Even a small drop in mortgage interest rates helped fuel an increase in Lawrence home sales in July, according to the latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors.
That may be a sign that the local home market may have a strong second half of the year, as mortgage rates have fallen even further recently and as national real estate observers expect lower rates still as the year winds down.
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The great thing about property taxes is they give you options to complain. One day you can complain that you are paying too much of them.
Another day, you can complain someone else is paying too little of them.
The complaint of too much happens when you get your tax bill. Even if your property tax rate didn’t go up, many years your tax bill has because home values have been rising.
As for the complaint ...
Reading a government’s financial audit can be a bit like reading Tolstoy: It is thick, dense and sometimes leaves you wanting vodka. But, it also can provide a good look at the big picture.
The City of Lawrence’s financial audit for 2023 is complete, and city commissioners will get a briefing of the document — which is the city’s official scorecard for its finances — at their Tuesday meeting.
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About once a decade, I seem to write about an idea to create a locally based venture capital fund.
Usually, some promising young company has just left the community to grow somewhere else. The question turns to: Why wouldn’t they stay in Lawrence? The answer often is money. They need money to expand, and there are no venture capital funds in Lawrence. But there are a lot on the coasts, and thus those ...
Getting a degree from a university can be a good strategy to earn a living wage, and then some. But if you're working at a university, well, a living wage can be a little more hit or miss.
At least that has been the experience at the University of Kansas, but officials now have come up with a plan to provide raises to the approximately 190 KU employees who were found to be earning less than a living wage. ...
News and notes from around town:
— It almost wouldn’t be fair to the wallets of Lawrence parents to put an ice cream shop virtually within sight distance of four schools. But that indeed may be one plan for a developing commercial center in west Lawrence.
Construction work is well underway on Stone Hawk Square, a new retail center near Clinton Parkway and Inverness Drive. If you are having a hard time ...
