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Determining the Discount (Premium??) for Homes Located Across From a School

Key Variables: Type of School, Buyer Characteristics Homes on busy streets typically fetch a discount. Is there an equivalent discount for homes located across from a school? (which, in a way, is really just a subset of “busy street” — call it, an “intermittently busy street”). I’ve never seen formal data on this, but I’d guess...
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Is There a Discount For Homes Located Across From a School?

Key Variables: Which School? Which Buyer? Homes on busy streets typically fetch a discount. Is there an equivalent discount for homes located across from a school? (which, in a way, is really just a subset of “busy street”  — call it, an “intermittently busy street”). I’ve never seen data on this, but I’d guess “yes.”...
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Is There a Discount For Homes Located Across From a School?

Three Variables Homes on busy streets typically fetch a discount. Is there an equivalent discount for homes located across from a school? (which, in a way, is really just a subset of the “busy street” discount). I’ve never seen data on this, but I’d guess “yes.” I’d further speculate that the discount varies depending on...
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Uber for One (at Least Occasionally)

Playing Spoiler?? What if there was a way to regularly spend 20-30 minutes of quality time with your increasingly independent, now-6′ tall(!), just turned 17 year-old son, without texts or phone calls interrupting? That had the added the virtue of saving said teenager an hour on (and waiting for) two city buses,** in weather that...
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Family Moving Motive: Minimizing Teen Driving

Unintended Consequence of Raising Awareness of Distracted Driving You’d think that once a teenager got their driver’s license, the family would consider moving further away from, not closer, to the high school their kid(s) attend. But, I’ve now just handled my third transaction in under a year where one of the driving (sorry) motives for...
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Is There a Discount For Homes Located Across From a School?

Weighing Three Variables Homes on busy streets typically fetch a discount. Is there an equivalent discount for homes located across from a school? (which, in a way, is really just a subset of the “busy street” discount). I’ve never seen data on this, but I’d guess “yes.” I’d further speculate that the discount varies depending...
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