by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 4, 2012 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
(MCT)—More Americans are signing contracts to buy existing homes than at any time in nearly two years, boosting the housing industry’s slow recovery, according to the National Association of REALTORS®’ index of pending home sales. The measure is up 2 percent to 97...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 4, 2012 | For Your Clients |
Recently, the longtime personal residence of NBA legend Michael Jordan in Highland Park, Illinois, was presented for sale by Katherine Chez Malkin and will be marketed globally by Luxury Portfolio International. With an asking price of $29 million, the secluded...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 4, 2012 | For Your Clients |
(MCT)—Q: In January, my husband and I flew to Rio de Janeiro from LAX, as we have done many times. But this time, something unusual happened. We had never had jet lag like this before, and we had it at both ends of the trip. If it had been just one of us, I might have...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 3, 2012 | Best Practices, For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
(MCT)—The U.S. housing market disappointed Warren Buffett last year, but he hasn’t given up hope. Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter, posted this weekend, that he was “dead wrong” when he predicted last year that the rebound in U.S. home prices would begin...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 3, 2012 | For Your Clients |
(MCT)—Children and teens are consuming too much added sugar in their diets, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly one in every six calories they eat and drink comes from some type of added sugar. This finding isn’t...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 1, 2012 | For Your Clients, News |
(MCT)—As interest rates have slid over the past couple of years, Gabriel Bousbib of Englewood, N.J., refinanced his 15-year mortgage not once, but twice—cutting his interest rate in two steps from about 4.6 percent to 3.375 percent. He’s one of a number of homeowners...