This type of restrictions are not common in town houses or single-family developments.
Quotes about single-family (16 Quotes)
We're still talking to condo developers, but our purpose is to create very traditional-style duplex condominiums. They will be very single-family in appearance.
To get the density we're looking for, we could reduce the number of the single-family homes. It would be more affordable and some could be used for professional offices.
This one-level house used to be a duplex and had a hallway running down the middle of the house, so when former owners turned it back into a single-family home, they enclosed that hallway, giving me tons and tons of closet space.
This is a confirmation that weather probably was a factor holding up activity in November, but underneath the surface, the setback in December isn't even what it looks like. What I'm calling attention to specifically is the fact that single-family starts actually rose about 3.6 percent, while all the setback was in multi-family units.
It's taking place in all the areas where single-family homes are becoming unaffordable for your average first-time or middle-income buyer. Not that many people can afford a half-million-plus for a starter home.
There's about 6 trillion in single-family mortgage debt outstanding, and total home value is about 13 trillion, which means there's about 7 trillion in home equity outstanding. Last year was a big year for liquefying home equity -- about 100 billion. That's a drop in the bucket compared to 7 trillion.
The focus has largely been on building single-family homes here. It's becoming less affordable to buy here. It's not necessarily becoming less affordable to live here. Apartment rates won't necessarily go up.
This has clearly been the year of the condominium for Massachusetts real estate buyers. Massachusetts, like other areas of the country, experienced a phenomenal growth in real estate prices over the past few years, especially in single-family homes, but eventually price outstripped demand and a correction was inevitable. Those who couldn't afford to buy homes turned to condos.
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
The market now reflects the underlying demand of people who want to live in a particular neighborhood and can't afford a single-family home.
Small Lots, Smart Designs coincides with record-breaking area home prices and a renewed interest in creative alternatives to the traditional suburban single-family home. It has the potential to turn many renters into homeowners through fresh, innovative, and cost-effective means in the coming years. The professional designs were progressive and the student designs were equally refreshing. In fact, our judges named the three top student designs in co-1st place.
We calculated it three different ways so nobody can complain. We did it by average price, by median price and then average price per square foot. The reason for price per square foot is if someone goes into a ZIP code and builds 800 or 1,000 condominiums where they traditionally have 2,300-square-foot single-family homes, we didn't want that number to be skewed.
Single-family residents right up next to us gives us great concern.
I will run myself out of business in Southern California if I continue to focus solely on single-family, detached suburban homes.
One thing about the Midtown area was at one time it was faculty houses and as they moved away larger, older homes not suitable for single-family use became available and no one had a good handle on the number of units going in.