The Don Edam Group's Blog

The folks over at Springwise point us to a great new tool for for coordinating family schedules.....Launched about a year ago, Cozi Central is an online service that helps busy families manage schedules, appointments, shopping and communications from wherever they are-the kitchen, car, office or ...

According to a new release from Borrell Associates, real estate agents, who initially tried to appease home sellers by advertising more on traditional channels, this year cut their print budgets and pushed more money into the Web. Total ad spending on real estate has declined 3 percent this year,...

Even if you're a fiscally conservative homeowner, you may be feeling the pressure of high housing costs, particularly if you have a mortgage with a rate that's headed up or if your income has taken a hit. Kiplinger.com offers this advice about what to do if your home is on the line:Spot trouble e...

Real estate may be all about location, location, location, as the old saying goes, but most rental apartment listings offer very little information on that critical point. A new apartment search website called Hubbuzz hopes to fill that gap by giving rental-hunters a way to get a better feel for ...

Recently media attention has been heavily focused on the difficulties home sellers face with the current glut of inventory and the tightening of the sub-prime mortgage market. However, according to a Fall member survey and report released by NAEBA in November 2007, home buyers are also facing new...

 One of LA's most unusual homes: This pioneering work of vertically interconnected spaces defies domestic convention, using ideas once promoted in The Whole Earth Catalog now staples of architecture and sustainable design. Flexible live-work arrangements are accommodated within the lower levels, ...

It's been a long time since single adulthood was just a hurried way station between adolescence and marriage. Today the median age of first marriage is rising for both men and women, and singles make up 41% of American adults 18 and over. In fact, most Americans can expect to spend fully half of ...

True, lenders are getting a little testy, but here's some advice from Alex Markels of U.S. News & World Report on making it easier to get that home loan you need:With house prices falling and inventory surging, it might seem that home buyers have it made.But lending standards have tightened, and ...

Here's a look at the status of interest rates on two of the five common consumer banking products and the latest rates from Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large banks and thrifts conducted Nov. 21, 2007:HOME EQUITYRates: 7.62 percent (line of credit); 8.04 percent (loan) Rates on home e...

   It's not over, folks. There's plenty of pain left to come for homeowners and investors already battered and bruised by the subprime-mortgage meltdown.Consider that analyst Mike Mayo of Deutsche Bank predicted Monday that worldwide losses from bad subprime-mortgage loans will reach as much as $...