Business Management Grand Theft Home Building Someone is stealing from your business, eroding your margins, and beating up your bottom line. Beware: Bandits remain at large
Financials Mortgage Refi Activity Contributed Significantly To Housing Crisis New data from the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) suggests that mortgage refinance activity was as significant a contributor to the...
Financials Home Prices Jump In February; Inventory Experiences Double-Digit Decline Home prices in February increased 7.2 percent from a year ago to a median sale price of $260,900, making it the strongest February for price...
Financials Short-Term Interest-Rate Hikes Are A Double-Edged Sword The Federal Reserve has announced that short-term interest rates will increase 0.25 percent, followed by two similar increases later this...
Financials DIY-er Builds Five-Bedroom Home With Help From YouTube Tutorials Nearly a decade ago, Cara Brookins, a mother and computer analyst in Little Rock, Ark., happened upon a house badly damaged by a tornado....
Financials FHA To Reduce Insurance Premiums For Most Borrowers The FHA has announced it will reduce the insurance premiums most borrowers will pay by a quarter of a percent, saving the average homeowner ...
Financials 5 Tax Breaks That Will Disappear In 2017 The mortgage interest premium deduction and the medical expense exception for seniors are two tax breaks that consumers won’t be able to...
Business Management Ways for Home Builders to Reduce Direct Costs Direct costs are usually the largest slice of the cost-component pie for home builders. Cutting those costs goes a long way toward saving your business money
Financials The Perfect Marketing Budget For 2017 No budget? Proceed at your own risk. Or, check out our strategic spending guide for the coming year
Financials Green Loans Are Turning Mortgage Lending Upside Down Energy-efficient upgrades such as solar panels may be an important goal, but critics say there are too many negatives about the loans....
