Sentences with phrase «vacant homes by»

Homes staged with live - in Home Managers typically out - perform vacant homes by large margins.

Not exact matches

Nearly a third of bank - owned homes are sitting vacant, while nearly half are still occupied by previous owners, who are now living there mortgage - free.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

Along with the school, properties under consideration include the Southminster Presbyterian Church, the Church of God, an office building, a theater, five acres of vacant land owned by Central DuPage Hospital and seven homes.

This funding supports legally designated Land Banks, formed under the New York State Land Bank Act of 2011, to protect homeowners and neighborhoods across the state by acquiring vacant, blighted homes and transforming them into community assets.

In the East New York and Brownsville cluster, a team led by Infinite Horizons and FG - PH Corporation will construct 16 homes with 33 units on 15 vacant lots.

It doesn't focus on a dramatic increase in the plaza's current 17 - acre footprint, although it could include the 2.4 - acre Episcopal Home site controlled by the state and three vacant parcels of land along Busti Avenue.

The language specifically states that the rule change is for homes that have been certified vacant by the municipalities.

The City of Niagara Falls, which in August posted mocking signs in front of five zombie homes owned by Citizens Bank, has filed a State Supreme Court lawsuit demanding that the bank either sell the vacant houses or repair building code violations found there.

By Sean Ryan A Milwaukee law forcing property owners to renovate or demolish foreclosed homes is putting muscle behind a growing disgust with vacant properties.

Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino says the new law addresses quality of life concerns caused by vacant homes.

There is a vacant space at the Albany County Nursing Home in the town of Colonie, but under a plan outlined last night by the county executive, that space could be used by the Albany Medical Center.

On Thursday, the Legislature unanimously adopted a request to the state that would enable local leaders to shorten the foreclosure timetable for vacant and neglected homes owned by banks.

The vacant land restoration strategy tested in this study was specifically chosen to improve local neighborhood conditions, block - by - block, and encourage residents to stay in their home neighborhoods.

Showtime Boxing: Dejan Zlaticanin makes easy work of Franklin Mamani and brings his home country of Montenegro its first boxing world champion by winning the vacant WBC Lightweight World Championship.

With nowhere to go and no one to turn to, Gloria avoids destitution by retreating to her childhood home, a rural abode now vacant since her parents have left for another clime.

In what's left of their neighbourhood, Billy (Christina Hendricks) lives in her family home with her sons: a toddler and a teen named Bones (Iain De Caestecker), who helps support the household by scavenging for copper in the vacant buildings nearby.

Interest by a French - immersion charter school in buying the long - vacant Priestley school site in west - Carrollton has galvanized a group called the «P - Town Project» into seeking a Healing Center - style home for fresh food and social services there instead.

For instance, assuming there were fires on the premises of two homes — an occupied home and a vacant home — the fire taking place at the former would, in theory, result in lesser damage since it would likely be reported first by its inhabitants and would be put out more quickly.

According to Schwarz» stagedhome.com statistics, home staging can help reduce a property's listing time on the market by 30 to 50 per cent and could deliver a price that is six to 20 per cent more than a vacant home or a home that is not properly staged.

For example, if you have a neighbor or a friend who agrees to stop by your home every few days to check on your property, your insurance company may agree that your home is not unoccupied or vacant.

TORONTO — Ontario plans to help cool a hot housing market by bringing in a 15 - per - cent foreign buyer tax, expanding rent control, allowing Toronto to impose a tax on vacant homes and using surplus lands for affordable housing.

Furthermore, a secondary market will enable mobile home manufacturers to build / ship more homes while helping community owners (like Park Street Partners) fill vacant pads with homes that can be purchased and financed by new tenants.

Over the past year, approximately 60 % of the 83,000 transactions handled by BPG involved vacant properties - resulting in BPG establishing specific protocols that exceed the normal standards of practice used by most home inspectors.

Creating comparable sales by combining vacant land sales with the contract purchase price of the home is prohibited.

Ashley Shaw, 28, is one of three caretakers of a colony in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, whose home is in a vacant lot enclosed by a plywood fence.

Long a hodge - podge of rental dwellings, weekend cottages and vacant lots, it was transformed by successive California real estate booms into a fashionable but eclectic mix of newer large homes and older modest beach cottages, now mostly owner - occupied.

A year after taking root in a vacant flower shop on West 28th Street in New York City, Planthouse has become a home to daring exhibitions by emerging artists as well as a supportive venue for prints.

Hoteling, a concept those in the accounting and consulting industries are long familiar with, is being embraced by firms that have realized many offices sit vacant during the day when attorneys are at client meetings, depositions, in court, working from home, or on vacation.

Vacant homes are considered by the insurance company only under certain situations.

If your vacant home is destroyed by a covered loss (a total loss situation), you receive the full amount of insurance you purchased on your home, minus any applicable deductible.

Vacant Home insurance issued by an insurer in the Foremost Insurance Group, 5600 Beech Tree Lane, Caledonia, MI 49316.

Unoccupied or vacant (no furnishings) homes are considered a higher risk by insurers because no one lives on site to maintain and protect the property.

If you only use your condo once or twice a year as a vacation home, for example, you can save money on your policy by purchasing vacant condo coverage.

But these secondary homes are prone to greater risks, since it's likely they'll be vacant often or rented out by guests.

Some of the more interesting types of smart home devices are thermostats, which can help save energy by optimizing scheduling, automatically sensing when the home is occupied or vacant, and more.

All MLS - listed homes and vacant lots on the Sunshine Coast — an area in B.C. 40 minutes by ferry from West Vancouver — are displayed on the maps with rare exceptions, says Little.

Just 3.1 percent of single - family homes not occupied by owners are currently vacant, according to the latest data from the U.S. Post Office, which keeps data on homes where mail is not being picked up or forwarded.

For example, in Iowa's 4th District, represented by Rep. Steve King (R), there are 344,251 housing units, the home ownership rate is 72.4 percent, 10.7 percent of the housing stock is vacant, the median home value is $ 102,400, and the median monthly housing cost for homes with mortgages is $ 1,004.

In 2004, St. Joseph was given a vacant lot by the South Tahoe Redevelopment Agency (STRA) on which to build and sell the trust's first owner - occupied home.

«The administrative challenges of running this program, including the approach for identifying vacant homes (e.g. a mandatory system, a self - declaration by owners, and / or a complaints - based model) are overwhelming.

«We work together to help raise the values in a neighborhood by getting vacant homes off the market.»

In June The Napa Valley (Calif.) Register reported that a practitioner was assaulted in a vacant home but managed to drive her attacker away by fighting back.

Realtors have commented to me on numerous occasions that after securing a vacant home and incurring costs for doing so, they are not being compensated by the asset management firm, lender or contracting party.

Planting trees and tidying up vacant lots can add significant premiums to the prices of nearby homes, suggests research conducted in the Philadelphia area by the real estate department at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School.

With foreign investors moving into the market, many vacant homes where the owner has left the country can be inhabited by squatters or homeless individuals.

Thousands of abandoned homes plague the city, but Detroit's mayor is setting out to remove «eyesores» by tearing down thousands of these vacant structures.

He built an intricate database of people who owned homes or vacant lots there and then categorized properties by waterfront, lake view, and golf course.

The Buyers purchased a vacant lot and retained a builder («Builder») allegedly recommended by the Salesperson to build a home on the property.

Petruno says vacant homes can be spiritually «reclaimed by the land» and then ghosts can freely take up residence.