Brown to Brown Home Ownership

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Brown to Brown Home Ownership Program is a program designed to sell Brown-owned residential properties to eligible members of the faculty and staff. This program is intended to help the University attract and retain faculty and staff, provide faculty/staff housing close to campus, place under-utilized properties into productive use, and improve relations with neighbors and the City of Providence.

Program Summary

The properties in the program are all on College Hill and currently are unused or under-used by the University. These properties are in attractive residential neighborhoods close to the campus and best suited for family residential use rather than academic, administrative or student housing.

An important goal of the program is to reposition these homes so they become neighborhood enhancements and assets for Brown. With a strong demand for housing on the east side of Providence, this program also presents a mechanism to help attract and retain faculty and staff who want housing within easy walking distance to the University, often in desirable historic neighborhoods.

This program is a demonstration of Brown's commitment to the City of Providence and its College Hill neighbors by enabling Brown faculty and staff to live in the community. Furthermore, once sold, these properties will become taxable as privately-owned residential properties, adding to the tax base of the City of Providence.

The University desires to maintain long-term control of these properties. Therefore, a key element of this program is the option for Brown to repurchase the properties should any be needed in the future for academic expansion or other University purposes. Brown also maintains the option to purchase the house should the participant wish to sell, leave the employment of Brown (other than by retirement) or cease to use the property as a primary residence. To ensure houses remain marketable, the University maintains the right to approve capital improvements. As consideration for Brown's buy-back options, the sale price of the property will be set at 80% of the current market appraisal. When the University buys back the property, the repurchase price will be 80% of the then-current market appraisal.