General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Record month for Golf Community Reviews
It has been almost 4 ½ years since we launched the Golf Community Reviews web site, and although we never set specific readership goals, we have quietly raised a glass as we reached a few...
Pending home sales in north may lead to renewed burst of activity in southern U.S.
The greatest impediment to the sale of golf community homes in the southeastern U.S. is not an issue of inventory, foreclosures, or even the well-publicized financial difficulties of some former...
Shortest, most fun par 4 in competitive golf
It was not surprising that some of the biggest crowds at this weekend’s Travelers Championship near Hartford, CT, gathered around the shortest par 4 on the PGA tour -– and planted themselves there for a...
Good for Game: In youth, golf may be served
Where have you gone Tiger Woods? A golf nation turns its lonely eyes to…kids. I write this as I watch the Travelers Championship at the Tournament Players Course just south of Hartford, CT. Unless you...
Don’t Fence Me In: Trump erects barrier on Scot’s property, sticks him with half the bill
No one’s apprentice when it comes to negotiating a deal, Donald Trump has built a fence around a recalcitrant private property owner’s land in Scotland -– and sent him the bill for half its cost. The...
Toll Brothers’ golf division joins rush to buy up good golf courses in down market
We tend to forget that there was a recession in the early 1990s, when people stopped buying new homes and gave up their golf club memberships as anxiety about the economy rose in tandem with...
The Twain Meets: June issue of Home On The Course publishes next week
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. – Mark Twain Mark Twain never said anything directly, that we have found, about buying a golf community home. But...
Black Hall Golf Club short on yardage but long on challenge (and waiting list)
For those who think all golf clubs are in trouble, get in touch with the membership chairman at Black Hall Golf Club in Old Lyme, CT, and ask what it will take to join the 44-year old club. “About...
Wall Street Journal says “It’s Time to Buy”
The "Weekend Investor" section of Saturday's Wall Street Journal includes one of the most bullish cases to buy a home that we have encountered recently this side of the National Association of...
In one South Carolina golf community, price drops give hint of larger picture
Because I own a vacation home there, I am on the mailing list for a few real estate agents who list and sell properties in Pawleys Plantation in Pawleys Island, SC. Occasionally they send out market...
Experts predict active hurricane season
Higher than normal sea surface temperatures and a weakening La Niña effect have led scientists in two respected organizations to come to about the same conclusion -– the upcoming hurricane season that...
Will your new golf home go up in value? Market forecasts available at a discount
Bloodied and bruised by the housing market recession, who among us is ready to plunk down a good chunk of our net worth for a retirement home or vacation home without a good idea of where prices...