Schroon Lake
Real Estate
Help is on the way: Adirondack Roots
Newly rebranded housing assistance nonprofit helps homeowners with rehab work. The historic house on Main Street in Westport was all but gone. The once gorgeous front porch was ready to fall in, and water was leaking through ceilings and into the walls. It seemed on a too-familiar path from home to eyesore to zombie home to blighted neighborhood.
Help is on the way: Both Meadow
What is it? Four affordable cape-style homes in the hamlet of Keene. Who are the developers? The Housing Assistance Program of Essex County, along with the Town of Keene and the Keene Housing Task Force. How does it work? The land was sold at a discount to HAPEC by former...
1 Upstate NY place is among top 50 with fastest rising home values in state
A location in Upstate New York is among the top 50 places in the state with the fastest rising home values, according to a recent list from Stacker. Adirondack, located on Schroon Lake in Warren County, saw the value of a typical home grow more than $48,000 in the last year, according to Stacker. That’s an increase of 9.3% and ranks Adirondack 23rd-highest statewide.
Affordable housing complex planned for Ticonderoga
Developer, town in talks for proposed 60-unit apartment building near Walmart. The town of Ticonderoga, which like most Adirondack communities is suffering from a lack of affordable housing, is in talks with Regan Development Corp. for construction of a 60-unit mixed-income apartment complex similar to the MacKenzie Overlook project in Lake Placid.
Region’s housing problems revealed
Comprehensive study digs into roots of Adirondacks’ housing issues, offers solutions. The region’s housing market is negatively affecting more than 20,000 households in a four-county region. That’s according to a comprehensive new study that outlines the multiple barriers that stand between people and a place to call home.
Essex County communities see $1B spike in property values
New and existing home values increased 12% in 2022 in Essex and Hamilton counties. Perhaps illustrative of the parkwide housing costs, property values in Essex County — the eastern heart of the Adirondacks — total nearly $1 billion more today than a year ago. And while the number in itself has little practical bearing, it reinforces an emerging storyline of an Adirondack Park that is becoming more of an exclusive retreat for the wealthy, but also friendlier to an invigorated population able to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle while earning income sitting at their home computer.
Why Lower Hudson Valley house sales prices rose again in 2022 while number of sales fell
Median sales prices of single-family houses pushed upward again in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess in 2022, but the number of sales fell compared to the year before, a new real-estate market report says. The median price of the homes that sold increased 4.5% in Westchester, 11% in Putnam and 5.4% in Dutchess, according to the report issued by brokerage Houlihan Lawrence. The number of sales fell in Westchester by 17.7%, Putnam by 22%, and Dutchess by 22.7%...
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