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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

My property tax statements say that my house here, and property elsewhere, 
have indeed increased in value (I don't know how to use colons and paranthese 
to draw rolling eyes). 

 Real estate is a bloodbath, except with the revenue collectors.  As the 
gov't is needed more and more to "protect" and provide for us , more 
silliness will be used to raise more revenue.  ...bobford


--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Median home prices rose 16 percent last year
> To: "Homestead" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 5:50 PM
> Median Home Values Rose 16 Percent, Survey Shows
> By SAM ROBERTS
> Published: October 6, 2008
> The median home value in the United States rose to more
> than $191,000  
> last year as the number of houses and apartments valued at
> more than  
> $300,000 soared more than 20 percent, compared with 2005,
> according to  
> new Census Bureau data.
> 
> But the data does not account for plummeting prices since
> the subprime  
> lending and credit crises struck.
> 
> The data is from the 2007 American Housing Survey,
> conducted by the  
> bureau for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
> It counted  
> 128.2 million houses, apartments, and mobile, vacation and
> vacant  
> homes, compared with 124.4 in 2005. In 2007, 110.7 million
> residences  
> were reported to be occupied.
> 
> The survey found that the median home value rose about 16
> percent  
> between 2005 and 2007, from $165,344 in 2005, a slightly
> smaller gain  
> than the two-year increase from $140,201 in 2003.
> 
> Among the more than 75 million homes occupied by their
> owners, one in  
> three had no mortgage.
> 
> Median monthly housing costs in 2007 were $927 for owners
> and $755 for  
> renters.
> 
> The 600-page survey details wide disparities in rates of
> home  
> ownership, physical condition of dwellings, satisfaction
> with  
> neighborhoods and dozens of other variables on the basis of
> race,  
> ethnicity, income and where people live.
> 
> Among other findings: more homes have a usable fireplace
> than a  
> working carbon monoxide detector and more have a garage
> than a  
> dishwasher.
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/us/07housing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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