Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Like politics, all real estate values are local. National data is misleading and, for all but the National Association of Realtors and the mainstream media, irrelevant. If we want to sell our home in New...
Flooding is a nasty word to many golf community owners, especially those who live in coastal areas. But many happy homeowners live on properties that were the result of controlled flooding by the...
I'm counting on a pair of golf shorts or two from my wife and children for Father's Day today, although yesterday I went out and bought myself a new digital camera to improve the photos here on the...
Every time I see his picture taken with some developer or other, Jack Nicklaus looks tired. Not to sound too motherly, but he needs a little more sleep, maybe a few more carbs to round out the flesh a...
Climate is a major criterion for choosing a home on the course. Except for those lucky individuals with oceanfront property in Florida, the Sunshine State's flat, often boring topography is...
Sometimes developers bite off more than they can chew. Six hundred acres and a golf course at a small price per acre probably seem like a good idea at the height of the market. But then the folks...
I am working on an article about a 600-acre development in West Virginia that includes a nice-looking and challenging new golf course. Everything will go to the high bidder at an auction on July 19. As...
In our informal poll over the last week, Augusta National beat out Pine Valley by a margin of 5 to 1 as the course our readers would most like to play. The responses to this week's poll question...
Florida does not charge its residents a state income tax. For that reason, the Sunshine State has been especially attractive to well-heeled retirees with investment portfolios that generate...
For those of us choosing to live where we can play golf year round, the US Department of Agriculture's National Arboretum - the government agency tasked with, among other things, figuring out what,...
If your local weatherman forecasted sunny days for five days running, and it rained on every one of them, you would start carrying an umbrella, no matter how rosy the forecast. Then if he started...
I can't visit every golf course community, much as I would like to. There are thousands of them nationwide (and a like number around the world). But I do try to visit those in the most popular areas of...