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Posts tagged as “housing”

Manufactured Home Dealers Among “Top” Ten Dying Industries

The Lake Area Improvement Corporation trumpeted the expansion of Watertown-based Superior Homes to Madison last December. Superior Homes, a subsidiary of Brookings-based window maker Larson Manufacturing, builds modular homes and commercial buildings and sells in an eight-state, three-province area. Let's…

City Overvalues House; LAIC Seeks Housing Authority?

In just a few minutes, the Madison City Commission will get together to discuss a couple of fun little housing issues. First on the agenda, in equalization news, the commissioners will address an Objection to Real Property Assessment from Ken…

South Dakota Census 2010: Madison Loses People, Gains Houses

I'm paging through more of the Census 2010 data. You can go to the Census website and run numbers yourself, but be forewarned: the interface isn't immediately user-friendly. I noted earlier that Madison was a loser in the 2010 Census,…

South Dakota Housing Market Rocks

...of course, for me, this just means higher property tax. The Portland Cement Association finds South Dakota is one of five states where the housing market will rebound fastest. Rebound? From what? PCA says our housing prices still increased 0.5%…

Population Growth Hinges on Local Building Codes?

Last week the New York Times ran a column from Harvard econ prof Edward Glaeser arguing that the population growth (and concomitant shift in political power) to the Sun Belt is related to regulation. But Glaeser notes that the regulation…

Noem Staffer Gets Million-Dollar Mansion

Expect a stoic silence from the Noem camp on this one... Once upon a time, Senator Tom Daschle caught all sorts of guff from folks who wanted to beat him for having a two-million-dollar house (oops, sorry: mansion) in D.C.…