Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Zillow.com is a great idea, a site where homeowners and potential buyers, as well as nosy neighbors, can get an up-to-date appraisal of values for most homes in the U.S. In theory, Zillow does what...
How often do you get an offer like that? We are planning our upcoming research trips to visit golf course communities in some of the more popular areas in the southern U.S. Here are a few of the...
"This isn't going to be over in a year. Housing prices could be declining for years and years." -- Robert Shiller, Yale University economics professor. "We don't think the market is in that bad of...
You have to go pretty deep into the list of metro areas with the highest rate of sub-prime mortgages delinquencies before you come to an area in the southeastern U.S. The Wall Street Journal on...
The housing optimists' glasses were more than half full last week with the decent numbers on existing home sales. The hope, false though it was, was for a positive report today on new home sales....
From time to time, I can't resist the urge to comment on things unrelated to golf, especially if they irk the political correctness lobby... I had the pleasure last Sunday of sitting next to my...
National Association of Realtors data released yesterday indicates that existing U.S. house sales increased almost 4% in February compared with January, the biggest single-month gain since March...
Thousands of male golfers mourned the loss last year of Hooters Airlines, which had provided cheap and reliable service to Myrtle Beach (and, ahem, friendly flight attendants) from Newark and a few...
Cutter Creek, a new community near Greenville, NC, will soon release its second phase of properties (although their web site says this will happen in the summer, but a note to us says the spring). ...
A few days ago, I wrote that my son, Tim, scored his first ace on St. Patrick's Day. After a few cursory congratulations to him from the cart boys and the foursome that played in front of us at...
"We haven't had a stand-alone project in seven to eight years." -- Damian Pascuzzo, past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, indicating that all new golf course development has...
After enjoying a few warm days this last week in South Carolina, we found ourselves thinking about summer and how some days are so hot that you arrange for the earliest possible tee time. You don’t want...