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Property taxes

It’s not just home prices and mortgage rates. Insurance and property taxes are higher these days, too.

by Samantha Fields
Feb 10, 2025
Home insurance premiums are 52% higher than they were in 2020, and the average homeowner is now putting about a third of their monthly payment to taxes and insurance.
Homeowners are putting more of their monthly payments into property taxes and insurance premiums, said a report.
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Adventures in Housing

Amid rising property taxes, this homeowner turned to Airbnb

by Sofia Terenzio
Dec 10, 2024
Charlotte Kreutz listed a private room in her home on Airbnb. Almost immediately, she started getting bookings.
"Without the Airbnb covering our property taxes, we would probably have to move," said Charlotte Kreutz, a homeowner in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Elections 2020

California voters to decide measure that could spur home sales

by Amy Scott
Nov 4, 2020
Proposition 19 would remove a disincentive to sell property. But a decline in moving is squeezing the housing supply all over the country.
Californians cast their votes inside the historic Hollywood Pantages Theatre on Nov. 3 in Los Angeles.
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Tax Bill 2017

You must have an assessment if you want to pay your 2018 taxes early, says IRS

by Kimberly Adams and Jana Kasperkevic
Dec 28, 2017
Most of the people affected are high income earners.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, DC.
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The race is on to prepay some 2018 taxes

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Dec 27, 2017
Homeowners in states with the highest property taxes especially are looking ahead.
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Tax Bill 2017

Thousands pay their 2018 taxes early in hopes of using eliminated deductions

by Associated Press
Dec 27, 2017
Long lines form at tax offices as homeowners try to hack the tax reform bill.
Internal Revenue Service's headquarters in Washington, D.C. The IRS hasn’t yet said how it would handle 2018 prepayments.
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Obamacare repeal could hike property taxes

by Marielle Segarra
Jan 20, 2017
When uninsured people get sick and can’t pay out of pocket, they often go to public hospitals. And the bills they can’t pay get passed down to residents in the form of property taxes. The Affordable Care Act helped some counties lower those taxes by giving states billions of dollars to expand Medicaid. With a […]
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Chicago faces historic tax hike to fund massive debt

by Nova Safo
Sep 23, 2015
The proposed $544 million property tax hike would pay for pension shortfalls.
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