Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
The Heublein Tower stands guard over Tower Ridge Country Club. Tower Ridge in Simsbury, CT, is one of those country clubs whose best days are behind it, a former private club whose quirky but always...
I am making a swing through the Carolinas this week and next, with stops tentatively scheduled for Fawn Lake in Fredericksburg, VA; Carolina Colours in New Bern, NC; Woodside Plantation in Aiken,...
My topic for the June edition of Home On The Course, our free monthly newsletter, is about how some deceptively small considerations can derail the process of looking for a golf home, making the...
If you are considering South Carolina as your golf retirement destination but are concerned that the notoriously conservative state may be a little too boring, recent headlines might bring some...
In the 40 years I have been vacationing in the Myrtle Beach, SC, area, only one serious hurricane has threatened that part of the eastern seaboard. Hurricane Hugo in 1989 walloped Charleston, about an...
Arnold Palmer's design at North Hampton, near Jacksonville, is among his best. North Hampton's developer, Landmar, has just emerged from bankruptcy with its parent company, Crescent Resources. Golf...
In the rush to attract as many potential buyers as possible, most mid-level to high-end golf communities offer such add-ons as tennis courts, Olympic-sized swimming pools and fitness centers with...
A group of economists who take part in a monthly survey about the U.S. housing market believes prices will begin to rise nationally in 2011 and will increase 12.4% between 2010 and 2014. The...
Too-good-to-be-true storylines never seem to go out of fashion in marketing campaigns, and no group hyperventilates more than do real estate developers, or at least the folks they hire to advertise...
Before the collapse of the housing market amid the sub-prime lending fiasco, the name Paulson was associated with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry (Hank) Paulson. But for anyone who has even casually...
I played two fine golf community courses the last two days –- Jack Nicklaus’ at Bay Creek in Cape Charles, VA, and the Arnold Palmer layout at Scotch Hall Preserve in Merry Hill, NC. (The Palmer...
Real estate taxes on million dollar homes in The Landings near Savannah, GA, run about $12,000 a year, one-third of the assessment on similar homes in many northern metro areas. For legal reasons too...