Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Each year in March, 32 college golf teams gather on the two golf courses at Paradise Point inside the gates of Camp LeJeune, the immense U.S. Marine base in Jacksonville, NC. Pairs of collegians are...
Rick Vogel’s story about his golf ball hunting walks with wife and dog struck a chord with our readers. (Read it by clicking here.) Most comments reflected an environmental theme. “Rick is making a...
A court in Charleston, SC, has cleared the way for the McConnell Group to purchase The Reserve at Litchfield Beach for $1, plus settlement of the golf club’s debts. Meanwhile, in Richmond, VA,...
by Rick Vogel Rick Vogel is one of our most faithful readers and keeps us up to date on golf community news in the Asheville, NC, area. This part of an email exchange last night is one of many such...
A recent article in Barron’s magazine identified its 10 top choices of the best places to buy a second home. With the exception of Aspen, CO (6%), all the magazine’s choices are in markets whose prices...
Property owners at The Cliffs Communities have an extra incentive to provide their developer with $100,000 or more in financing -– a waiver of dues. That little pot sweetener turns an effective rate of...
As economists struggle to predict when the overall housing market might bottom out or turn upwards again, I have begun to rely on one leading indicator in the golf community real estate market --...
Tiger Woods has made it official, according to an Associated Press report: He will make his return to professional golf at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta in a few weeks. Earlier indications...
High-end planned golf community developers will be looking toward the Carolina mountains and Cliffs Communities property owners in coming weeks to determine if the path to cheap financing lies...
Our March issue of Home On The Course details how one golf-community homeowner and his wife manage to spend three months a year in a “second home” without paying taxes or any of the other upkeep...
I was conducting a little research for a client today on Landfall, an expansive and well-established golf community near Wilmington, NC. The community features 45 holes of golf, including 18 holes by...
New England is often referred to as “The Land of Steady Habits.” Apparently one steady habit in the northeast states is to commit to government employee pensions without the means to pay for them. ...