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October 13, 2011

Update: What A Billionaire Actually Bought In New Hampshire

Yesterday I forwarded along an interesting piece of info from Forbes about how billionaire John Malone is now the largest landowner in the US. That’s thanks to a million acre purchase covering parts of New Hampshire and Maine. So I wanted to know, where is this land? And how much of it was actually in […]

October 12, 2011

New Hampshire Purchase Launches Businessman To Top Land Baron Status

Here’s an interesting bit of post-Columbus Day news, courtesy of Forbes. John Malone, the billionaire behind the Liberty Media empire, just bought a million acres of land in New Hampshire and Maine. As reporter Daniel Fisher writes, “Earlier this year Malone passed fellow media mogul Ted Turner to become America’s Biggest Landowner with 2.2 million […]

September 23, 2011

New Hampshire’s Housing Market Not So Rosy

The New Hampshire Association of Realtors came out with numbers today comparing housing sales from this past August to August of 2010 and found an increase of 14 percent. The group also reported that housing prices dropped two percent during the same time. But these numbers don’t necessarily give the full picture of New Hampshire’s […]

September 16, 2011

What You Need To Know About The Vacation Home Market: A Realtor’s Perspective

StateImpact has been on the road this week, as part of our month-long series on the state’s vacation home economy. We headed to the mother of all New Hampshire tourism communities: the town of Moultonborough, along Lake Winnipesaukee. You may remember from our previous coverage that 61 percent of the homes in the area are […]

September 8, 2011

Vacation Communities And The Rest Of New Hampshire: How Their Tax Rates Compare

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.

A Steep Drop In NH Home Foreclosures

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.

August 26, 2011

Vacation Homes in New Hampshire: The Who, The What and The Where

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.

August 17, 2011

Seven Essential Questions—And Answers— For The Man Known As New Hampshire’s Business Thief

With the imminent closure of the Balsams Grand Resort in Dixville Notch, the issue of economic development in the North Country is once again on the state’s radar screen. The pulp mill industry is all but dead, along with a proposed large-scale biofuel plant. These complications mean that when the Balsams shutters next month, the […]

August 15, 2011

Homebuilder Confidence Remains Lackluster

More of the same…for two years running now. That’s the upshot of a story by AP writer Derek Kravitz analyzing the latest numbers from the National Association of Homebuilders. “The National Association of Home Builders said Monday that its index of builder sentiment in August was unchanged at 15. The index has been below 20 for […]

August 12, 2011

How Stock Market Jitters, Treasury Bonds, And Fed Interest Rates Affect The State’s Economy

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, with financial tremors continuing to shake-up the jagged economic landscape. National GDP barely went up, Congress made an 11th hour deal to raise the debt ceiling, S&P downgraded the US credit rating anyway, and the Federal Reserve decided to hold interest rates steady—at virtually nothing—for the next two […]