by Beth McGuire | May 7, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
Almost every day, I hear advertisements about buying gold because it is such a great investment. As I have heard these claims, I have wondered how real estate stacks up to gold as an investment. Surprisingly, some correlations exist between buying gold and buying real...
by Beth McGuire | May 7, 2014 | For Your Clients |
(MCT)—A reminder: Asking a question here should not be a substitute for hiring a professional to handle a problem. The most important function of this column is as a forum for ideas. Some problems look alike but often are not exactly the same, so one person’s solution...
by Susanne Dwyer | May 6, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
Despite the recovering economy, home foreclosures have not abated—in fact, they surged in January. “There’s a lot of distressed debt still being held by the big banks because they can’t just dump it back into the market all at once; they have to slowly release it,”...
by Susanne Dwyer | May 5, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
May is National Home Remodeling Month. This is the first of a series of posts in recognition of the occasion with results from NAHB’s quarterly Remodeling Market Index (RMI) survey showing that bathrooms remained the most common type of jobs performed by NAHB...
by Susanne Dwyer | May 5, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
This Mid-Century modern New England estate, designed by architects Donald Billinkoff and Yvan Prokesch and nicknamed Strawberry Ridge, is located in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains in Ridgefield, Conn. Spanning 11,272 square feet, the six-bedroom,...
by Susanne Dwyer | May 5, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
(MCT)—QUESTION: I recently read that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is going to make the mortgage closing process more consumer-friendly. Do you think it can? ANSWER: I read the statement by the CFPB director, who correctly identified the closing problem:...