National real estate trends

  This article from the National Association of Realtors® appeared several days ago in my email inbox and I was a bit surprised this hadn’t been “shopped around” or maybe it has and I just missed it. It does make sense for Bank of America (and other lenders for that matter) to offer this incentive […]

  Former British prime minister and parliamentarian Benjamin Disraeli once said “there are three types of lies: lies; damn lies; and statistics.”  What a great lead-in for this post. An opinion article titled The Vanishing Workers in last Saturday’s (May 6, 2012) Review & Outlook section of The Wall Street Journal addressed the current status of […]

  An article from the National Association of Realtors@ mentioned this situation so I thought I’d provide some insight into the background.   The rate is down from 66 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, 66.4 percent in the first quarter of last year and a high of 69.2 percent in 2004 before the housing […]

  It’s that time of the year to make home improvements whether just to make repairs or in preparation for placing a house on the market to sell.  It also seems that frugality is at the top of this year’s list, e.g. replacing the front door. Here is a list in no specific order which […]