Backyard furniture offers you a place to sit and enjoy your garden. According to luxuryhousingtrend.com, a company is taking this one step further, creating furniture that is your garden. The Gardening Bench, found on madeindesign.co.uk, is literally a garden bench. The bench has built in planters, which allow you to grow a wide array of [...]
Global Insight, the world’s leading company for economic and financial analysis and forecasting, released the first quarter 2008 update of the U.S. housing valuation analysis, House Prices in America, showing that single-family home prices fell for the third straight period, dropping at a steep 6.7 % annualized rate. Nationwide, 262 housing markets out of 330 [...]
Before your open house, do some last-minute prep. For those in need of help, Homestaging.fizber.com has contact information for professionals well versed in the art of making a home look appealing. If you’re not eager to shell out a thousand or more dollars to bring in a pro, take advantage of a few specific tips [...]
LUBBOCK, Texas The birth place of Buddy Holly has an unemployment rate of 3.3%. “Not as many lenders were putting people in homes they could not afford and the local economy has been stable,” says Cade Fowler, association executive for the Lubbock Association of Realtors. Texas Tech University and Lubbock Lake are [...]
There’s a general ongoing trend that has been simmering for quite sometime now. No, it’s not global warming though it’s also a global matter: it’s the “Buy America” trend.
For much of the world, the United States is now on sale at discount prices. With credit tight, unemployment growing and worries mounting about a potential [...]
Neighborhoods across America are seeing their landscapes change as a result of foreclosure. It’s no longer surprising to hear about financial difficulties in your neighborhood, or even on your street. Hit hard by staggering loans, debt, and unemployment, many people are defaulting on home loans and losing not just their homes but their neighbors, too.
In [...]
Much has been made about the growing number of foreigners buying real estate in the States.
No one knows exactly who is buying what or how much. But nearly one in three U.S. realty agents report working with customers from other countries, and almost half of those worked with three or more international clients — [...]
When buying a home for the first time it is most likely the biggest financial decision you have made thus far. Now you are at a point when selling your home, for what ever reason, is just as big of a financial decision as buying. No matter what the reason for selling your home you [...]
Sharing a vacation home seems like such a naturally great idea.
You and a few college buddies or a cousin, sibling or two decide to pool your resources and purchase a ski condo in Park City, a beach cottage in North Carolina or maybe a nice piece of land near a lake in Wisconsin with [...]
1. Don’t borrow from your 401(k) unless you absolutely need the money. Financial planners agree that in times of financial strain, don’t be cavalier about borrowing from your 401(k)! “401(k)s are not savings accounts,” says Armstrong. If you must borrow from a 401(k), he explains, during the next quarter you will be [...]