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US housing market fuels bidding wars, higher prices ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Would-be homeowners are increasingly opting to pay sellers more than their asking price in hopes of edging out rival buyers as heightened competition for few homes on the market fuels bidding wars. About 52% of U.S. homes sold in January fetched more than their list price, up from 40.2% a year earlier, according to data from Redfin, a national real estate brokerage. It was the greatest share of homes sold above asking price ever recorded by Redfin, in data going back to February 2012. The trend is apparent in some of the nation’s most expensive housing markets. Some 63.2% of homes sold in Los Angeles in January went for more than advertised. In Seattle that jumped to 65.9%. These bidding wars are pushing home prices higher. The median home price jumped 15.4% in January from a year earlier to $350,300, according to the National Association of Realtors. “The housing market was in a frenzy in the beginning of 2022, with buyers competing for a limited supply of homes and sellers reaping the rewards of bid-up prices,” said Taylor Marr, Redfin’s deputy chief economist. Homebuyers face a difficult task navigating the housing market, with the number of homes for sale at record lows, prices rising sharply and average mortgage rates running higher than they were a year ago, and expected to climb further this year.
Long-term US mortgage rates back up this week ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week but remain at historically low levels as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise its main borrowing rate. The average rate on a 30-year loan hit 3.85%, up from 3.76% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday. A year ago, the long-term rate was 3.05%. The average rate on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages, popular among those refinancing their homes, climbed to 3.09% from 3.01% a week earlier. It stood at 2.38% a year ago. Last week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said he supported a traditional quarter-point increase in the Federal Reserve’s benchmark short-term interest rate when the Fed meets later this month, rather than a larger increase that some policymakers suggested. Powell opened the door to a bigger hike in the event that inflation, at a four-decade high, doesn’t noticeably decline this year as the Fed expects it to. The Labor Department reported Thursday that consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to come. The increase reflected the 12 months ending in February and didn’t include most of the oil and gas price increases that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.
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Meeting Location: Lihu‘e Civic Center, Moikeha Building, Meeting Room 2A-2B, 4444 Rice Street, Lihu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i Interactive Conference Technology: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZqvQJqy7SnFHqjCVpX8Iw Webcast Meeting: https://www.kauai.gov/Webcast-Meetings Date: April 12, 2022 Time: 9:00 a.m. Pursuant to Hawai‘i Revised Statutes Section 92-3.7, which codified Act 220, SLH 2021, the meetings of the County of Kaua‘i Planning Commission will be conducted as follows:
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The meeting location that will be open to the public with audiovisual connection is: o Lihu‘e Civic Center, Moikeha Building o Meeting Room 2A-2B o 4444 Rice Street, Lihu‘e, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i Meetings will be accessible by interactive conference technology through Zoom. o Participants interested in accessing the meeting via Zoom must register for the meeting. Once you register for the meeting, you will receive an E-mail with a meeting link and telephone conference number that is unique to each registrant and cannot be shared. o If joining by Zoom, it shall be the responsibility of the participant to join the meeting through the Zoom meeting link and ensure that the Zoom software is downloaded and operational prior to the meeting or join through telephone conference number provided via E-mail. In addition to Zoom, meetings will be live streamed and available as an archived meeting after completion at www.kauai.gov/Webcast-Meetings . Captions will be provided. Please note video production services or enhancements will not be available. Written testimony may be submitted on any agenda item and submitted to planningdepartment@kauai.gov or mailed to the Kauai County Planning Department 4444 Rice Street., Ste A473, Lihue, Hawaii 96766. Written testimony received by the Planning Department at least 24 hours prior to the meeting will be distributed to all Planning Commissioners prior to the meeting. Any testimony received after this time and up to the start of the meeting will be summarized by the Clerk of the Commission during the meeting and added to the record thereafter. Oral testimony will be taken during the public hearing portion of the meeting in-person at the public meeting location or via Zoom. Participants interested in accessing the meeting via Zoom must register for the meeting by using the link provided on the face of the meeting agenda. Once you register for the meeting, you will receive an E-mail with a meeting link and telephone conference number that is unique to each registrant and cannot be shared. o It shall be the responsibility of the testifier to join the meeting through the Zoom meeting link and ensure that the Zoom software is downloaded and operational prior to the meeting or join through telephone conference number provided via E-mail.
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Public Notice Public Notice Public Notice PUBLIC NOTICE KAUAI COUNTY HOUSING AGENCY COUNTY OF KAUAI NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Kauai County Housing Agency (KCHA), pursuant to Chapter 17 of its Administrative Plan and Federal regulations at 24 CFR 983 announces the solicitation to interested and qualified housing developers or development owners to apply for the Project-Based Voucher (PBV) Program. The PBV Program is a component of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program funded by the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). Like HCV, PBV provides federal rental assistance subsidies to income-qualifying families and households that enable them to rent decent, safe and sanitary housing in the private rental market. Whereas in HCV where the rental subsidy is tied to a voucher which in turn is allotted to a family or household, under PBV, the rental subsidy is tied to a specific rental unit and not the family or household. Under the PBV Program, a Public Housing Authority (PHA) can allocate up to 20 percent of its voucher assistance to specific housing units if the owner agrees to either rehabilitate or construct the units, or the owner agrees to set aside a portion of the units in an existing development. All units must meet HUD housing quality standards. Under the PBV Program, a PHA enters into an assistance contract with the owner for specified units and for a specified term. The PHA refers families from its waiting list to the project owner to fill vacancies. Because assistance is tied to the unit, a family who moves from the project-based unit does not have any right to continued housing assistance. However, they may be eligible for a tenant-based voucher under HCV when one becomes available. Rents in the PBV Program are set based upon market comparables of similar units in the project and surrounding vicinity and may not exceed 110 percent of the HUD-published existing housing fair market rents. Applicants for the PBV Program shall be an owner of existing affordable rental developments or projects with at least one year of experience in ownership and/or management of said developments or projects. For purposes of the PBV Program, “existing affordable rental developments or projects” are such housing units or properties that are already constructed and have tenants residing in individual rental units on premises. Also, applicants for the PBV Program shall be an owner of rehabilitated or newly constructed housing developments or projects. For purposes of the PBV Program, “rehabilitated or newly constructed developments or projects” are such housing units or properties that are proposed to be rehabilitated or constructed. The selected application will be chosen based on the greatest number of rental units being proposed to utilize PBV funding and for the length of time the applicant desires to utilize the PBV Program. The selected applicant will be required to be in Hawaii Compliance Express (HCE) clearance if receiving over $25,000 in contract awards. KCHA estimates that up to Sixty (60) units in the County of Kauai will be assisted under the funding available for the purposes of the PBV Program. To respond to this solicitation, all interested applicants are required to complete and submit a PBV application from KCHA. The PBV application is available for download at www.kauai.gov/housing or may be requested via mail by contacting the HCV Program Manager at (808) 241-4440, between the hours of 8:00AM and 4:00PM, Monday through Thursday, except for legal holidays. The application deadline for this solicitation is 4:00PM HST on April 25, 2022 . Questions, comments or requests for additional information may be directed to Jennifer Toguchi, Program Manager at jtoguchi@kauai.gov; via phone at (808) 241-4440; or by mail at 4444 Rice Street, Suite 330, Lihue, HI 96766. Accommodations for persons with disabilities, persons requesting auxiliary aides or materials in a different format and interpreters for non-English speaking citizens will be available upon written request by contacting Jennifer Toguchi at (808) 241-4440. Adam Roversi Housing Director Kauai County Housing Agency (TGI1363240
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