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This week, we look into a key question for year-round New Hampshire residents: Do high concentrations of high-value vacation homes drive up local property tax rates? Read on for an interactive map that shows how your county compares with the rest of the state.
The big news in real estate this week is the state’s sharply declining foreclosure rate. As NHPR’s Jon Greenberg reports, The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority counted 238 homes that went into foreclosure in July. That’s about a 30 percent drop from June of 2011 and from July of last year.
Four days ago, StateImpact, along with other New Hampshire media outlets, was questioning how many tourists–and how much tourism money–the state would bring in over the Labor Day weekend. After all, visitors and residents alike have been confused about the status some of New Hampshire’s remoter roads that are key to the tourism industry. Even […]
As New Hampshire gears up for one of its biggest tourism weekends of the year, the state’s Division of Travel and Tourism is pushing one simple, post-Irene slogan: “New Hampshire is Open for Business.” But is it really?
If you were in the Northeast last week, you probably saw the retail aftermath of a freak hurricane scare: Big box store shelves denuded of cheap flashlights and, more importantly, their constant companions, those hulking, hard-to-store, near-obsolete D batteries. People who didn’t even remember where their flashlights were suddenly started scouring New England for the […]
The cleanup process following Tropical Storm Irene continues across New Hampshire. Here’s a snapshot of what’s going on across the state: NHPR’s Dan Gorenstein reports most of the state’s electric companies have turned the lights back on, but… “The state’s largest utility, PSNH still has tens of thousands without any service. …Company spokesperson Mike Skelton […]
If you’ve got five minutes to burn, check out StateImpact’s town-by-town interactive map. Just find your town, click on it, and see how many vacation homes are there, and what percentage of the housing stock they make up. If you’ve got 10 minutes, you can get the context behind the numbers with our written analysis. And if you’ve got an hour or more, the map will keep you very, very entertained. Trust us.
This month, State Impact is digging into New Hampshire’s tourism economy, and this piece by Charles Pierce of the Boston Globe caught our eye. Back in 2003, New Hampshire’s leading symbol–the Old Man of the Mountain, finally collapsed. “Now, though, through…[the] Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund, and through the work of a sculptor […]
The die-off of the North Country’s paper mill industry has left economic scars on the North Country. But as NHPR’s Amy Quinton recently reported, it’s also left environmental scars. And we’re only now learning the shape of them, “A toxic waste site in Berlin, New Hampshire continues to leak mercury into the Androscoggin River… The […]
Recently, State Impact reported on how the S&P downgrade and other economic convulsions have affected, or could affect, the New Hampshire economy. And speaking of S&P, the Associated Press reports: “The president of Standard & Poor’s [Deven Sharma] is stepping down, an announcement coming only weeks after the rating agency’s unprecedented move to strip the […]
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