Coastal property transfers have become increasingly difficult in recent years because insurance carriers have been cutting back on the number and quality of
coastal homeowners policies, the association says.
Local artist Jennifer Odem fashions elegant sculptures through the simple gesture of stacking furniture into Brancusi - like towers on the banks of the river,
mimicking coastal homeowners» habit of placing treasured possessions atop their houses» highest reaches when flooding occurs.
New York
offered coastal homeowners in certain areas a buyout program to incentivize moving away from the coast and turning that land into greenspace intended to provide protection from future storms.
He's actively trying to
convince coastal homeowners that the current trend in sea level rise is an illusion or, at best, a minor natural fluctuation.
TRENTON — A state task force would recommend ways to ease the lack of affordable property insurance for
coastal homeowners under a legislative proposal endorsed by the New Jersey Association of REALTORS ®.
Among other things, the task force would consider the desirability of requiring insurers to
write coastal homeowners policies.
MIAMI — Sharp increases in federal flood insurance rates are
distressing coastal homeowners from Hawaii to New England and are starting to hurt property values and housing sales in areas just beginning to recover from the recession, according to residents and legislators.
Given these considerations, we would argue that
coastal homeowners, insurers, the re-insurance industry, and every other potential stakeholder in this debate would be wise not to take false comfort from the notion (which the headlines resulting from this paper will inevitably feed) that climate change poses no future Atlantic hurricane threat.