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Author: Freeman LewinEvents
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Homeowners in most US counties now pay a bigger annual hazard premium than property-tax bill, and carriers keep repricing off catastrophe-model loss projections rather than local assessments. That flips the base of the affordability argument: what moved in 2026 is the hazard input, not the house price or its tax rate. Falsified if county escrow splits still show tax above premium, or if approved rate filings sit far below observed premium growth, which would make mix and non-renewals the driver. The test sits in county premium-versus-tax panels, state rate-filing and non-renewal registers, residual-market take-up and parcel peril tracks - none of which assessor or listing data carries.
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It maps the ad-valorem leg of the crossover by county while no equivalent premium map is published, showing the two legs are measured by different unlinked institutions - precisely the sourcing gap a discovery engine must close.
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The county-level crossover is the claim itself: the recurring hazard cost has passed the ad-valorem one, so escrow and mortgage-qualification math now runs off carrier rate actions that no assessor, listing or price index contains.
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A large personal-lines carrier staging availability and affordability roadshows in four more cities, in the same week as the county crossover data, puts the carrier-side constraint on the record: renewal pricing and non-renewals, not house prices, bind the household.
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