by Paige | Jan 26, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
(MCT)—My last column discussed some modest initiatives my colleagues and I have taken to help enlarge the market for home equity conversion mortgages, or HECMs. These included a monograph on matching HECM options to senior needs, a senior-friendly calculator showing...
by Beth McGuire | Jan 24, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
Homeowners in the typical zip code area spent a total of $1.9 million to improve their homes in 2013, according to new zip-level estimates developed by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). This works out to about $1,400 per owner-occupied home within the...
by Beth McGuire | Jan 24, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
(MCT)–Q: My daughter and her 5-year-old sleep in a bedroom with a hardwood floor, filled with clothing and stuffed animals. She recently added a small table-top air filter and a humidifier that she activates every night, putting a half-gallon of water into the...
by Paige | Jan 23, 2014 | Best Practices, For Your Clients, News |
Bad news is no fun to deliver. That’s why even distinguished leaders and otherwise successful people will go to great lengths to avoid doing it. For example, you might tolerate a longstanding, but mediocre, vendor instead of giving the contract to another company. Or...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 23, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
In Q4 2013, Appreciation Slowed from Summer Peaks; Formerly Boiling Markets like Bay Area Reduced to a Simmer, According to Zillow Fourth Quarter Real Estate Market Reports • U.S. home values ended 2013 up 6.4 percent year-over-year, to a Zillow Home Value Index of...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 22, 2014 | For Your Clients, News |
David Shanks longed for a bigger house. A roomy kitchen was on the list—he loved to cook and had a hard time whipping up specialties for his wife and two daughters in their old narrow one. But his No. 1 priority was a shower stall in the bathroom large enough for him...