What if yields on REITs and yields on owner-occupied houses are about the same--say, 7% ?
Your street may not be a great owner-occupied market but it might be a great rental area.
The Crofting Commission has put a halt to all decrofting applications on owner-occupied crofts following legal advice.
However, very little new construction has been completed, and what has been built is almost all owner-occupied or build-to-suit.
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.
During the 1980s the proportion of owner-occupied housing in Putney rose by a fifth, twice the national average increase.
Note that for an owner-occupied home, the "income" earned from the building--the net rent you don't have to pay--is exempt from tax.
According to a Census Bureau survey published in 2005, the number of million-dollar, owner-occupied homes in this country has nearly doubled since 2000.
Later phases of the project will likely include commercial offices, retail buildings and both rental and owner-occupied housing, the developer and public officials said.
Between falling home prices, high unemployment rates and the millions of foreclosures underway, Americans not so surprisingly stopped making improvements on their owner-occupied properties post-2007.
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People under 44 own, again, just 15% of owner-occupied housing.
There are also other consumption of goods and services that are produced for own use (agricultural produce of personal subsidiary plots, imputed services of owner-occupied dwellings), and received as labour remuneration.
Or imputed rent on the value of owner-occupied homes?
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An owner-occupied condo's rental value, however, is entirely tax-free.
After taking office in 1993, President Clinton virtually eliminated the capital gains tax from the sale of owner-occupied homes and cut government spending as a share of GDP by the largest amount ever.
Because the asset price method can lead to inappropriate results for goods that are purchased largely for investment reasons, the CPI implemented the rental equivalence approach to measuring price change for owner-occupied housing.
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Only owner-occupied homes can participate--speculators need not apply.
While the big firms are likely lining their own pockets by doing so, Shiller says they are also doing a service by converting a chunk of the existing housing stock from (potentially underwater) owner-occupied to rental units.
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The inventory is holding down real estate prices in many areas of the country and in turn could hold down property values for the long term because the neighborhoods are changing from a community of owner-occupied homes to rentals.
The home improvement market, which includes maintenance and improvement spending of both rentals and owner-occupied units, promises to rise at an inflation-adjusted rate of 3.5% per year in the coming years, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
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To date, most of those trained in solar have been commuting out of L.A. to the suburbs and single-owner occupied buildings have been addressed a lot faster by the industry than blocks of apartments and rental homes.
The collection was assembled by owner Billy Bickford, a third-generation Guatemalan otherwise occupied with running the family businesses in construction, real estate, and finance.
The London Borough of Camden has found that half of all recently-bought properties in its area are no longer occupied by the owner.
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