The Volatility of Manufactured Home Prices HUD.gov The St. Louis Federal Reserve’s FRED site is a virtual treasure trove of data – especially housing data. Recently, FRED announced that there were adding a new real estate data component, manufactured homes. FRED says this market is separate & smaller than the widely watched single-family homes market, […]
‘Hundreds, and perhaps thousands’ of people in Mass. have received seeds from China in the mail Governor Charlie Baker said the seeds are thought to be “an invasive plant species that could be very harmful to our environment.” The post ‘Hundreds, and perhaps thousands’ of people in Mass. have received seeds from China in the
Back to School Sales Tax Holidays 2020 This weekend several states across the fruited-plain will be kicking off sales tax holidays for the back to school season. Whether you think this is good or bad public policy is irrelevant; the bottom-line is saving money! The folks over at the Tax Foundation annually put together a
US mortgage rates have slipped below 3 percent again In June, pending home sales soared 16.6 percent to the highest level since 2006. The post US mortgage rates have slipped below 3 percent again appeared first on Boston.com Real Estate.
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Eviction Moratorium Challenge Live Stream of Superior Court Hearing Thursday 10AM For those keeping track of our legal challenge to the Eviction Moratorium Act, tomorrow July 30, 2020 at 10am, the Suffolk Superior Court will be live streaming on Youtube the hearing on our motion to enjoin and strike down the Moratorium. I’ve embedded and
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U.S. Homeownership & Rental Vacancy Rates for Q2 2020 The U.S. government is reporting that the national vacancy rates in Q2 2020 were 5.7% for rental housing and 0.9% for homeowner housing. The national homeownership rate for Q2 2020 was 67.9%. In addition, approximately 90.1% of the housing units in the United States in Q2
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Covid seeding new era of consumer protection in real estate? At the Real Estate Cafe, we’re always cooking up something creative — often revisiting anniversaries and ideas that were “half baked” and still need collaborators and guest chefs to cocreate a masterpiece. One of our best events was 24 years ago (July 29, 1996) when
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12 homes you can tour from your couch (July 29) Take a 3-D tour of a dozen listings — from a 3-bed single-family in Holbrook for $ 369,900 to a 7-bed Dover mansion for $ 5.9m. The post 12 homes you can tour from your couch (July 29) appeared first on Boston.com Real Estate.
Successfully Using the Past to Manage in the Present Successfully Using the Past to Manage in the Present by David Pickron We have all heard the phrase “live in the present and forget about the past,” but rarely do we hear the opposite of that. Currently we are in a challenging situation in regard to
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Top 10 Metros with Highest Foreclosure Rates in Q2 According to ATTOM Data Solutions’ recently released U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, the number of properties with foreclosure filings hit an all-time low with 165,530 filings reported. Nationally, 0.12% of all housing units (one in every 824 housing units) had a foreclosure filing in the first half
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