by Alessandra Malito | May 18, 2014 | Housing
Gambling may give some the option of hitting it big, but for the neighbors – it’s not always a jackpot situation. Casinos can, and often do, have a negative impact on home prices of neighborhoods around them. That’s because they attract gamblers and partiers...
by Alessandra Malito | Apr 28, 2014 | Housing
By Alessandra Malito Home prices are going to go up in the United States. They will be doing so slowly, though. Last month the results of the Case Shiller 20-City Composites study, which serves as a measure of U.S. home prices, were disappointing, with a decline of...
by Alessandra Malito | Mar 31, 2014 | Housing
By Alessandra Malito Home prices continued to unimpress this month. For the third consecutive month, the numbers have declined by 0.1 percent. But according to the Case Shiller 20-City Composites study, which gives a broader measure of U.S. home prices, there was an...
by Alessandra Malito | Mar 27, 2014 | Housing
By Alessandra Malito Kim Erle lost her 1940’s cottage home in Southampton during Hurricane Sandy. So when it was time to rebuild, she and her husband decided they were going to make a ‘green home.’ It was a switch she thought would protect her home — and it...
by Alessandra Malito | Mar 4, 2014 | Housing
By Alessandra Malito Despite a small decline in home prices last quarter, values are expected to continue increasing. In the fourth quarter of 2013, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices reported the National Index declined .03 percent, but grew overall last...
