Eye On Housing
A new NAHB Economics research article shows that the effective real estate tax rates vary substantially across and within counties, with the highest rate area displaying rates that are often multiple times higher than the lowest rate areas within the same county. An “effective property tax rate” is the amount of property tax paid divided by the value of the home… Read More ›
NAHB recently released new county estimates of remodeling in owner-occupied homes to members of NAHB Remodelers. The estimates are based on a model developed by NAHB using the American Housing Survey (HUD/U.S. Census Bureau) with county-level inputs from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The inputs are based on data collected from 2006 to 2010, so the resulting estimates are for remodeling by home owners during… Read More ›