Flood Plains Impact Home Values

Flood Plains Impact Home Values 

 

Looking at a waterfront property in a community today all I can think of is how do I price this home now.  Many of these RI coastal real estate homes are in a high risk flood plain and due to FEMA insurance changes, over the last 60 days, have home values that have been impacted.

 

From real estate agents to home appraisers, the professionals are wondering how now to value a home for the market place with the new subsidies on second homes going away.  Oh yes, the flood insurance changes are held up in a Congressional committee for implementation because it a national crisis for over a million homeowners who pay subsidized rates.  Now these numbers do not include the coastal homeowners who don't carry flood insurance.  Yet a home buyer would need to have flood insurance if the coastal home is purchased with a mortgage (another 4+million homeowners here) and in a flood plain. 

 

So what do you see as the price of my home the homeowner asked me?  Yes, anyone can figure the physical replacement cost and land value on a home but that is not the real value now. It is a primo listing to have but I have to be honest it is tough to price now.  I am envious of this fantastic waterfront location with dock next to the ocean.  I am thinking a price somewhere less than the homeowner may have in mind because this home is in a high risk flood zone ...an 'AE' zone.  He carries no flood insurance on the home since it has no mortgage on it.  I can not price right to the current market until I find out about the insurance costs here.  

 

Who would have thought that flood zones would have such an impact on home values now. As a real estate agent I need to be clear to my clients on value.  This could work against you I have to say.  There will always be home buyers for the waterfront....just not as many buyers as before.

 

As Congress wrestles with what to do, homeowners are hanging in there trying to figure out what they do.  And this real estate agent needs to know how they are going to implement this flood plain insurance change sooner rather than later.

 

Home prices for coastal homes will await what the insurance costs will be (homeowners with a mortgage are notified at renewal time of increases). If you do not willingly carry flood insurance on your home because you own it outright, you should find out what those flood insurance costs are in case you at some point want to sell your home.  We will know more on this home once the homeowner talks with his insurance company to get a quote.  Pricing will need to be weighed with desirability as well as cost in a buyers eyes.  Coastal ownership will change in the future it seems.

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  Ginny Lacey Gorman is a Rhode Island coastal real estate agent who works and knows the RI geographic area of homes for sale, schools, happenings and important tidbits of information well.

 

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