You don’t have to sell your home right now. You would like to, but you can wait until the market turns around and you have a better chance at getting a higher price for your home. I don’t blame you and if you don’t have to sell right now, then don’t.

Entrepreneurs don’t retire, they just find a new project.

Over the past decade, baby boomers produced a high rate of entrepreneurial activity, and Dan Stangler, senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation, says the number of baby boomers starting a business in their traditional retirement years is likely to increase.

Mortgage applications bounced back last week after nearly a month in the doldrums when the number of applications fell to a seven-month low.

Here’s a trivia question for you: At what point were more homes on the Denver and surrounding suburbs market than any other time in recent history? I’ll let you know the answer in a minute, but I’m asking this question to prove a point, and that point is that too many people get too caught [...]

Pending home sales increased as more buyers took advantage of improved affordability conditions, according to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. Big gains in the South and Midwest offset modest declines in other regions.
The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in December, rose 6.3 percent to 87.7 from an upwardly revised [...]

Here is some hope for those people who would still love to own a home, but do not have the down payment. Read on from the Washington Post:
Despite banks’ reactions to the foreclosure crisis, it’s still possible for a potential homeowner to buy with no money down.
Some options come from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac [...]

Every year various magazines put out their lists of the best places to live. Here is Kiplingers’s version for 2008.
Where are the best cities in the country to live, work, and play? Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine did its best to answer that question in its 2008 Best Cities report.
Kiplinger says it looked for strong economies [...]

On Thursday I wrote that the stimlus package signed by the President which temporarily raises the limit on conforming loans to 729K may not help people buy more house at a lower interest rate.
This is beacuse Wall Street has not figured what to do about this new category of loan. The 417K-729K Fannie Mae and [...]