Hundreds of Topeka homes sit vacant: City maintains list of chronically empty houses

Topeka’s chronically vacant houses tend to be old. Twenty-seven of the 49 buildings on the vacant property registry the city maintains were built more than 100 years ago, Shawnee County Appraiser’s Office records say. Those houses also tend to have below-average appraisal values. Thirty-five of the 49 properties on the registry have appraisal values of less than $45,000. Twenty-four are valued at less than $20,000, and 13 at $10,000 or less. … The majority of the properties are located in in North and central Topeka.
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