The city of Canton is expanding the Community Reinvestment Area Program to now include the whole city. A Community Reinvestment Area is an area of land in which a property owner can receive tax incentives for investing in real property improvements. The CRA provides temporary tax abatement of increased real […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
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If you are looking for a loan program that will help you cover your down payment and closing costs on your real estate purchase, you’re in luck! There’s a grant from an organization funded by the state of Ohio that can do just that. OHFA Down Payment Assistance allows homebuyers […]
As of 3/11/19 mortgage interest rates did tick up a little recently, but are still low (slightly under 4.5%) compared to December’s high (almost 5%) (see chart below). The important thing to note is that the market did react negatively to the rising interest rates in the last quarter of […]
As 2019 President for Stark County Association of Realtors, the staff and I write articles for the newspaper section of the Canton Repository every Friday for this year. If you’re a subscriber to the Rep, be sure to check out my monthly market updates. Here’s February’s update: As our first […]