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6 of the Best Retirement Communities in Florida

HomeLight

Some communities have a land-lease structure in which you purchase the house, but lease the home site. This arrangement may eliminate or lower property taxes, but you’ll incur monthly bills for the property lease, water, sewer, trash removal, and amenities. What is included in your monthly payment?

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Opinion: It’s time for bi-partisanship on affordable manufactured housing homeownership

Housing Wire

Last year was challenging for housing and mortgage markets. For the first time in many years, we experienced falling home prices, in part due to skyrocketing mortgage rates which almost doubled from around 3.5% One of the prime areas of opportunity is affordable manufactured housing homeownership. a year ago to nearly 7% today.