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Home buying and selling mistakes
We're coming up one of the housing market’s peak buying and selling times. With that in mind, what are the biggest mistakes made by both sellers and buyers? For sellers, I find the number one mistake they make is in selecting an agent. If you're interviewing agents, don’t list with ...
Real estate recovery highlighted by return of the Porta Potty!
It's one of the most oddball metrics I've ever seen of the housing recovery: The portable toilet business is booming once again thanks to new construction making a comeback. Call it the Porta Potty index! So many Porta Potties had been in storage when the housing market collapsed. Central Florida ...
Pre-fab construction comes to commercial real estate
Pre-fabricated construction is finding a small but growing niche in commercial real estate. Using CAD (computer-aided design), it's now possible to build the components of an office building, a retail store, or even a hospital in a factory and then assemble the parts on site. Doing so yields much lower ...
Increase in home equity bodes well for worker mobility
Equity in homes is going up for the first time since the real estate bust began. That's a clear sign of recovery in so many places. One third of Americans who have a home now own it free and clear, according to the latest data from Zillow. The cities where ...
Sandwich generation impacts home sales, building trends
Get ready to take a bite out of the great American sandwich! As if raising children weren't hard enough, many of us are now taking on financial responsibility for parents too. The sandwich generation -- a term that describes those homeowners who are getting hit with money obligations arising from ...
The economics of solar are becoming more favorable
I feel very strongly that we as a country can do so much more on the energy independence front than we've done. We've only just begun with our exploration and conservation efforts. I believe we need a national policy of having our truck fleets run on natural gas. Natural gas ...
Pre-fab building technology goes green to save you green
The promise of net zero energy homes is getting more affordable thanks to the marriage of green technologies with prefab building. A California builder named Steve Glenn who was once doing ultra-high end homes has now turned his attention to lower-priced homes that are designed on a computer and are ...
Clark rebuilds in Joplin, MO - May 2012
Marking the one-year anniversary of the Joplin tornado, Clark Howard returned to the decimated Missouri city to build a Habitat for Humanity home during a special day of reconstruction and healing. The consumer champ is building alongside hundreds of volunteers pouring in from across the country. The May 22 build ...
Real estate recovery is local
Real estate is going back to being local in a big way, according to a new report from Kiplinger. In an article titled 'A Tale of Two Housing Recoveries,' Kiplinger paints a picture of a nation where 30 to 38 states are having a meaningful recovery at the same that ...
Clark broadcasts from his 17th annual Habitat for Humanity build
Welcome to a special broadcast of The Clark Howard Show. I'm on location today at the site of my 17th annual build with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity. We're doing two new homes in Atlanta, marking my 44th and 45th homes as a sponsor. Come May, I'll be sponsoring another home, ...
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