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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Golf condos that almost pay for themselves
Condominiums are the Rodney Dangerfields of the housing market, especially during a recession: They get no respect. But now, withThe May edition of our free monthly newsletter, Home On The Course, is...
Silver lining in declining home prices
Home prices in the U.S. will stabilize in the third quarter of this year, according to Wisconsin-based information and technology firm FISERV, a prediction supported by another information...
Rumors of golf’s death greatly exaggerated
Enough already. Golf is not dead, nor is it suffering from some long slog down the drain because (allegedly) our social network addicted children aren’t interested in the game; the gainfully...
Odd choices in best golf course rankings
Once you get below the customary top choices in Golf Digest’s annual rankings of the Greatest 100 overall and 100 public golf courses in the U.S., the choices are curious and demonstrate that there...
Why Wait? Five good reasons why you should take the money and run south
It’s a buyer’s market for property, right? Well, not exactly, according to an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal today [click here for accessMoving from Long Island, NY, to Myrtle Beach,...
Is six hours too far to travel for a round of golf? Some Japanese do not believe so
My brother forwarded to me an article from the BBC (British Broadcasting System) on a tired subject, the state of the golf industry. Under the heading “Global Golf Industry Facing Challenges”...
Rounds played in February
Southern golf courses like Richmond's Federal Club benefited from a generally mild February. As the weather goes, so goes golf…mostly Golf courses struggling for survival would certainly benefit by...
Nowhere Fast: Tiger Woods golf design business stalled; other odds & ends
New York Times columnist Paul Sullivan has written a comprehensive article in the “paper of record” about Tiger Woods’ design business. There isn’t much new in the article; the golf star’s three...
Fortune magazine says real estate is back
The cover story in the new issue of Fortune magazine is not about the economic fallout from the Japan tsunami and nuclear reactor problems, nor is it about the impact on oil prices of the military...
Proximity to airport helps retired boomers get over separation anxieties
We baby boomers are an odd bunch. Almost half of us -– 46% actually –- say one of our top reasons to choose a specific retirement location is to be near our children. Fair enough, but a larger number...
The March issue of Home On The Course: Whose golf community is it anyway?
Anyone who still thinks “safe” investments can yield consistently good returns has never heard of a guy named Madoff. If the last few years taught us anything, it is that investments that seem too...
Sincerity, Bobby Ginn style
No one developer has done more to make buyers nervous about purchasing a golf community home today than has Bobby Ginn, whose genius was at tapping into the hopes, dreams and egos of wealthy and...