by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 1, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Consumer, Home Spun Wisdom, Latest News, National, News |
(TNS)—Aging baby boomers don’t get any love from the consumer products sector. All the mainstream advertising is pitched toward 20- and 30-somethings. The only nod we boomers get is from hearing aid manufacturers and erectile dysfunction drugmakers trying to...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 24, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Consumer, Latest News, News |
A great deal of the wealth of the top 1 percent of Americans is built in real estate. Aside from owning your home, it used to be that only the wealthy and well-connected were investing in real estate. Unless you knew the right people and were willing to put up a big...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 24, 2017 | Advice, Buying/Selling, Buying/Selling, Consumer, For Your Clients, Home Spun Wisdom, Latest News, News |
Becoming a homeowner for the first time is an exciting and stressful process. However, once the papers are signed and the keys are in your pocket, your work really begins. Homeownership can be fraught with financial and emotional perils, especially if you’ve...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 23, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Consumer, Latest News, News |
Looking to invest overseas? Live and Invest Overseas recently released their ranking of the top places to buy real estate overseas in 2017. The top four places hail from Portugal and Colombia. Other locales on the list include the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 17, 2017 | Advice, Buying/Selling, Buying/Selling, Consumer, For Your Clients, Home Improvement, Latest News, Lead Story, Marketing, News, Trending |
With the many different projects reported annually in Remodeling Magazine’s Cost vs. Value Report, not much has changed from last year…and that’s not a bad thing. The 29 projects found on this year’s report paid back an average of 64.3 cents on the...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 14, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Consumer, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News |
The average home built in 2016 was 2,634 square feet, smaller than homes built the year prior, per recent data by the U.S. Census Bureau. The downsize, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), is in response to first-time homebuyers. “The...