Property
Houses and the interiors inside them, priced over the whole holding period.
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The Same $10 Million House Costs $532,500 to Transfer in New York and $70,000 in Florida.
Both figures are computed from the two states’ published rates. The multiple grows with the price, because only one of the systems has thresholds.
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New York City Has Nine Property Transfer Tax Thresholds. Crossing the $10 Million One Costs $100,000.
Five taxes levied by two governments, and not one is charged as a top slice. Every threshold re-prices the whole sale rather than the part above it.
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What an American House Costs: Zillow’s Own Index, by Metro, County and Tier
American housing is usually quoted as one national number, and the national number is the least interesting one available. This is our standing reference for what the expensive end of the United…
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No US Resort County in the National Top 20 Lost Value. Eleven Below It Did.
Eleven of 38 American resort counties fell over the year. Every one of them ranks outside the twenty most expensive counties in the country.
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Nine of the Ten Most Expensive Counties in America Are Resort Towns. Manhattan Is Ninth.
Zillow publishes the top third of the housing stock for 3,074 US counties. Aspen’s is $10.1 million, which is more than three times Manhattan’s.
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Flats Are the Weakest Property Type in All 13 UK Regions. In England They Fell 2.2 Percent While Detached Rose 2.5.
HM Land Registry publishes four property types. The flat is last in every region it measures, including the ones where everything is rising.
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The Top Third of US Housing Lagged the Bottom in 65% of Metros. In the Biggest 25, It Led.
Zillow splits every metro into thirds by value. Read across all 891, American luxury housing is losing. Read across the 25 that matter, it is winning.
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Stamp Duty on a 10 Million Pound House Runs From 1.11m to 1.81m. The House Is the Same.
The bands are published. The two surcharges are published. Nobody puts them side by side, so nobody shows what the same deed costs three different buyers.
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What a British House Costs to Hold: Official Prices, by Region and by Borough
The national house price figure hides almost everything that matters. This is our standing reference for what UK property is doing underneath it, built entirely on the government’s own index rather than…
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Every London Borough, Ranked: 20 of 33 Fell, and the Worst Is Not the Most Expensive
All 33 boroughs from HM Land Registry’s own index. Price explains about half the decline. Tower Hamlets explains the rest.
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