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  2. Real Estate: 10 Housing Markets Buyers are Flocking to as ...

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    The 30-year mortgage rate dropped to 6.47% as of August 8 — its lowest rate in more than a year, according to Freddie Mac. While this is still a far cry from the 2% and %3 days of a few years ...

  3. Ground rent - Wikipedia

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    Ground rent. As a legal term, ground rent specifically refers to regular payments made by a holder of a leasehold property to the freeholder or a superior leaseholder, as required under a lease. In this sense, a ground rent is created when a freehold piece of land is sold on a long lease or leases. [ 1] The ground rent provides an income for ...

  4. Rules for buying and selling a home are changing. Here's what ...

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    That customary rate is no longer the default. Sellers can now expect to be asked for just one side of the commission pot, or what would now average 2.5% to 3%. "For the first time now, buyers will ...

  5. Leasehold estate - Wikipedia

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    Leasehold is a form of land tenure or property tenure where one party buys the right to occupy land or a building for a given time. As a lease is a legal estate, leasehold estate can be bought and sold on the open market. A leasehold thus differs from a freehold or fee simple where the ownership of a property is purchased outright and after ...

  6. Depreciation recapture - Wikipedia

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    Depreciation recapture. Depreciation recapture is the USA Internal Revenue Service ( IRS) procedure for collecting income tax on a gain realized by a taxpayer when the taxpayer disposes of an asset that had previously provided an offset to ordinary income for the taxpayer through depreciation. In other words, because the IRS allows a taxpayer ...

  7. The change that Realtors’ powerful trade group resisted for ...

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    Much of that is by design, reinforced by the National Association of Realtors, a mega trade group with monopoly-like control over US real estate. There’s good news and bad news on the horizon ...

  8. Highest and best use - Wikipedia

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    The highest and best use of the site is to demolish the house and sell the site as a commercial lot. The market value would be $225,000 ($250,000 site value minus $25,000 demolition cost). However, if the demolition costs rose to $55,000, the highest and best use would be the existing residential use, because the value as a commercial lot (now ...

  9. ‘Something was terribly wrong’: North Carolina homeowners ...

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    Commercial real estate has beaten the stock market for 25 years — but only the super rich could buy in. Here's how even ordinary investors can become the landlord of Walmart, Whole Foods or Kroger