Tag Archives: Housing

Universal design and cohousing principles, as well as economic necessity, spur green housing project in Oaxaca, Mexico, for aging North Americans

Alvin Starkman  M.A., LL.B.   At first blush David Hornick appears to be the most unlikely candidate to be spear-heading a housing development in the state of Oaxaca, one of the southernmost and poorest states in Mexico; his Spanish is sparse to be generous, until earlier this year he had never ventured to this part [...]

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The Cap and Trade Bill is Bad For The Housing Market & Sellers Wallets

As part of The Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, adds another layer of conditions for selling personal real estate (your home) in the United States.  The American Clean Energy and Security Act, a whopping 1,200 pages defining a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions, a [...]

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Worst 25 U.s. Housing Market Forecast Hits 13 States

The Worst 25 U.S. housing markets in 2007 in the Housing Predictor forecast represent markets in thirteen states, which shows housing prices in much of the nation are still declining, despite local markets in another 13 states that are appreciating.
Miami, Florida was selected as the #1 worst housing market in the nation, mainly because of [...]

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When Will the California Housing Market Hit Bottom?

Many people are in search of a definitive answer about when the California housing market will hit bottom. Are you biding your time before you buy a new home? Sitting around eagerly anticipating another drop in housing prices? Well, while you are sitting around waiting, somebody else is likely scooping up that lovely beach house [...]

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Trading the Housing Market

The Sub Prime problem arrived in an economy growing at over 3%. It is disturbing to speculate what will happen to the substantially weakened banks if there is a long recession and the vast bulk of medium rated mortgage risk and possibly even the huge Junk bond market come under, not just the current valuation [...]

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Improving the United Kingdom Housing Market

  Re-organizing estate agents is the cheapest way of fixing the current property crisis: After the 2008 downturn many estate agents are expected to go out of business and those that do survive won’t be able to continue in the same old format.  Why? Because now that the Internet is available to the majority of [...]

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A Look at the Future of the Housing Market

In some of the worst housing markets in the country, deflation has reached double-digit proportions. While housing woes have reached around the country, California appears to be poised to rank among the worse. One of the primary reasons for this is the fact that in the last several months California has experienced the largest rate [...]

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Housing V Gold 29.11.09

UK house prices fall 10% in 2010 and possibly another 25% in 2011. Gold Possibly to double! … “property UK house prices”

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New Housing for UK Ageing Population

The government  has launched a new housing strategy to cope with the requirements of our ageing population.
The ageing population of society is becoming an increasing problem in the UK. It is thought that over the next thirty years, the population of people in England aged 65 or over will increase 70% from 9.7 million [...]

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Why First Time Buyers are Important to the Housing Market

However, in order to move up the ladder, you have to have your place on the ladder filled by somebody else – i.e. by selling your place.
If you’re on the bottom rung of the property ladder, this place has traditionally been taken by first time buyer, and during the early part of the noughties by [...]

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