Thought Leadership

With its latest webinar, CCP focuses on how state laws and policies affect local attempts to revitalize problem properties. With presentations by Alan Mallach – Senior Fellow, Center for Community Progress and Alison Goebel –READ MORE

HOA with more than $1 million dollars on hand in checking accounts, CDs, saving accounts and cash, and total assets at more than $2.2 million dollars! That is what one media outlet reported on recently.READ MORE

Today, the White House issued a press release announcing Housing Supply Action Plan designed to ease the burden of housing costs over time, by boosting the supply of quality housing in every community. The planREAD MORE

Erie County (NY) Clerk Mickey Kearns has been taking on so-called “zombie” properties for years, but now he’s got a new target to shame besides lenders: Erie County itself. Kearns states, many municipalities in theREAD MORE

One comment we at MuniReg frequently receive is “our community is too small for a VPRO”. Well one community in Nebraska (Population in 2019: 445) disagrees. For more information, please click here.     

Affordable housing continues to be a focal point of local governments. Now this issue is being taken up in two state legislatures in new and unique approaches. In Rhode Island, local tax-sale investors have askedREAD MORE

Nelson added. “… It’s a nightmare getting to who actually owns the home and who actually needs to be talked to.” This quote was taken from a recent article in Magnolia, Arkansas. This demonstrates, theREAD MORE

“But no one has tried to buy and sell homes at the scale of Cincinnati, which is “a game-changer for the housing market,” reporter Konrad Putzier said on a recent Wall Street Journal podcast about the acquisition.READ MORE

Heritage value is additional worth added to the market price of a property when it’s been in the same family for more 50 years. It could add 50 percent of the market value to theREAD MORE