How Does Your State Rank with Property Taxes?
How Does Your State Rank with Property Taxes? As part of their recent 2020 State Business Tax Climate Index, the Tax Foundation calculated state & local taxes on real and personal property, net worth, and asset transfers. The property tax component accounted for 16.6% of each state’s overall Index score. Taking that data, they put […]
US mortgage rates unchanged, at 3.73%
US mortgage rates unchanged, at 3.73% US long-term mortgage rates were unchanged this week, staying near historically low levels. The post US mortgage rates unchanged, at 3.73% appeared first on Boston.com Real Estate.
AAA Predicts Record-Breaking Travel this Christmas Season
AAA Predicts Record-Breaking Travel this Christmas Season The venerable American Automobile Association (aka AAA) says that America is on tap for another record-breaking number of travelers this holiday season – predicting that over 115 million people will do so. Attributing those numbers to a good economy (and lower gas prices), AAA says over 104 million […]
Doctors tell you how to avoid the emergency room this winter
Doctors tell you how to avoid the emergency room this winter ‘Obviously time is of the essence, but it’s measured in hours, not minutes, even for amputated parts.’ Get more expert advice at realestate.boston.com. The post Doctors tell you how to avoid the emergency room this winter appeared first on Boston.com Real Estate.
Spending is just Beginning for Millennials
Spending is just Beginning for Millennials We’ve been following the millennials for a few years now…Maybe this is it. Citing recent housing data, Mad Money’s Jim Cramer says the wait is over as millennials are now buying homes in larger numbers than before. He says millennials’ delay in buying a home is over and that […]
Luxury Home of the Week: For $5.2 million, a ‘Modern Queen’ in Newton
Luxury Home of the Week: For .2 million, a ‘Modern Queen’ in Newton ‘Everything that you see there is custom. … It looks period, but everything there is new.’ See inside at realestate.boston.com. The post Luxury Home of the Week: For $ 5.2 million, a ‘Modern Queen’ in Newton appeared first on Boston.com Real Estate.
Mayor Walsh signs a petition to charge a fee for luxury real estate sales
Mayor Walsh signs a petition to charge a fee for luxury real estate sales The mayor wants to impose a fee on the purchase price of any private real estate sale over $ 2 million in the city to pay for affordable housing. | realestate.boston.com The post Mayor Walsh signs a petition to charge a […]
National Loan Delinquency Rate Down 6.9% from 2018
National Loan Delinquency Rate Down 6.9% from 2018 Black Knight’s “first look” report for October, 2019 says that there were just under 44k foreclosure starts, with the National delinquency rate falling to 3.39% in October, a nearly 7% decline from 2018. In addition, they also reported that serious delinquencies fell by 10k from September, while […]
San Francisco’s Sh*tuation is Out of Control
San Francisco’s Sh*tuation is Out of Control This is one of those stories that is hard to believe until you actually read about it. Apparently, the public defecation problem has gotten so out of hand, so extraordinary, in San Francisco that interactive graphs and charts have been produced to highlight its seriousness. So bad in […]
Listed: For under $900,000, a ski-in, ski-out log cabin in Maine
Listed: For under 0,000, a ski-in, ski-out log cabin in Maine The log cabin-like house is not a cabin at all, but a six-bed, three-bath ski chalet. See inside this and other vacation listings at realestate.boston.com. The post Listed: For under $ 900,000, a ski-in, ski-out log cabin in Maine appeared first on Boston.com Real […]