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        The other day, I selected at random a bunch of homes currently for sale in top quality golf courses and, using the online real estate service Zillow, checked their sale prices before the 2008...

        While doing some online research recently, I came across this notice for a men’s golf group in the Myrtle Beach area. SUPER SENIORS** FLASH ** EFFECTIVE for the event 1/23/17 at ARROWHEAD, the...

        Just today, two clients contacted me about pursuing the purchase of vacation homes. One was targeting the Myrtle Beach area and the other Reynolds Lake Oconee. It could be confidence in the economy...

        Inoticed a link in a tweet yesterday about golf real estate and followed it to an article sponsored by some outfit called VTS (View the Space), a real estate leasing consulting firm. As I read the...

        As I write this, our deck is covered in about 16 inches of snow where it hasn’t drifted, thanks to high winds, to over 2 ½ feet. Just one week ago, some of the Hartford, CT, area golf courses...

        All sorts of conditions are conspiring to make this a good year for those considering purchase of a golf home to get it done. Interest rates are still low, if you plan to borrow money; home prices...

        Those inveterate golfers who love links golf in Scotland probably understand that many of the best golf courses on the Old Sod offer overseas memberships that are inexpensively priced. But for many...

        Baby boomers in search of reducing their expenses across the board may want to look beyond North Carolina to its neighbor immediately to the South. A recent Wall Street Journalarticle, citing The...

        I have been reading lately about many golf courses that are being threatened with development. This is personal to me in that the golf course where I learned to play the game in New Jersey was...

        It is a brutal reality of real estate pricing that the desirability of a particular area generally determines price. It makes sense; if many people want to live in a certain place, demand goes up. If...

Ya Gotta Have Heart; I Almost Didn’t.         To anyone searching this site for new material the last couple of weeks, my apologies. But I have a pretty good excuse. I had unscheduled quadruple bypass...

        In many of the top golf communities in the Southeastern U.S., prices rose in 2016. In some places the increases were more than 10%, in others in the five percent range. For a variety of reasons,...