What do Elkhart, Indiana and El Centro, California have in common? Admittedly, not much. Yet these two metro areas posted the largest year-over-year decreases in unemployment rate, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics Metro Area Employment and...
New York remains most “tax-burdened” state in the nation, according to The Tax Foundation, which released its Annual State-Local Tax Burden Rankings for 2010. Residents of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut paid over 12 percent of their annual income in state and...
by guest contributor, Peter Fugiel, Ph.D. During the Great Depression, the sharp fall-off in property tax receipts was offset by the adoption of state sales taxes and state/local aid programs. Recovery from the current real estate recession may well also rely on...
Real estate professionals have an increasingly positive outlook for the direction of home values, according to a third quarter 2012 survey by HomeGain, a website that provides online home valuations. The survey reported that 51percent of realtors expect home values to...
In August 2012, unemployment rates were lower in 325 of the 372 total metro areas in the nation compared to the prior year, according to data recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The national unemployment rate was 8.2 percent (not seasonally...
