Real estate tip: Owning an old home
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Living in the Urban Core of Kansas City frequently means living in an old home. Old homes make up much of the Midtown and Urban Core housing stock, whether that means a turn-of-last-century ...
Westport High School redevelopers to present revised proposal
Midtown residents, who have shown a great deal of interest in the reuse plans for Westport High School, can get an update on Monday, March 21. The redevelopment group Kansas City Sustainable Development Partners wants to use the track/field ...
Title insurance: An obscure force hampering home sales, a new form of “redlining?”
As the city tries to deal with hundreds of abandoned houses, the refusal of title insurance companies to sign off on bank mortgage loans is a problem here and nationwide.
Officials discussed it Wednesday at a joint meeting of the city council ...
New loan fund to start urban core projects
A joint city council committee on Wednesday advanced city participation in a program to provide startup loans to urban core projects.
The loans would provide for things like architectural drawings, financial consultants and more that are needed ...
Real estate: Hot market tips
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2016 has jumped out of the gate, as we suspected it would. Last year was another seller’s market. Inventory and supply were both down double digits, but buyers were plentiful. Low interest ...
Terms spelled out for $1 houses
In two weeks since the program was announced, 3,000 people have inquired about buying a dangerous building for $1.
Today Ted Anderson, director of the Land Bank of Kansas City, provided details to the neighborhood and public safety committee ...
Mayor proposes “shared success” development fund for distressed areas
Mayor Sly James today proposed using payments that developers give the city in lieu of taxes to build a fund for projects in city areas designated severely distressed.
It’s called the shared success fund, he told the council planning and zoning ...
Dangerous buildings to be flattened or fixed
City Manager Troy Schulte explaining the new program to deal with dangerous buildings.
You can buy a dangerous building for $1, but better hurry.
The city plans to demolish all of about 800 such structures over the next two years, officials ...
BNIM drops redevelopment plan that led to tax incentive fight
Architecture firm BNIM is abandoning its headquarters project in the Crossroads, a proposal that led to an intense citywide debate about the use of tax incentives.
The developers wanted to use incentives to help renovate an old building at ...
63rd Street corridor gets city support
In an effort to speed redevelopment, the city council on Thursday made a section of 63rd Street eligible for property tax breaks.
The section from Oak Street to Troost Avenue was once a thriving business district and can be again, officials ...
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