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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
Drilling down: Housing market data best at micro level
My local paper, the Hartford Courant, runs a section a few times a week called "Homing In: The Housing Market in Your Part of Town." It displays quarterly sales and price data for homes in...
Test drives: Southeast developer offers golfers opportunity to be Member for a Day
If there is anything wrong with the links-style layout at North Hampton Golf Club, it is that homes are often in view just off the fairways, although rarely near the field of play. These are...
Peoples choice: GolfLink list defies logic
North Hampton Golf Club in Fernandina Beach, FL, ranked #45 on GolfLink's list of best courses in the U.S., ahead of the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island and Torrey Pines. Golf homes adjacent to the...
Getting old: For those who want provenance in their next home, the time might be now
I love golf, and my wife and I love old houses. Before the kids, we owned a 200-year old house in the northwestern part of Connecticut. We talk about possibly finding an old house in the south,...
Where the deer and the interlopers play
As my foursome rounded the corner toward the 11th tee at Ledyard, CT's Lake of Isles South Course today, we came upon this interested bystander. I will have more to say about and additional photos of...
Tough ones: St. Andrews Old Course, #14
Damned if you do: Those who steer clear of Hell bunker and play down the right side of #14 at the Old Course will be faced with an approach over a large hump that guards the right front of the...
Flood plans: Insurance companies offer new approaches for coast dwellers
I always get a little nervous when insurance companies get creative. It usually means the insurance company doing the creating has found a backdoor way to limit its liabilities. In the end, it winds up...
Putting foreclosed, abandoned homes to use
My brother Bob recoiled at my idea the other day that the U.S. government consider tearing down some homes that are in default. I saw that idea, proposed in the Wall Street Journal, as a way to...
Gimme Shelter Harbor: Classic elements on modern course put it in "best" category
Visually and strategically, the 9th at Shelter Harbor is the epitome of a great par 5, with a lay-up second shot that demands thought and care. by Tim Gavrich On Monday, my father and I had the...
Home wreckers: We own em, so why don't we just tear em down?
I am not an economist, nor do I play one at this blog site. But I know just enough to be dangerous in my thinking that, maybe, as a Wall Street Journal columnist suggests today, we should start...
A rave review for Bethpage Black
The Black Course at Bethpage in Farmingdale, NY, on Long Island, is inarguably one of the best daily fee courses in the nation, right there with Whistling Straits, Pebble Beach, the Ocean Course at...
The long and short of competitive golf
This week at the U.S.G.A. Junior Girls National Championship at Hartford Golf Club, Karen Chung, a 13 year old from my hometown of Livingston, NJ, showed that distance off tees is not all it's...