CoreLogic: OKC home prices tick up a tad in March
One percent here, 2 percent there, and pretty soon you’re talking real appreciation.
Read all about it from CoreLogic.
(Apologies to the memory of the late U.S. Rep./Sen. Everett Dirksen.)
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‘Help, Hope, Housing’ — the 2011 annual report of the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency
These are good peeps. Check out the multimedia report here.
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HUD awards $11.1 million to 14 American Indian tribes for housing development in Oklahoma
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $11,139,275 to 14 tribal communities in Oklahoma to improve housing conditions, promote community development and to spur local economies with construction projects and jobs.
The competitive grants awarded are part of HUD’s Indian Community Development Block Grant Program, which addresses a wide variety of community development and affordable housing activities for low to moderate-income families.
Grants were awarded to the Caddo Nation for a project in Anadarko; the Chickasaw Nation, for a project in Ardmore; the Choctaw Nation, for a project in Pocola; to the Eastern Shawnee Tribe; to the Kaw Nation, for a project in Braman; to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation; to the Ottawa Tribe; to the Pawnee Nation; to the Quapaw Tribe; to the Seminole Nation; to the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe; to the Shawnee Tribe; to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians; and to the Wyandotte Nation.
Read all about it, and get all the project details from HUD.
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Grubb & Ellis-Levy Beffort’s “Anewalt’s Analytics”: Florida, Georgia, tamp down South’s property performance index, but Oklahoma CRE shines on
Read Julie Anewalt’s Analysis of Key Market Data.
Note, she wrote: “Oklahoma’s growing economy and low unemployment rate will continue to drive demand and put upward pressure on rental rates, thereby increasing property values.”
(The NCREIF — National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries.)
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Check out Tulsa’s newly famous Atomic Ranch!
Jennie Cluck’s 1955 ranch on S Erie is featured in this new cool book, Atomic Ranch: Midcentury Interiors, published by Gibbs, Smith. I plan to review the book in my weekly column in The Oklahoman.
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Get yer sausage while it’s hot! Oklahoma Association of Realtors legislative update!
“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.” — Somebody. But not Otto von Bismarck.
Oklahoma Brownfields Conference — it’s not about farmin’ durin’ the Dust Bowl; it’s about reclaiming other environmentally abused land
Check it out. I’m planning on it.
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: ‘Let me tell you how it will be’: Tax notices sent to Joplin, Mo., tornado zone properties
Welcome home, Joplin peeps!
By Susan Redden sredden@joplinglobe.com
The Jasper County assessor’s office last week began sending out notices to the owners of more than 2,200 properties — many in the Joplin tornado zone — alerting them to increases in the value of their properties.
The increases are kicking in as houses are rebuilt and returned to tax rolls after being removed from the rolls following the May 22, 2011, tornado …
Read all about it from The Joplin Globe.
Now, of course the county had to get the properties back on the tax rolls, and of course there were hikes in property values.
But how could this *not* come to mind (YouTube)??
–rm
News: Xceligent Inc. gains new strategic partner
dmg :: information (dmgi) is now partnered with Xceligent, Inc.’s founder and management team as a strategic investor and has completed the purchase of Xceligent stock formerly owned by LoopNet and other investors. The transaction is pursuant to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consent order intended to create a national competitor to the merged CoStar Group and LoopNet entity.
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U.S. housing in one graphic, from John Burns Real Estate Consulting.
And he’s way right: The red parts are getting a disproportionate amount of attention.
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