What’s Up With Housing?

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“Invisible” Tiny House Blends With Its Surroundings.

“Invisible Sustainability,” the blending of sustainable design principles with an aesthetic that is rigorously minimal.

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Over 23% of Construction Workers are Self-Employed.

The share of self-employed construction workers remains high, even as housing recovers.

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Calm Before the Storm: Flood insurance Could Get Messy Over Summer.

Flood insurance got more expensive this month, and it may become even pricier depending on how Congress handles the July 31 deadline to address the National Flood Insurance Program.

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6 Tips for Vetting Your Subcontractors…

It’s important to vet your subcontractors well, as you may end up paying for their potential default or mistakes.  These best practices can help ensure you have the right pros working for you.

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Florida Receiving $567,928 to Help Homeless Vets.
HUD and the VA will provide housing vouchers to help 5,211 U.S. veterans nationwide find a home. In Florida, 13 agencies across the state will split the funding.
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Multifamily Developers Want Robust, Vital Downtowns.

Suburban municipalities can help pave the way for new development by making zoning adjustments that ensure density.

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Interesting Housing News From This Past Week

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How Real Estate Developers Pay Less Tax
Donald Trump’s taxes, or lack thereof, spotlight how real estate developers legally avoid taxes that companies in other businesses would ordinarily have to pay. These tax laws keep real estate business in play, which means they can continue employing workers and hiring contractors and investing in new projects.

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Florida is the Sunshine State. Why Is It So Hard to Get Solar There?
To make solar panels affordable, many rooftop solar users sell excess electricity back onto the grid. But Florida doesn’t allow that yet.
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Housing isn’t running out of steam despite low inventory.
Between household balance sheets being healthy and the labor market continuing to make progress, Goldman Sachs says it believes the “fundamentals of the housing recovery remain solid.”
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Court: Consumer Watchdog Structure Ruled Unconstitutional.
A federal appeals court ruled CFPB’s structure – the U.S. consumer bureau with oversight over RESPA rules and most financial companies – is unconstitutional because it gives too much power to a single agency director.
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Six Things You Should Know About Future City Development.
The past decade and a half has been marked by the “back to city movement,” and young people are leaving suburbs in droves.
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Recent Housing News

For New Homes, Women Are a Tougher Sell…
Angst about health of the housing market appears stronger than men.  It is not that women don’t want to own their own homes. In fact, they want them more.

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A Housing Trend Rooted in Agriculture…
Feeding off the continuing interest in eating fresh, local food, developers are ditching golf courses and designing communities around farms, offering residents a taste of the pastoral life — and tasty produce, too.  ‘Lettuce get something to eat.
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The Presidential Election and Its Impact on Housing
Even during this election year, the desire to achieve the American Dream is greater than the fear of uncertainty of the next presidency.
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Tiny Homes Grow More Appealing for Millennials
Millennials looking to save save money and live debt-free in the aftermath of the Great Recession have began to think small…or rather, tiny.
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More Baby Boomers Migrating to the City…
An increasing percentage of boomers are leaving the suburbs for cities that are accommodating their needs.
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Interesting Housing News

Introducing the SURE House: Sustainable and Resilient
SURE House utilizes solar power and passive strategies while also designed to withstand flood waters and high-force winds.

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Five Estate Planning Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investors.  Making sure your family benefits from your real estate investments takes advance planning.

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7 Lessons from the homebuilding downturn… The prolonged downturn’s impact on the home building industry has been profound. The market dropped lower and stayed down longer than anyone anticipated it would. Some companies weathered the storm better than others, but every­one was affected.

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Realtors: Florida housing set to get 2016 boost…
The numbers from 2015 showed home sales and listings healthy.
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Lucky Eleven: Count the Tell-Tale Traits of a City That Succeeds.  These eleven signs may serve as health indicators for a city likely to gain economic strength.
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Interesting Housing News

 

Micro-apartments Are Coming to the U.S… Are You Moving In?  Interesting conversation about the newest New York living space, what its appeal could be, and how the future of apartment hunting in urban America may look in the near future.

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‪Transfer Tax‬ should be a major consideration in structuring and funding a property transaction. And the requirements for complying with, or being excluded from, transfer taxes have multiplied.
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Everything you need to know about the Federal Reserve’s expected interest rate hike… something that it hasn’t done in nearly 10 years.
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Florida rated best place to live. The Sunshine State is back on top as the most desirable state to live in… it’s all about the beach and living on the water.

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Realtor.com is taking on Zillow in a “mockumentary” campaign.  A series of online spots for Realtor.com that poke fun at rival real estate site Zillow featuring the silhouette of a house that has disappeared because it’s not listed on Zillow, and neighbors and homebuyers fretting about the growing crisis of missing homes.

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Choosing Between Risk and Certainty…
With rates so low, is it wise for people to pay off their mortgage? Won’t investing that cash in stocks and bonds be a smarter move? In a word: Certainty.

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Recent Housing News

The attainability of the American Dream at the metropolitan level. Intergenerational Mobility varies tremendously across cities in the United States, and these differences offer clues about which factors matter most for mobility.

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Tips for Tax-Savvy Jumbo Mortgage Homeowners.
With nearly three months left in 2015, jumbo-mortgage borrowers can make tweaks to cut their tax bill in April.

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Great News… Mortgages for ‪Multi Generation‬ Families.
A new Fannie Mae mortgage rule makes it easier for multi-generation families to buy a home because it also considers the salaries of the non-buying relatives.

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Has U.S. Housing and Real Estate Finally Recovered? Hedge fund manager, Metacapital Management founder Deepak Narula, is pretty bullish on the housing market, calling the fundamentals “very solid.”

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Recent Housing News

These Hipster Developers Figure They Know What Millennials Really Want… communal spaces, “authentic” design details, and walkable neighborhoods. Care to add anything?

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Moving? You Can Take This Tiny, Cheap, Smart Apartment With You Wherever You Go. If you need to move to a new city, this tiny apartment is designed to come with you.

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Terrific Synopsis (VIDEO) of the New Mortgage Disclosure Rules by Margy Grant. This is Something All Realtors, Lenders and Real Estate Professionals Need To Get Their Arms Around.

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People buy homes for various reasons. Here are 5 great motivators.

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An Unexpected Romance: Urban Farmers and Real Estate Developers. The rise of residential developers using some form of “building-integrated food production” has made for some strange bedfellows between small farmers and big builders.

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