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Hi, here are some NH local area labor statistics for August 2010 with seperate numbers for local towns like Moultonborough, Wolfeboro, and Laconia.

www.nh.gov/nhes/elmi/laushighlight.htm
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And, here's a recent back page news item short from the Concord Monitor.


Concord Monitor, Sept 23, 2010, page B1, by Daniel Barrick

Housing market remains stagnant

The state's housing market remained stagnant last month according to figures released yesterday by the New Hampshire Association of Realtors. The median sale price for a home fell 3 percent in August compared with the same month last year: from $222,000 to 216,000.

Total sales fell sharply last month compared with last year, from 1,110 homes sold in August 2009 to 981 sales last month. That was a 12 percent decline.

The declines were not as steep as July's, when statewide residential sales fell 32 percent compared with July 2009. But the figures indicate that New Hampshire's housing market has yet to recover from the real estate slump. The July sales figures were the first to reflect the expiration of homebuyer tax credits.

"Naturally, we're not thrilled to see the decreases over the last two months, but we're not completely surprised either," said Moniker McGillicuddy, president of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors.

Locally, Merrimack County saw the median sales price drop 7 percent last month compared with a year earlier, from $207,000 to $192,500. Home sales also declined nearly 12 percent in the county, with 98 homes sold last month.

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So, you can always depend on Moniker McGillicuddy, the president of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors to be telling it like it is, good news or bad news, when she says what she says!
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Here's a Wal-Mart item of interest with regard to the assessed value of a large number of the different Wal-Mart stores throughout New Hampshire. Never before has the New Hampshire state property tax board of appeal, a state agency located in Concord, had to devote an entire month of its' schedule to one individual applicant. The entire month of September, 2010, has been set aside for the state board of property tax appeals to hear Wal-Mart's attorneys and assessors appeals for lowering store assessed values across the state. These cases include a large number of different Wal-Mart stores and go back 3-4-& 5 years, including different calender years, in different towns.

Just as Wal-Mart will work with its' merchandise and food suppliers to have them lower their prices, Wal-Mart is similarly going through the individual town appeals process by taking it up to the state level of appeal in Concord.

There was a very good article on this about one month ago in a magazine like NH Business Journal or something, where I read about this, but I'm still trying to find it so's I can make a link.

Now, if Wal-Mart with their attorney & assessor teams can get their values lowered, what will that do for the other property tax payers within the same towns?