General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Sorry Portland
In our piece on Tuesday about the housing woes, we indicated that just four metro markets of the 20 surveyed by the S&P Case/Shiller organization saw price increases from June 2006 to June 2007. ...
Miracle on the 9th green
The time you won your town the race, We chaired you through the marketplace; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high... -- "To An Athlete Dying Young," A. E. Housman This...
More ugliness in housing market
The respected S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index reported this morning that home prices in the 2nd quarter dropped 3.2 percent from the same period a year ago. It brought the index to its lowest...
Harm's way: Prepping for coastal disasters
As a teenager in the early 1960s, I read Nevil Shute's chilling apocalyptic novel "On the Beach." I've never forgotten the climactic scene of the condemned people of coastal Australia standing at...
On the market
A sample of homes on the course for sale in Wilmington, North Carolina The following homes are in the $400,000 to $1 million range in golf course communities in Wilmington, NC (we have added one downtown...
Around the communities
Membership in Cedar Creek's open-to-the-public Arthur Hills course and club is a bargain, at membership fees below $2,000. Foreclosures not an issue yet in golf communities Although some doomsday...
Go with the flow in your next home
No matter where your next home is located, someday you or your heirs will sell it (unless you do something in your lifetime that warrants a museum after you are gone). "Flow" will be important in...
The brutality of the alternate-shot format
My son Tim and I played in the Parent/Child Championship at our home club, Hop Meadow, in Connecticut this past Saturday. This was the last time we will compete in the 13 to 17 year old category as...
Odds and sods
Architect Ed Seay dies at 69 Ed Seay passed away last week at the age of 69 after a long battle with cancer. The golf course architect was probably best known for his collaborations with Arnold...
A real estate agency called eBay
Until today, I would not have thought eBay would be a good place to list a house for sale. But after talking with Paul Lussier, I may just change my mind. Yesterday, after listing my HomeOnTheCourse community...
The chance to do it right with next move
Over an archway in our kitchen, my wife has nailed a strip of wood that bears the inscription "Simplify. Simplify. Simplify." Yeah, right. With two teenagers and a lovable but super-sensitive dog,...
Foreclosure sales in golf course communities
The following is a brief scan of foreclosure properties in golf course communities in the southeastern U.S. Their listing here is not an endorsement of any kind but rather is offered to give a sense...