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Builders apply the brakes amid canceled contracts

Housing Wire

The best way to fight inflation is to add more supply, and when I look at the housing completion data for the past two years, it just makes me want to puke. In previous expansions, builders’ housing completion data would move in line with housing starts and permits. I personally wouldn’t do it.

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7 Problems to Watch Out for During a Home Renovation

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If necessary, consider updating your plumbing to meet modern standards and reduce the risk of future issues. Consider modernizing your electrical systems to meet current standards and accommodate the renovation's needs, including outlets, lighting and load capacity.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. The future will mean housing is abundant, affordable, beautiful, diverse, and exciting,” Ballard said. But there has not been a related rise in actual, completed homes.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

Almost since the start of the pandemic, homeowners have been spending more time enjoying their low-financed houses and condos. They have also been spending oodles of money to shape their residences to meet new living needs – modern and spacious, when possible – as households live in their homes for longer.

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CITIES FACE DAUNTING OFFICE-VACANCY CHALLENGE

Will Springer Realtor

The brighter news is that labor shortages and supply-chain disruptions are improving but it’s hardly “back to normal.” JULY HOUSING UPDATE The Seattle/King County housing market inched forward – and a little sideways – as the number of new and unsold listings continued to expand in June while fresh signs of a slowdown approached.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

Some might argue the cold is emanating from the near-frigid Q4 real estate market, knocking the bloom straight off the housing-market rose in our region. A little more than a third of inventory is under contract. A neighboring home that came on the market in April is still for sale at a record-setting $85M.

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HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS AND FAIR HOUSING RISKS

Will Springer Realtor

Clarence Stone, from American Political Science Review, offered this after reading Privatopia: “For those genuinely concerned with the moral fiber of modern America, they might well heed McKenzie’s warning about uncritically accepting the privatization of citizenship in an income-segregated society.” in Redmond. Need an incentive to buy?

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