Posted on 05/28/2023 9:09:31 AM PDT by Jacquerie
In the face of a slowing housing market across the United States, Florida’s housing sector remains buoyant, attracting significant attention from potential buyers and investors. This resilience is, in part, due to the considerable growth in both population and businesses in the state.
New data shows a national decline in the prices of existing-home sales, with a sharp annual drop of 1.7 percent in April. Some regions, like Seattle, Austin, and Silicon Valley, have seen a decline in home prices of about 12 percent in the past year. But Florida is bucking the gloomy national trend, with rising prices, even though high interest rates are forcing buyers out of the market, slowing sales.
Between 2020 and 2022, Florida’s population surged by nearly one million people, with growth rates five times that of the rest of the nation. Much of this surge is due to the influx of white-collar professionals opting to work remotely from beach-side locations. But there are also whole businesses, including Citadel, Windstar Cruises, JP Morgan, ARK Invest, and InnovaCare Health, among many others, that have expanded or moved their operations or headquarters to Florida, significantly contributing to a gravity-defying real estate market.
It’s a feather in the cap of the nation’s newest presidential candidate, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was among the first to buck the national lockdown and reopen Florida for business just months into the pandemic. It was a huge political gamble, but one that paid off for him politically, because it has quite clearly paid off for Florida economically.
This continuous growth in population and economic activity has fostered a thriving housing market and home prices that have remained resilient, particularly in cities like Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Pensacola, Naples, Tallahassee, and Sebastian, where home prices rose between February and March.
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So states that don’t collect taxes are a draw... Got it.
We should also consider that Baby Boomers are retiring in huge numbers, freed from their previous need to live where they word, and the siren song of warm FL weather all combine to move them in the direction of FL.
It is a demographic bomb in addition to other issues.
Back in 2020, as COVID-19 ravaged the country, DeSantis was reticent about implementing a statewide lockdown but caved after a call with Trump and a “grave reckoning” about the risks of mass deaths if such an order was not imposed, the New York Times reported.
Now Trump is critcizing DeSantis for his lockdown policies even though Trump is the one who pushed DeSantis into locking down.
DeSantis largely resisted the covid nazis.
By the summer of 2020 we could recognize tourists on sight; they wore masks.
Out of state friends, one in particular who got his news from SeeBS, thought Floridians were dropping dead in the streets.
We love our gov.
He get s no credit for that other than not screwing up what was already in place, period.
That's right! Only Trump gets credit for his achievements and excuses for his failures! Everyone else gets no credit whatsoever!
Cultist thinking on display, folks!
It isn’t DeSantis’s campaign for president: the forces driving Florida’s real estate resilience’s campaign doing a thing about it it no taxes like Texas the state had the before he was in office the move has been going on for a long time like in other states.
DeSantis pimping F-
Prove that claim.
The truth is Trump himself did not lock down anything. He merely gave his blessing if states decided to lock down their states.
Did he also call Arkansas, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming, 8 states that never locked down their state?
Here is how Florida property taxes rip off incoming suckers>>>
You just bought a house in Fl for $400,000
You next-door neighbor owns an identical house.
But he bought it in 2010 for $200,000
You will be paying almost double his property taxes
Because his tax rate is based on what he paid 14 years ago during a recession PLUS the yearly rise in rates (Florida law) that is capped at 2%.
Newbie you will also see your property taxes rise yearly, though capped at 2% yearly.
Multiple sources show Trump called DeSantis in April 2020 after DeSantis was reluctant to shut down.
I never said Trump ordered lockdowns, he urged them publicly, citing Fauci.
Then Trump signed the CARES Act, the largest spending bill in US history ($2 trillion) that funded the lockdowns and closing of small business, resulting in the start of the inflation we still have today.
How is that ripping off anyone? California does something similar. The law is there to protect people who have owned their homes for a long time from losing them to rising property taxes due to inflation of property values. You’d rather have seniors on a fixed income lose their homes because they can no longer afford to pay taxes on a home that they paid $200k for but is now worth $600k?
“Here is how Florida property taxes rip off incoming suckers>>>”
Still, they insist on coming to Florida.
Do you know why they are coming and not staying in the states they formerly called home?
It gets even better!
Move from your FL homesteaded property and homestead at another FL location, you can apply much of your previous real estate tax reduction to your new property.
In a neighborhood of $600+ grand homes, we pay $750.
FL did a great job of protecting its long-term citizens from onerous real estate taxes.
Depends if you are an old long-term citizen or a new long-term citizen.
Old, you are being subsidized by money taken from your new neighbors.
New, you are paying for your neighbors costs.
It is a form of theft.
He's not a politician, he knew players in government, but not intimately. He got no help in organizing a transition team because the political operatives didn't want to face ostracism by the GOPe machine. He was under attack from the moment he walked down the escalator to toss his hat into the ring. Which is something he didn't have to do, and had nothing to gain from it. Nor did he gain from it. In fact, he didn't even draw his salary, and has sacrificed a lot to try and help this nation. He was the only president in modern times to lose money while in office.
Despite all of that he still was moving this country in the right direction.
Then they purposely released a bioweapon upon the citizens of the world, it was no accident at all. The bioweapon was developed to depopulate the world of people, and has been in the works for several decades. Learn More. It was no accidental release. They were desperate to remove Trump, who was not supposed to win. They couldn't allow him a 2nd term for he presented a real threat to their plans. The "plandemic" was carefully planned . It was used to replace the voting guidelines of states to make it easier to implement whole sale use of mail-in ballots etc. They stole the election from Trump, and any who denies this are either stupid or they are being very deceitful. Our government also made the Jan. 6th Stop the Steal rally into the sh!t show it turned into.
Those falsehoods & attacks are done by people like you. I have nothing but disdain for people like you. You were probably a Never-Trump person back in the day, and suffered TDS along with others when he was elected.
But I will continue to stand with people who want to save this country, as Donald John Trump does, and will fight back against people like you. For those people do not want what is best for this nation. They are in it for themselves to enrich themselves in whatever manner they can achieve that self enrichment. Ron DeSantis is one of those people. You two are a perfect match for each other, and trust me that is not a flattering statement.
DeSantis basically lied to the citizens of Florida. He only ran to keep that position. Then he convinced the legislature that he was worthy for them to change the state's law about giving that position up if he chose to run for a higher office. Every move he has made while in office has been to propel him onto the presidential stage, period. I have zero respect for him, because what he is doing is all to further himself. He doesn't care about this nation, just like those who are supporting him in this presidential run.
He is deceptive, and I will not support deceptive people.
For example, he is talking about the IRS and how if he were elected he would do something about them. Yet, he wanted to raise taxes for citizens & also wanted to cut Social Security benefits, while increasing the age to begin collecting Social Security, because it will never affect him personally. He will get a guaranteed 400,000, or more, presidential pay per year for a lifetime at a minimum.
If loyalty to someone who tries to help this nation is being a member of a cult, then I am guilty as charged. If I had a reason to not remain loyal I wouldn't remain loyal, but all I've seen are vicious attacks & falsehoods said about him.
He's not a perfect man, but then I've never met a perfect man or woman. I've met some that come close.
But he is a fighter, and he never gives up, and that is why I will continue to support him, even though he has made mistakes. He also learns from his mistakes. I expect an even better success rate than he delivered in his first term, which wasn't perfect, but it actually far exceeded my expectations.
Have a blessed day.
Well, if there are so many provide them. Don't tell me, show me. He didn't have to take Trump's advice., but he did. I have no problem with that, but now he is trying to present a different narrative. Like I said he is a deceptive person. As a result of him exposing himself as a deceptive person, I could never possibly ever support hm.
More & more people will awaken o who he really is, at least I hope so.
One thing you can count on, is that I will be trying to awaken the people.
That is not true. DeSantis said he regrets the lockdowns and wishes he opened up earlier.
DeSantis blamed Fauci, not Trump.
But everyone blames him. He allowed states to do so. Red states, for the most part, did not continue the loc downs for long periods of time, but blue states did so purposely.
But DeSantis has said that he said the ad about supporting the wall was nothing more than in jest.
He is a dishonest deceptive person. Now I could care less if you want to support him. Trump will bury him anyway, because the loyalty cult is big. In the process it will be harmful for this nation though, for I fear if will bring division. That is what we must move away from. We must untie as a force in solidarity to fight the evil that has enveloped this nation and return her to greatness that once again provides a beacon for the world. You are not going to achieve that by following the GOPe selected candidate whom they will promise will be like Trump but not divisive like Trump, which is just not true at all. He will be somebody they can control. That's why they hate Trump. They couldn't control him and make him into their stooge.
But as a lifelong Republican, I have come to realize that the GOPe doesn't care about their base. They are just and ends to a means that they must placate to get their support.
They have shown who they really are by McCarthy caving yet again on the debt ceiling issue. This will allow Biden to throw this nation into further financial ruination. They helped the Democrats in the 2020 & the 2022 elections to defeat Trump. That's why I no longer will give them my financial support. I certainly won't support the stooge they have chosen.
I have never heard of such a tax deal. If only I had a time machine, I would have bought a Florida shack for $50,000. And been super grandfathered in, like you. Moving up the property ladder.
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