Many of the nation's homeowner and condominium associations will be the next casualties of the recession due to ongoing mortgage foreclosures and falling real estate values, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago scholar of private government.
Predictions by economists a year ago appear to be on target today, and that indicates good news for American homebuyers and sellers. Findings from a survey of economists in July 2008 on issues related to the hard-hit U.S. housing market are on the verge of being realized, according to the Keller Center at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.
Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) offers tips and a free guide to ridding your home of respiratory irritants, spring cleaning: out with the allergens and mold.
Home is meant to be a haven of safety and comfort, but for adults 65 and older, hazards in a home pose a serious threat to their health and independence. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that half of all falls in older adults happen at home and every 35 minutes, someone in this population group dies as a result of their injuries.
A Baylor University business study of recent home buyers and sellers found that most consumers rely on three basic factors when deciding on an individual real estate agent for buying or selling a home.
Few Americans who struggle with high housing costs will be able to save their homes by filing for bankruptcy because of limitations in federal bankruptcy law, new research by University of Iowa law professor and bankruptcy researcher Katie Porter suggests. Porter said the fate of many homeowners is "grim" because most don't earn enough income to make the monthly payment on their mortgages.
People lose the ability to manage their lifelong collection of possessions and this becomes an obstacle to moving to a safer neighborhood, nearer to family members or into assisted living. Why is it so hard to get rid of stuff?
"Super seniors" has long-been a term reserved for college students that stay on for an extra year or two of study. Until now. A new breed of super seniors is storming college town communities"”loyal alums returning ten, twenty, thirty, even forty years or more after graduation to the first place they called home away from home.
The U.S. housing market slump has hit bottom and is poised to rebound, said University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Assistant Professor of Finance Lary Cowart, Ph.D.
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