NH CIBOR president’s message: Public Policy Committee of NHAR – by Ethan Ash
This article was originally published on nerej.com on February 2, 2024. As we move beyond the primary season, the focus on politics may wane for some, but in New Hampshire, the 2024 Legislature in Concord faces a considerable workload with over 1,300 bills awaiting consideration. The Public Policy Committee of the N.H. Association of Realtors…
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Local Trends Explained
The Boston-Cambridge-Newton Market, or as we call it, Seacoast & Northshore Market, is #1 in Buyer Activity in New Hampshire for 11 straight quarters. It is also the only market in the state that has a commercial inventory “demand surplus”. It doesn’t take a commercial real estate expert to recognize that this is a market…
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Off-Market Commercial Listings
Residential agents are required to enter properties on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) within one business day of marketing a property to the public. Public marketing includes, but is not limited to: Flyers displayed in windows yard signs Digital marketing on public-facing websites Brokerage website displays Digital communications marketing (email blasts) Multi-brokerage listing sharing networks…
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Staffing Problems and Creative Solutions
It is tough to imagine that less than two years ago there were five unemployed people in the United States for every job opening. Now we have only 0.7 unemployed to job openings. This means that if all the 6.3 million people who were unemployed filled the job openings, there would still be 2.7 million open…
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Where Will Inflation Take Us in 2022?
To figure out where things are going, we need to ask what exactly is inflation, how is it measured and what is the cause of inflation? Here’s how those are defined: Inflation is a decrease in the purchasing power of money, reflected in a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an…
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Why Buy Right Now?
When everyone is doing something, I personally am wired to think that the masses are wrong and do the opposite. So when we are seeing record prices for single family houses, apartment buildings, and industrial buildings, I initially think that people might be making a mistake and buying real estate at the peak of a…
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NH Liquor Commission Seeks Buyer/Developer for Hampton I-95 NH Surplus Property
Request for qualifications issued to purchase and redevelop 88 acres for public-private partnership Concord, NH – The New Hampshire Liquor Commission (NHLC) has issued a request for qualifications (“RFQ”) as it seeks a highly and uniquely qualified, financially secure buyer/developer(s) specializing in highway-orientated commercial real estate to purchase and redevelop approximately 88 acres of prime…
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