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...As Jessica Lautz, the deputy chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, recently told The Hill: “Boomers are not downsizing and millennials — first-time buyers in particular — are buying later...
...Yet most stained-glass production remains smaller in scale, with artists working in garages and home studios. Perhaps Clarke’s show at Hirst’s gallery will trigger a reassessment of what glass can do....
...This comes at a dramatic cost both to the environment and the homeowners, according to a striking new study of energy use in 14mn English homes....
...He reckons that about 30 per cent of homeowners have mortgages below three per cent on their current homes....
...Association of Realtors....
...One day in February, Kelly Woodruff woke to discover that a mural had appeared on the side of a rental property owned by her father in Barton Hill, one of Bristol’s most deprived areas....
...Any proceeds from grape sales go back into a homeowners’ association....
...“You have very few people you can count on to help you,” Ms Hazlett, who founded a local homeowners’ association, explained. “You can’t really build up a base to do things.”...
...With most St George’s Hill residents likely to be second or multiple homeowners and those at the top end circulating between several properties around the world, many of the biggest homes may be left empty...
...Prof Cheshire cites Lodge Hill on the Hoo peninsula in Kent, where Medway Council wants to build thousands of homes at a nesting ground for endangered nightingales....
...Robert Dietz, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders, says many people would choose to claim the increased standard deduction over the mortgage deduction....
...“Eliminating or nullifying the tax incentives for home ownership puts home values and middle class homeowners at risk,” he said....
...O’Brien, a board member of the Hollywoodland Homeowners Association, insists that tourism in the area has become such a problem that she would even welcome moving the sign elsewhere....
...Prospective homeowners have to go through a lengthy application process, and there are restrictions on renting homes out....
...against his homeowners’ association in the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco....
...Some homeowners are hoping the regeneration might help rejuvenate the area’s struggling property market....
...If they do, people living by rivers will still pay a little more than those who live at the top of hills, but the difference will be less than at present. Who benefits?...
...At the top end, waterside homes are typically second or third homes — 59 per cent of prime homes sold by Savills since 2013 in Salcombe and Dartmouth, Devon’s estuary jewels, fall into this category....
...Government policy is aimed at boosting home ownership....
...The rise in the minimum wage was welcomed by providers of care-at-home services. Most of this, which includes home nursing, is purchased by local authorities on a case-by-case basis....
...There will be no net loss of social homes, says Kate Davies, chief executive of Notting Hill Housing, the not-for-profit housing association chosen to develop the site, though rents will rise....
...In the long term, Mr Obama is calling for a fundamental shift in taxpayers’ role in supporting home ownership, an idea that is supported by Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill....
...Investors, moreover, are only buying securities backed by the most expensive homes....
...“It’s a constantly moving target,” says Simon Hills, an executive director at the British Bankers’ Association. “It’s where the contention between regulators and lenders is going to be.”...
...to argue that a system without the GSEs would be more expensive for homeowners....
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