Home Technology 50-Plus Consumers Are More Tech-Savvy Than You Think Older consumers are more comfortable with new technology coming down the road than you might think. For example, MIT’s AgeLAB in 2016 showed...
Sales Millennials Poised To Buy Their First Homes In The Next 5 Years As the Millennial population ages over the next five years, there will be a significant increase in first-time home buyers, says industry...
Sales Expect Interesting Developments From The Housing Market In 2017 Based on projections by Bloomberg, CoreLogic, NAHB, NAR, Zillow, and others, Professional Builder Editorial Director Denise Dersin predicts...
Sales Homebuying Is More About The Neighborhood Than The House Buying a home is one of the most difficult decisions we make in life, on an emotional, psychological, cognitive, and moral level. New York...
Sales Millennials In Some Cities Buck Trend And Buy Instead Of Rent Data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 and 2006 1-Year American Community Survey shows that Millennials in some American cities are buying...
Financials FHA To Reduce Insurance Premiums For Most Borrowers The FHA has announced it will reduce the insurance premiums most borrowers will pay by a quarter of a percent, saving the average homeowner ...
Jobsite Safety OSHA Pushes More Proactive Approach to Construction Site Safety Some companies have adopted remote operated camera systems to mitigate risk in real time
New-Home Sales Replica Homes Show That Imitation Is More Than Flattery A small number of homeowners across the United States are living in replica homes — knockoffs of everything from the White House to the...
Home Technology Alexa Leads The Race For Best-Selling Digital Assistant Wired predicts that voice-enabled digital assistants will soon be everywhere, from cars and refrigerators to DVRs and speakers. There are...
Financials 5 Tax Breaks That Will Disappear In 2017 The mortgage interest premium deduction and the medical expense exception for seniors are two tax breaks that consumers won’t be able to...