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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Fantasy Golf Community: One way to compete against the winter blahs
We endured nearly three feet of snow a couple of weeks ago in our Connecticut town. In other parts of the state and outside Boston, it was even worse. After a week of mostly above-freezing daytime...
Art Imitates Life: Golf still rules as the symbol of an active retirement
My wife and I spent Valentines Day afternoon at the New Britain Museum of Art, a small gem of culture about 10 minutes from Hartford, CT. We were there to take in the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit, which...
Gauging Future of Golf Community Prices: Follow the Money
The last three months of 2012 showed the greatest quarterly jump in U.S. home prices since the last quarter of 2005, according to the National Association of Realtors. Of the 152 metro areas tracked by...
Searching high (mountains) and low (coast) guarantees messy pursuit of golf home
In searching for a golf home, or any home for that matter, the initial decision a couple should make is geographical -- where they want to live. We aren’t suggesting, for example, that Mr. & Mrs....
Market going crazy…five years from now
Local Market Monitor president and economist Ingo Winzer has issued his latest forecast for the economy and the housing market. Note that Mr. Winzer, who has analyzed real estate markets for more than...
All the Right Moves: North to South migration continues; NC tops inbound list
Every year, Atlas Van Lines publishes its “Migration Patterns” report based on the more than 73,000 households the company moved during the preceding 12 months. The recently issued report for 2012...
To Build or not to Build, that is the question we tackle in Home On The Course
We all long to live in a house perfectly suited to our tastes and designed to accommodate the flow of our lives. Getting to that point, however, is expensive and daunting. Building materials and...
Beating the Spread: Gaps between north and south real estate values widens
It may seem a sweeping generalization, but the numbers bear it out: Homes in golf rich markets of the southeast are appreciating in value faster than most metro markets in the north. In Avon, CT,...
Year in Review: November golf community visits highlighted a busy 2012
For retirees who don’t mind giving up some of the conveniences of nearby urban life in exchange for a quiet, golf community centered life, we found a few gems as October turned to November and we...
Signs of the Times in 2012
Golf is a tough enough game without unwanted distractions. When we play an unfamiliar golf course, we especially appreciate signs at the tee boxes that show the layouts of the holes. Better yet, we...
Is The Price Right? Best golf communities showing fastest price appreciations
A reader from Georgia wrote us today that his search for a vacation home in a southern golf community is on hold indefinitely “unless I see prices on a rapid escalation.” "Rapid escalation," of course, is...
Wall Street Journal on retirement homes: Going small may be BIG mistake
In a special report in today’s Wall Street Journal about retirement planning, the editors suggest that moving to a smaller home may not work out as intended for many baby boomers. The Journal...