Wandering around the web today, I ran across an interesting site.

The EPA has a website that allows us to map environmental issues that might be in areas we are thinking of buying a home. There is a wealth of information that one can find here (here are the titles… fell free to visit the [...]

137…  Currently on the market.

I am asked that question periodically.  There are 137 homes on the market as of the time I am writing this that have 4 car garages in Gwinnett County, GA.  They range in price from $10.5M down to $154,900.  They are all over the county.  One has a 20 car garage, [...]

Of course there is one little hitch…  You have to be from outside the United States.

I just ran some numbers, and the US Dollar is at it’s lowest level in at least the last five years against both the Euro and the Pound.

For the Euro:

In January of 2003, the Euro was worth about $1.05.
As of [...]

Part of my daily reading ritual includes Seth Godin’s blog.  He is often described as a marketing genius.  I think that well might be true.  But, his blog isn’t just about marketing, but also often touches on greater issues.  This one certainly did.  Although, he actually wrote it four years ago… still rings true.  Did [...]

While researching yesterday’s blog entry, I ran across this little tidbit.  Frankly, it p***es me off.  I am proud to be a member of the NAR.  I think that there is a place for a strong voice both for real estate professionals, and to champion the issues for increasing home ownership for consumers.

But this is [...]

I ran across a post on Active Rain that pointed me to an outside article that talks about the need for at least a 20% reduction in home prices in order for families to be able to afford to buy. Well, I love it when there are specific claims and statistics. I can [...]

Do you remember those words from grade school?  The big kid from the back of the class shot a spitball at the teacher, and so everyone got the same punishment.  There were 29 kids in the class that didn’t do anything, but they still got the same treatment.  What’s worse is that the kid that [...]

I ran across a blog post by Jay Thompson regarding a story in the Wall Street Journal about on-line home searches. He noted that in his area the WSJ had it wrong. He researched the numbers for the local MLS, Trulia and Zillow. His findings were that Zillow only showed about 10-31% [...]

In response to janeAnne’s post about What would you do if money were no object to build a dream green home, I had to expand to a full post.

Here is what I originally responded with in the comments of her post:

If money were no object… but taste was:

Active Solar water heating, and power generation.
Passive solar [...]

Sitting down this morning getting my Fox News fix, I noticed a release by the NAR that has me re-thinking a position I have taken…

Here is the link to the NAR news release.  To summarize, the position the NAR takes is that housing will start to pick up in 2008.  Existing home sales will rebound, [...]