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Here are the states with the most vacant houses
The Hill ^ | 08/10/2023 | Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech |

Posted on 08/10/2023 8:31:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Maine has the most vacant housing out of all 50 states, according to new research from real estate website LAHomes.

The Pine Tree State had an average home vacancy rate of 23.9 between 2011 and 2021, the research shows.

The state’s home vacancy rate peaked at 23.3 percent in 2013 and fell to its lowest—22.5 percent—in 2020.

Alaska and Vermont have the second and third-highest vacant home rates, respectively.

The Last Frontier state has an average home vacancy rate of 21.4 percent during that same time, LAHomes also found.

Home vacancy rates reached their highest in Alaska in 2012 and 2013 at 23.3 percent in both years and fell to their lowest in 2021 to 17.9 percent.

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To: PIF

NH is #8 on the list. I can tell you from personal experience that they are not talking about abandoned homes. Any home around here that is not being live in is quickly either rebuilt or torn down and a new structure is built in its place.

A building lot around south central NH is worth $150K. They go up exponentially as you get closer to the ocean.


21 posted on 08/10/2023 9:00:43 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: dfwgator

My SIL and BIL live there year round, but the funny thing is they go on vacation in the summer months, when it’s supposedly the nicest.


22 posted on 08/10/2023 9:01:34 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: dfwgator; ChicagoConservative27

These are the 15 states with the cheapest average home prices.

https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/states-with-lowest-home-prices/

Neither Vermont nor Maine are on the list.


23 posted on 08/10/2023 9:03:55 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was thinking of moving to NH.
Maybe I’ll check out Vermont.


24 posted on 08/10/2023 9:04:28 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Maine has the most vacant housing out of all 50 states, according to new research from real estate website LAHomes.

Oh, a California real estate company did the research? It must be sound. /s

25 posted on 08/10/2023 9:06:47 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Is this counted as a vacant "home"? Surely not. We have lots of those around here. I have burned and buried one with two to go. Once the roof leaks they are gone for good.

"

Why didn't they give the full list?

26 posted on 08/10/2023 9:06:51 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Sequoyah101
Once the roof leaks they are gone for good.

Moisture the root of all structural evil....

27 posted on 08/10/2023 9:10:15 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ah, just the places to ship all those undocumented immigrants. We need more squatters breaking into and taking up residence in other people’s unused homes. All the more enlightened countries have that solution to the housing problem.


28 posted on 08/10/2023 9:15:59 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (If Black Lives Matter, explain Chicago. )
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To: AuntB

St. Louis, MO has hundreds, maybe thousands of vacant homes. Driving along I-70 you’ll see whole neighborhoods of abandoned homes, factories, churches, etc. When you drop 500,000 in population in 50 years...

Are they livable? Safe? Some place you’d want to live? Not so much.


29 posted on 08/10/2023 9:17:17 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are second/vacation homes unoccupied at the time of counting counted as vacant? That might skew Maine’s numbers.


30 posted on 08/10/2023 9:17:21 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: nascarnation

I refurbished one. 100 y/o. Worth it due to location.

I’m surprised Texas and Fla. are not low vacancy with all the people moving there.

Hawaii at 16%. That’s high. Perhaps the leftist government do what they did in Dr. Zhivago. Native Hawaiians only.


31 posted on 08/10/2023 9:20:49 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vacancy rates mean nothing. Try finding a place to rent in Alaska. It’s almost impossible and landlords are very picky. I see it all the time. All those vacant homes must be second homes in trendy areas, because they’re certainly not on the rental market.


32 posted on 08/10/2023 9:20:59 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: dfwgator

I think so. The thing about Vt is as soon as the home is owned by an out of state resident, the taxes shoot up.

My parents owned a home there. They got a discount on their real estate taxes so they were about $4,500 a year. As soon as my mom moved back to MA (for a nursing home)…the taxes literally went up 350%. We could not afford to keep it.

It’s was scary how they forced us out of this home that had been in our family since 1867. It recently sold for almost twice what we got for it. The taxes are crazy high now.


33 posted on 08/10/2023 9:26:40 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I live in rural N. Central Arkansas close to the Missouri state line and forty minutes from Branson. There are few homes for rent. I built a log cabin at the expense of around $300K and it appraised at $150K for taxes. I’m not complaining. The area also is demographically acceptable.


34 posted on 08/10/2023 9:36:49 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Alaska, Maine, and Vermont.

So now we know where to send the migrants.

35 posted on 08/10/2023 9:39:39 AM PDT by x
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To: Sequoyah101

Some of these homes, like the one featured in post #26, are just waiting for Tyler Durden to stop by.


36 posted on 08/10/2023 9:39:52 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Here are the states with the most vacant houses The Hill ^ | 08/10/2023 | Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech |

Don't tell me Ben got married again?

37 posted on 08/10/2023 9:40:48 AM PDT by x
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly what I thought—why would they suddenly be advertising this info? Or even looking into it?


38 posted on 08/10/2023 9:41:49 AM PDT by riri (What’re y’all talking bout? I just got a new set of Michelins for the house!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

2020 data. Utterly meaningless.


39 posted on 08/10/2023 9:42:02 AM PDT by dangus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

FRED (federal reserve of st louis, which keeps the government’s economic data in a single database) tells a drastically different story, one that’s far more believable, although perhaps TOO low. They show the vacancy rate peaked nationally at 2.8% in 2007, and is presently 0.8%.


40 posted on 08/10/2023 9:45:40 AM PDT by dangus
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