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Tag Archives: 55+ Homebuyers
Recent Housing News
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Keep Calm and Keep Buying Homes…
From a housing economist’s perspective, the prospects for the U.S. residential real estate market still look good after last week’s surprise election results.
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Real Estate Trends to Watch in 2017.
In addition to the commercial use of drones and how the President-Elect Donald Trump may impact the real estate market, many millennial buyers may skip the starter home and purchase a move-up home instead in 2017.
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55-Plus Residents Are Not All the Same.
Older adults don’t just fall into one amorphous demographic blob; they have distinct housing-need differences that builders need to address in their design and location of 55-plus communities.
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86% of buyers don’t have a clue what a CLUE report is.
If a seller made multiple property insurance claims, buyers could end up paying surprisingly higher premiums – but only 12% request a CLUE report.
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5 Smart Homes Using Connected Tech in Different Ways
Everyone has a different need for smart home technology. This round-up offers up a few examples for different types of buyers.
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Rising Rents Could Be the Real Reason People Can’t Save…
“The rent is too damn high” is more than a political slogan; it reflects the harsh reality of unaffordable housing in America today.
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Interesting Housing News
This Top 10 list of real estate developments in Tampa Bay shows just how much this area is taking off.
A cool commercial project here, another there. That’s great. But it’s easy to miss the critical mass gathering in Tampa Bay without looking at the area’s best and biggest commercial real estate developments.
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Are Rising Prices Scarier Than Rising Interest Rates?
If you’re deciding between renting and buying during Halloween, home prices are your greatest fear.
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Pinellas Realtor Organization’s Standout Stat for September 2016…
Median Sale Price for Single Family is up 16.6% Year Over Year: Sept. 2016 – $221,475 … Sept 2015 – $190,000
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Empty Nesters Poised to Make Major Housing Impact.
The population change for seniors, who are defined in this context as 55-plus, is higher than the percentage change for the US population.
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How Millennials Are Circumventing the Mortgage Process…
Student loan debt and credit card bills are making it hard for Gen Y to get bank mortgages. Many are turning to private mortgage notes to get around this.
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Tropicana Field 86-acre site vision splits development and public space 60/40.
HKS Architects is putting the final touches on a Trop site master plan that includes a new baseball stadium, towering office buildings, acres of new park space, housing, entertainment and retail.
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Housing News From This Past Week
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The increase in U.S. new-house sales outstrips forecast… And now, the housing market is entering what is traditionally its busiest season.
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“Watchful” House-hunting…
New features give home shoppers a more complete snapshot of what it would be like living in a particular neighborhood.
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Just think… your connected home could be cooler than ‘The Jetsons’. See What They Got Right, and Wrong, About the Connected Home… Pretty Smart.
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The future of the construction industry: techniques and technologies… This new infographic details the major technology advancements we could see over the next decade, as well as the impacts on our industry as a whole.
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Wealth & Health: Baby Boomers Are Driving the Housing Market… New research shows that consumers aged 55 and older will buy more than half of the new U.S. homes in the next five years.
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