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Iowa House passes scaled-back bill for mobile home tenants

Cedar Rapids Gazette: A bill to safeguard residents of mobile home parks against rapid rent and fee increases, as well as adding protections against evictions, passed the Iowa House on Tuesday night despite criticism it had …

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City Council gives nod to rezoning requests for restaurant and row houses

The Des Moines City Council approved two rezoning requests Monday, one for a restaurant and brewery on 18th Street and the other for the development of 15 row houses on Fleur Drive.

The council voted …

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Hubbell plans new senior living community in Waukee

      Hubbell Realty Co. is planning its eighth senior living community in the Des Moines area, this one in Waukee on nearly 5 acres at Southeast Tallgrass Lane and Southeast Parkview Crossing Drive. 

The…
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Local Habitat for Humanity to get $9M from Mackenzie Scott gift

Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity will receive $9 million of a $436 million donation to Habitat for Humanity from MacKenzie Scott, one of the world’s richest women.

Scott, who previously had been married to …

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Missouri group buys Des Moines apartments; Hubbell Realty buys more land in Waukee

Bach Partners LLC, located in Kansas City, Mo., paid Broadway Heights Apartments LLC and Broadway Heights Apartments II LLC $13 million for property at 4216 E. 50th St. in Des Moines, Polk County real estate records …

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Mortgage rates top 4% for the first time since 2019

Wall Street Journal: The era of ultralow mortgage rates is over. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage topped 4% for the first time since May 2019, Freddie Mac said today. At the beginning of …

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Affordable housing symposium planned for April 7

Shane Phillips, author of “The Affordable City: Strategies for putting housing within reach (and keeping it there),” will be the keynote speaker at the Affordable Housing Symposium to be held at 8 a.m. April 7 …

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NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS: Waukee buys land for affordable housing development

Included among the goals of the city of Waukee is providing affordable housing in the Dallas County community.

To help achieve that goal, Waukee has purchased 15.2 acres of undeveloped ground at 500 N. Warrior Lane, paying Prairie Rose …

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2 affordable housing projects aimed at seniors planned in WDM

Construction of a multifamily affordable housing project aimed at people 55 and older is scheduled to begin in the summer at 8701 Ashworth Road in West Des Moines. CT Development plans a similar project at …

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Iowa Finance Authority launches inspections at subsidized housing properties

Des Moines Register: The Iowa Finance Authority, which oversees compliance of low-income housing developments in Iowa built through federal tax credit programs, will launch a major effort today to inspect 65 complexes overseen by two property …