General
Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Did Coldwell Banker promotion make customers pay?
If you were one of more than 25,000 owners who had a home listed with Coldwell Banker in October, you received an unusual request from your local real estate agent -- drop your price 10%. The firm...
All in one: Play golf and look for a home at the same time
The Coore/Crenshaw layout at Cuscowilla in Eatonton, GA, is consistently ranked in the top 3 ofGolfweek's "Best Residential Courses" list. By Christmas time, we golfers north of the Mason-Dixon...
Taking new friends at their words
New Bern, NC, is a "small town gem," and the local community of Taberna's golf course shows polish of its own. One of the great things about my job is that I become friends with people from around...
New York condo price protections: Sign of things to come in southern communities?
Condo developers in New York City have run into the perfect storm. Buoyed by foreign money and a wild-west mentality at the turn of this century, developers figured they could not go wrong by buying up...
Classic dilemma: Whose golf course designs will endure?
The word "classic" and Donald Ross' designs are synonymous. Pictures, like this from behind the 8th green at Oyster Harbors in Massachusetts, do not do the subtle contours justice. Golf writer...
Bottoms up: Timing the housing market
So when will we reach the bottom of the housing market and, therefore, the absolute best time to buy? The honest answer is, "Who knows?" All the variables, like unemployment figures, foreclosure rates,...
Carolina mountains high spots for McCain, although Asheville and Charlotte solid for Barack
The Nicklaus Design layout at Bear Lake Reserve might make you forget it is only nine holes. Conservative golfers looking for kindred spirits could find a home in the mountains of the Carolinas. ...
In election, Atlantic coast communities see red
Rees Jones' Charleston National is one of the best looking courses in the Charleston, SC, area. The surrounding community offers plenty of choices of homes. The primarily Republican residents along the...
Red communities, blue communities
The traditionally and wonderfully groomed private Athens Golf Club is a few miles from the University of Georgia and offers an alternative to planned community development courses. People choose...
Time out for America's big day
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. -- Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952 A number of non-Americans read this blog,...
Palmer wins big under clouds at Ginn sur Mer
Ryan Palmer birdied the final hole today to break away from a pack of five other golfers and win the $4.6 million Ginn sur Mer Classic in Palm Coast, FL. It was somehow fitting that the final holes were...
Swing state: What we can expect from Obama's golf game if he wins, and if he ever has time to play
If the polls and pundits are right (I mean correct), Barack Obama will be voted President on Tuesday. He would follow into the Oval Office a formerly avid golfing Prez, George W., who largely gave up...