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Real Estate and Design Trends to Watch in 2024

Empire Appraisal Group

Homeowners Are More Apt to Stay Put With interest rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage still high, home prices holding steady and inventory still low, many homeowners plan to stay put, optimizing or expanding their existing square footage. Laurel Vernazza, Home Design Expert at The Plan Collection— Scarsdale, N.Y.

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Remove all bathtubs from home?

Appraisal Today

. = The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States. Fowler extolls the merits of octagonal structures over traditional square or rectangular dwellings in his book. Excerpts: Paul J.

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Fannie: Words and Phrases in Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Stewart’s estate is indeed palatial, as the details and decor feel Versailles-like in nearly every room. every other week when I arrived he would have another book on fossils for me so I tried to incorporate a lot of vertebrae type motifs the whole time I was building it. The original owner of the house Jay was fascinated by fossils.