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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Golf home “value” plays at GolfHomesListed
Although sales activity is picking up in many of the South’s most popular and high-quality golf communities, and prices are beginning to inch up across the region, plenty of bargains are still...
The Highs and Lows of prices for golf homes
If you thought you could get anything you wanted at Alice’s Restaurant, the current market of golf homes for sale is an even grander buffet. At one end of the groaning board are golf home sites that...
How Sweet It Is: Our New Web Site Debuts
Dear Golf Community Reviews reader, I wanted to share a bit of good news with you before we tell the world. Today we are launching a new web site, GolfHomesListed.com, where we will initially list...
Getting the Hook: Practice Ranges Dangerous in Wake of Bubba Victory
You know that scene from the movie Tin Cup where the Kevin Costner character, Roy McAvoy, almost takes out half the field on the practice range at the U.S. Open when he has a bad case of the...
Below Par: Public golf courses continue to close; could the privates be next?
Golf courses continued to close at historic rates in 2011, according to a recent report released by the National Golf Foundation. In all, since the industry started taking on water in 2006, 358 ½...
Geoffrey Cornish leaves legacy of refinement in golf course architecture
Geoffrey Cornish literally wrote the book on golf course architecture for us regular golfers. “The Architects of Golf,” written with Golf Digest’sRon Whitten, details the histories of design of...
Running Numbers: Rental income can defray costs of owning a golf vacation home
We shared recently some tips about how to buy a vacation golf home and rent it out to defray your annual costs. (Read it here.) The following are a sample of homes in three communities that...
Buying a golf vacation home to rent it out
It sounds so simple: Buy a warm weather vacation home in a golf resort community, use it for family vacations a few weeks each year and then rent it out the rest of the time. That extra income will...
Avoiding home buyer, seller remorse
Second-guessing is peculiar to our species. When a hungry lion sees an appetizing zebra, does he hesitate? Or regret it months later? But ever since that kerfuffle in the Garden of Eden, we...
Home prices stabilize in 2012, says forecast
The perfect moment for an investment in a golf community home would be when prices hit absolute bottom nationwide, in every market. But the housing market does not work that way; housing price...
Is 2012 the year you buy your dream home in a golf community? Help is on the way
The latest housing reports looked pretty good, and some economists are showing a bit more confidence in the real estate market for the coming year. But the bottom end of the market –- where...
Some old acquaintances should never be forgotten; we end our year on classic note
This is the final part of our year-end roundup of the best golf courses and golf communities we visited in 2012. If you see any golf course or golf community that piques your interest, please...