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Housing Drives Consumer Spending
Consumer spending is on the rise thanks in large part to an improving housing market.
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Builder Confidence Continues to Improve in August
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes improved for a fourth consecutive month in August with a two-point gain to 37 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), released recently. This gain builds on a six-point increase in July and brings the index to its highest level since February of 2007. “From the builder’s perspective, current sales conditions, sales prospects for the next six months and traffic of prospective buyers are all better than they have been in more than five years,” says Barry Rutenberg, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders ...
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Weekly Video Tip: Golden Hour Calculator

We keep telling you to shoot your exterior footage at “golden hour.” Golden hour this, golden hour that, shoot at golden hour or your footage will look bad! It won’t, but you can take advantage of the natural beauty of the sun’s light by shooting at specific times...
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More Than 95 Percent of Refinancing Borrowers Choose Fixed-Rate Mortgages

In the second quarter of 2012, fixed-rate loans accounted for more than 95 percent of refinance loans, based on the recently released Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) Quarterly Product Transition Report. Refinancing borrowers clearly preferred fixed-rate loans,...
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California is Leading the Recovery

The state that gave America Alt-A loans, the first tidal wave of foreclosures, the highest prices during the boom and the fastest fall during the bust is now leading the nation out of the six-year housing depression. In the second quarter,...
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Gen Y Home Buying is Motivated by Quality of Life

Used to thriving economies and strong employment rates, baby boomers played a critical role in stimulating the housing market prior to the Great Recession, but the economic realities of the last few years have shifted the focus to Generation Y and real...
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Hot OfficeTrend: Standing Desks
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(MCT)—At Groupon’s Chicago office, it’s easy to look up to Joel Hadley. During most of his eight-hour-plus workday, Hadley stands at his desk, his head more than a foot above seated colleagues.
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