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Thursday, September 28, 2017
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Home values rise for the first time in five years - Jul. 24, 2012
Home values rise for first time in 5 years
@CNNMoney July 24, 2012: 5:16 AM ET
Home prices nationwide have hit a bottom, and home values are finally on the rise.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Home prices hit a bottom and are finally bouncing back, according to an industry report released Tuesday.
Nationwide, home values rose 0.2% year-over-year to a median $149,300 during the second quarter, the first annual increase since 2007, real estate listing site Zillow reported. Prices were up 2.1% from the first quarter.
Even though June marked the fourth consecutive month of home value increases, overall home prices are still down almost 24% since April 2007, when Zillow began to track home values.
"It seems clear that the country has hit a bottom in home values," said Zillow's chief economist Stan Humphries. "The housing recovery is holding together despite lower-than-expected job growth, indicating that it has some organic strength of its own."
Last winter, Zillow projected that the housing market turnaround would not arrive until the end of the year.
Other home price indexes have also recorded gains lately, including the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index. In it latest release, it reported that home prices in 20 major markets rose 1.3% in April, the first monthly increase in seven months.
Zillow uses a different methodology in calculating home values than other home price indexes like Case-Shiller and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Sales of foreclosed, bank-owned properties, for example, are not factored into Zillow's data. Zillow does include short sales, however, which are more difficult to distinguish from conventional sales.
"Our index is geared to consumers, conventional sellers deciding whether they want to put their homes on the market," said Humphries.
The indexes that include foreclosures in their market data show larger price declines. The peak-to-trough drop for the Case-Shiller home price index, for example, is about 34% compared with Zillow's 24%.
Fewer than one third of the 167 metro areas Zillow surveyed recorded annual increases in home values, but the size of the price gains in these areas more than offset the losses posted by the remaining two-thirds of the markets.
In Phoenix, the biggest gainer, home values soared 12.1% year-over-year to a median of $136,200. Meanwhile, the biggest loss sustained by any of the 30 largest metro areas was in Chicago where median home values fell 5.8% to $158,600.
Foreclosures remain one of the biggest risks to the housing market recovery, Humphries said. In the wake of the national foreclosure settlement which clarified how banks can legally pursue foreclosures, Humphries expects the pace of foreclosures to pick up.
"That will translate to more homes on the market," he said. "But we think demand will rise to absorb that."
Zillow expects the housing market to continue to slowly recover, with median home values projected to climb 1.1% -- relatively flat -- over the next 12 months.
Beaten down markets like Phoenix, Las Vegas and many Florida cities, will likely record greater-than-average gains over the next 12 months, said Humphries.
The results in those places, however, will be bumpy. Home price increases will cause some homeowners who have been patiently waiting for values to rebound to put their homes on the market. And those additional listings could cool prices for a while, resulting in a staircase effect with "price spikes followed by plateaus," said Humphries.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
For Sale: Al Capone’s Miami Beach Mansion
For Sale: Al Capone’s Miami Beach Mansion
July 21, 2012 7:40 PM
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Al Capone’s family hideaway near Miami Beach is for sale.
However, you better have a fat wad of cash: the property is priced at just under $10 million.
Among the mansion’s features:
- Seven bedrooms
- Seven bathrooms
- 100 feet (football-field-sized) waterfront access on Biscayne Bay
- Verandas
- Recreation room
- Private dock
- Black-and-gold Art Deco powder room that looks the same as when Al Capone used it
After purchasing the Palm Island mansion in 1928 for $40,000, the iconic gangster plotted the infamous Valentine’s Day Massacre there.
The current owner restored the 0.7-acre mansion to its original gangster glamour, just as Capone left it when he died of a heart attack there in 1947.
Seriously interested (or just curious)? View a slideshow of the mansion.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
New Brickell project wants a low profile for cars - Business - MiamiHerald.com
New Brickell project wants a low profile for cars - Business - MiamiHerald.com
How to build a three-block mall, office and condo complex without a garage next door? Put it underground.
BY DOUGLAS HANKS
DHANKS@MIAMIHERALD.COM
As Swire Properties sets out to build one of the boldest developments ever seen in downtown Miami, it hopes to keep one crucial element as low-profile as possible: automobiles.
The Hong Kong developer’s planned Brickell CitiCentre will spend millions of dollars freezing the soil beneath the three-block complex to hold back ground water while it installs a rare underground parking garage in Miami’s downtown. Swire took the unusual step of putting the restaurants for its mall on a top floor in part because that’s the same level as the adjoining station for Miami’s county-run Metromover.
Swire’s top U.S. executive told a business group Wednesday that the $1 billion CitiCentre was designed to thrive in a future where Miami residents are far less enamored with driving to work and play than they are now.
“We don’t think petrol will be $5 a gallon forever,” Stephen Owens, president of Swire Properties Inc., told a breakfast reception held by the Beacon Council, Miami-Dade’s economic-development group. “We’re living in a world of subsidized energy, and we don’t think it can last forever.”
The push to make CitiCentre more pedestrian friendly also meshes with Miami’s ambitions to become more of a 24-hour metropolis, where thriving shopping areas serve both offices and residences. The city’s Miami 21 zoning code now bans developers from building garages at sidewalk level, instead requiring restaurants and shops there to make streets seem more lively for pedestrians. And advocates for Miami’s downtown are pushing for more trees and sidewalk improvements to make the city’s retail offerings more inviting for riders of the city’s under-used MetroMover.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
55 Merrick Way unit 506
Coral Gables, Florida
MLS A1602665
Great opportunity in Coral Gables, close to Miracle Mile. Newer construction from 2008. 2 bedroom/ 2 bath unit 1200 square feet with over sized outside terrace adding 800 square feet of exterior space to unit. For more information view accompanying listing here: http://bit.ly/55MerrickWy506.
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