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Normally not one to make pronouncements of historic proportion in so complex a field as the housing market, (where even top analysts have stumbled repeatedly in the throes of the housing bubble and its rapid but enduring deflation,) I’m going

When Donna Riniti came on board as the managing broker at my Coldwell Banker office, she introduced herself to the agents as a “neatnik” and rated applause for the revelation. Why is that I wondered? Within a short period of

Fed by a booming post-World War II economy, many of us and our parents grew up with the notion that bigger is better in all things It started with larger refrigerators that replaced tiny ice boxes; cars that jumbo-sized to

When I was a young man, I thought that staying home was being “no place” and that the high points of my life were to be played out on the stage of the world, away from where I slept at

As far as I know, there is no research to support my observations about how parents influence the eventual choices of their children regarding the kind of home they choose and household they run. But I must share a recent