On the surface, Seattle’s housing market looks like any other in the country. The inventory of single-family homes for sale is up substantially year over year. New listings are up slightly, sales remain subdued and home prices aren’t moving much. That’s the story in the majority of housing markets. But Seattle is wrestling with a […]
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House Speaker Mike Johnson said he’s pressuring Senate Republicans to refrain from changing a deal to increase the state and local tax deduction cap to $40,000, pushing back on President Donald Trump’s willingness to scale back the write-off. “I’ve asked them to modify it as little as possible because I’ve got a very delicate balance
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune believes the deal that led the House to increase the maximum deduction for state and local taxes to $40,000 will have to be changed in his chamber, according to his office. The Senate has begun deliberations over President Donald Trump’s massive “Big Beautiful Bill” that narrowly passed the House on
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President Donald Trump said his massive tax package is close to being finalized, having notched a deal over the state and local tax deduction, but the White House has yet to win over a faction of conservatives who want more austere spending cuts. “We’re doing very well. It’s very close,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. House
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As Congress continues its effort to rewrite major portions of the tax code, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) unveiled new polling showing just what the American people are looking for in the legislation. The national survey shows overwhelming bipartisan support for tax provisions that strengthen homeownership, support small business owners and the middle class,
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As the debate over tax reform continues to play out in Congress, housing organizations are lauding the housing provisions in the House of Representatives‘ Ways and Means Committee’s current tax proposal. The National Housing Conference (NHC) praised the housing provisions included in the current draft of the bill through a statement from David Dworkin, its
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The House tax committee is looking to raise the cap on the state and local tax deduction (SALT) and formally adopt several of President Trump’s campaign tax promises as part of a multi-trillion-dollar package, Republicans’ main legislative priority. The draft legislation, introduced by the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives on
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