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Santa Claus’s Real Estate Is Booming
Nancy Schwab loves Christmas. Really, really loves Christmas. “I have Santa collections from when I was little,” said Ms. Schwab, 62, a retired school administrator. Thus, it became a source of annual annoyance that decking the house with boughs of holly (and twinkly lights) was frowned upon in her Joliet, Ill., neighborhood until Thanksgiving had come and gone. Almost two years ago, Ms. Schwab and her husband, Robert, a retired carpenter and contractor, began to contemplate relocating to a place with a vastly different feel. “We started researching, and Santa Claus, Ind., came up,” Ms. Schwab said of the town in the southern part of the Hoosier state that bills…
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Hawaii’s ultra-luxe real estate is smashing records. Here’s what’s selling
This $23.5 million mansion in Kauai recently sold to guitarist Carlos Santana. PanaViz Hawaii’s luxury real estate market is soaring to all-time highs fueled by several factors including pent-up demand from the coronavirus pandemic, record low interest rates and rising equity markets. In the first three quarters of this year, homes valued at $3 million or more saw sales volume rise 235{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} compared with the same period in 2020. Deal volume hit a record-breaking $3.7 billion, according to Hawaii Life’s Luxury Market Report. But sales of homes priced above $10 million have climbed at an even more robust pace — trouncing state records. “It’s just been like a rocket ship,”…
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