800 sq.

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CAN HOUSING SHORTAGE CATCH UP TO EASTSIDE DEMAND?

Will Springer Realtor

just as Google opens another office building in Kirkland and Microsoft expands its 120-structure Redmond campus with plans for 17 new office buildings. All this tech construction gives new meaning to IT architecture! “A BY THE NUMBERS. >> The average size of a newly constructed single-family home is now 2524 sq.

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FED’S ACTIONS TAKE STEAM OUT OF HOUSING MARKET

Will Springer Realtor

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, is far more bearish, predicting prices will fall about 10% nationally over the next 12-18 months if the country avoids a recession (which is unlikely) and drop roughly 20% by 2024 if the U.S. The number of new listings in the previous month and remaining on the market as of Oct.

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PREDICTIONS, PARKING, POLLUTED PIPES

Will Springer Realtor

To a happy 2024! = What does 2024 look like for the national housing scene and across Seattle/King County? I offer two observations gleaned from a lot of reading and speaking with experts: Mortgage rates, falling for roughly the past two months, will likely start with a “6” in the first half of 2024. 19) at 10am PT.

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Millennials Expected To Maintain Real Estate Buying Intensity

Will Springer Realtor

Roughly 20 million Millennials will be entering their 30s, typically the time they purchase their first home, between now and 2024. Now, home builders would need to construct as many as 1.2 This was the fastest pace for combined single-family and multi-family construction since June 2006. million individuals annually.