Mayne, me and the wife re-financed our primary home, and rolled the condo into our new payment. We just did it before all the stupidity happened.
So when’s the housing bubble bursting?
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Mayne, me and the wife re-financed our primary home, and rolled the condo into our new payment. We just did it before all the stupidity happened.
Asking rent prices up 9.3% across Canada, Ontario sees only decline: report
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My dad's friends (married couple in their 70s) sold this place in 2018 and downsized to a condo.
Dad sent me a few links earlier in the week and I asked about the sales data.
His friends sold it for 1.4 million in 2018 after living there for several decades.
New owners resold it for 2.7 million in March 2023 (so it appears they got over-asking price)
I just checked the BC Assessment website to see the assessed value as of summer 2023 ...
Total value -
$2,481,000
2024 assessment as of July 1, 2023
Land
Buildings
$1,799,000 - land
$682,000 - buildings
Previous year value
Land
Buildings
$2,223,000 - previous year value
$1,533,000 - land
$690,000 - buildings
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Dad sent me a few links earlier in the week and I asked about the sales data.
His friends sold it for 1.4 million in 2018 after living there for several decades.
New owners resold it for 2.7 million in March 2023 (so it appears they got over-asking price)
I just checked the BC Assessment website to see the assessed value as of summer 2023 ...
Total value -
$2,481,000
2024 assessment as of July 1, 2023
Land
Buildings
$1,799,000 - land
$682,000 - buildings
Previous year value
Land
Buildings
$2,223,000 - previous year value
$1,533,000 - land
$690,000 - buildings
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Police in Midland were notified about the woman living in the small space that hosts the supermarket’s sign on April 23 after contractors working on the roof found her there.
The woman had flooring, a computer, a desk, a printer, a Keurig and a pantry of food in the space, which was 10 to 15 feet long, five feet wide and approximately 8 feet tall at its highest point, according to the Midland Police Department.
“We made contact with her and she was advised she was not allowed to live there,” said Brennon Warren, a spokesperson for the Midland Police Department. “She was formally trespassed from the store and was provided with information on services within our area, however, she did not wish for any of those.”
The woman, who police are not identifying, left without incident. Police found that she’d been living in the space for approximately one year, but it’s not clear how she was getting up onto the roof.
She was not formally charged for living in the space, police said.
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An Illustrated Guide to the Insane Housing Boom in Washington, D.C.
A new report covers the meteoric growth of the city's real estate market.
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It was as recently as the late 1990s when you could snag a single-family home in Washington, D.C., for under $200,000. Today, that fact seems inconceivable or even laughable, given the city's population boom and meteoric rise in real-estate costs.
The story of the U.S. capital's journey to housing affordability insanity is told in a new interactive essay by the Urban Institute, "Washington, D.C.: Our Changing City." The report features well-crafted visualizations that illustrate the city's massive changes, which have had locals alternately fretting over rising income inequality and building weird, towering "pop-up" rowhouses to exploit the rental market. Summarizes the institute:
Let's take a quick look at a couple of the report's more startling visualizations. Below is a graph tracking how the median prices of single-family homes have climbed and climbed ever since the D.C. population began swelling around 2000. Note how homes in tony Ward 2 now approach $1.3 million, up from about $550,000 in 1999, and how in places like Ward 6, prices have more than tripled since the late '90s:
The city's real-estate juggernaut is riding on such explosive fuel that it plowed through the recent recession with barely a scratch. "The D.C. housing market is so hot that during the housing crisis, prices didn't fall," writes the institute. "They just stabilized. It bucked the national trend."
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Meanwhile, the number of rental properties has risen—but generally speaking, there are more rental units today for high-income households and less for middle-to-low-income earners. Posh properties demanding rents above $1,000 almost doubled from 2005 to 2012; meanwhile, there's a scant 34,000 units asking below $800 a month compared to more than 65,000 such units in 2005:
A legion of new properties are rising across the city—probable living quarters for Millennials, who are occupying an ever-larger chunk of the local population. As to where these buildings are sprouting, have a look at this animation of more than a decade of real-estate developments. "From 2002 to 2013, approximately 600 condo developments, 4,000 single family homes, and 680 rental apartment buildings have been built or converted from vacant or nonresidential properties," writes the institute. "And, according to the Washington, DC Economic Partnership, about 9,700 rental units were under construction in 2012 and nearly 18,500 units were in the pipeline."