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It's cheap because unlike in CA, NIMBYs can't stop new houses.
by umrcumrcu 3y ago
It's cheap because unlike in CA, NIMBYs can't stop new houses.
- bobthepanda 3y agoIt is also cheap because property tax acts as a lid on prices. If the price goes up in Texas the tax goes up accordingly, but the same is not true in California due to Prop 13. And Texas has some of the highest rates in the country.
- WirelessGigabit 3y agoCA tax increases are capped. So if you buy today and next year the value of your house goes up a LOT your increase is capped. The other part that sucks is inheritances. Then the price is not re-evaluated. Now you have people sitting on a $2,000,000 house with a value of 200,000.
- CameronNemo 3y agoThe inheritance trick is really limited now. The parent (or whoever is passing the house on) had to have been living there, and the inheritor has to move in and make it their primary residence.
- KnackeredHues 3y agoThat broad brush paints regulatory agencies as petty and selfish.
- MrMan 3y ago[dead]
- retrocryptid 3y agoOr maybe it's cheap because one out of five houses sold are in a flood plain. Also, it's not the NIMBYs stopping unchecked development.