Thursday, September 4, 2014

Natural Disasters and Your Home

Natural disasters are in the news lately, with recent forest fires and earthquakes in Oregon and California, and a general increase in severe weather. What can you do to prepare your home for natural disasters? What are the biggest concerns in your area?

House Logic has a useful overview, from tips for securing your home to the costs of disaster insurance: Infographic: Preparing Your Home for a Natural Disaster

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Predicting the Future of Housing Markets

Is there any local market that predicts national trends? It turns out that Minneapolis-St. Paul does the best at indicating where the housing market is probably going - or at least it did for the overall trends from 1980-2014. Other markets did better for other time periods.

Click through to read this article and find out which markets are furthest off from the trends, and which others were close: Can Any Local Market Predict National Home-Price Trends?