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Houston Housing Market Forecast: Current Data & 2021 Predictions

Houston Properties

COVID-19 and subsequent government actions have dumped gasoline on wealth inequality in ways that we don’t fully understand yet. On the other hand, the four restaurant workers would still need to spend monthly payments for rent, food, transportation, and insurance. Properties are still going under contract.

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

Miller Samuel

Andrew Cuomo's office suggested last week that such a levy might reap $9 billion for the moribund Metropolitan Transportation Authority over the next decade and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie reiterated his chamber's support proposal at a Crain's breakfast forum days later. Mayor Bill de Blasio gave it his blessing as well.

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Appliances for FHA appraisals

Appraisal Today

The tremendous growth in the creation of infrastructure for the expansion of major cities, water systems, canals for transportation of goods, road and street systems, inevitably required acquisition of private property. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages backed by the FHA decreased to 6.57

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

Housing inventory nationwide flipped from oversupply to undersupply about a dozen years ago when consumers and the banking industry began to slowly rebound financially from the Great Recession. America’s shortfall is most acute with the most vulnerable, as affordable housing inventory has been shrinking for decades.

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Expectations for 2023 in Seattle/King County Real Estate

Will Springer Realtor

That real estate party of unquenchable buyer demand against a backdrop of low inventory is over. Fuel to fill our vehicle gas tanks and to transport goods weigh heavily on inflation; 18% of the Consumer Price Index is for transportation costs – the second largest component of the CPI after housing/shelter (42%).

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

month backlogs of contract work, as of Q4 (latest data available), which is down from the peak of 4.8 THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND Local governments across our state (including North Seattle looking south, pictured) are undergoing a massive review of their land-use regulations in something called a Comprehensive Plan.

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A CALL FOR MORE ACCESSORY DWELLINGS AMID HOUSING CRUNCH

Will Springer Realtor

Many local governments permit at least one dwelling unit with the main residence and some locales accept an attached and detached unit on the same property. The cities of Seattle and Renton offer pre-approved ADU designs to help streamline the government-approval process which can often be onerous. Single-family inventory stands at 2.5