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With 78 million baby boomers entering or on the verge of retirement, a concerted national effort is required to adapt homes and communities for the 73 percent of seniors who prefer to age in place, according to a new report released yesterday by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). The preference to grow older in one’s own home and community stems from a desire among many seniors to remain close to family and friends and maintain the social connections that have enriched their lives. They appreciate the familiarity of their own homes as well as that of the local shopping center, the community library, and their place of worship. They want to remain close to doctors, nurses, social workers, and the other professional service providers upon whom they have come to rely, according to research by AARP That’s bad news for the nation’s real estate and housing finance industries, who have been anticipating a flood of transactions from Boomers selling their long-time residences.  But it...

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The owners of this beautiful heritage home had a vision to restore it to its former glory, and enlisted Terri Shannon from Bloom Interior Design & Decoration to help them turn their dream into reality. Shannon describes the home’s style as contemporary classic with a mix of formal rooms and comfortable, inviting spaces. The front of the 1880s home features formal living and dining rooms, while the back contains a relaxed open-plan space. The kitchen and informal living room are the home’s main social spaces, where the kids can play and the family can catch up or entertain around the spacious island. Bloom Interior Design Photos by Armelle Habib Houzz at a Glance Who lives here:  Amanda and Brett McMillian and their 2 young daughters Location:  Melbourne Size:  4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms The homeowners were immediately drawn to this bayside-area home with a picture-perfect white picket fence. The historic home is situated along the tree-lined streets of sout...

Freddie Mac ( OTCQB : FMCC ) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS ® ), showing average fixed mortgage rates following Treasury yields higher and coming off the May jobs report, which largely met forecast expectations. News Facts 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.20 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week ending June 12, 2014 , up from last week when it averaged 4.14 percent. A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 3.98 percent. 15-year FRM this week averaged 3.31 percent with an average 0.5 point, up from last week when it averaged 3.23 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year FRM averaged 3.10 percent. 5-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) averaged 3.05 percent this week with an average 0.4 point, up from last week when it averaged 2.93 percent. A year ago, the 5-year ARM averaged 2.79 percent. 1-year Treasury-indexed ARM averaged 2.40 percent this week with an average 0.4 point...

Halfway through the spring buying season, mortgage applications fell 1.2 percent for the week ending May 21 and the unadjusted Mortgage Bankers Association’s Purchase Index fell even more. It was down 2 percent in just one week–15 percent lower than it was a year ago at this time. Such a decline in borrowing to buy a home in the third week of May is virtually unprecedented, but it corresponds with the anemic sales reports from the National Association of Realtors. Sales are down year over year. April sales are down 6.8 percent from a year ago (see April Sales Disappoint ). Cash sales continue to account for a large percentage of purchases and financed purchases have fallen far below normal even though it’s easier (not a lot easier) to get a mortgage today that it was during the mini-boon of a year ago. According to Ellie Mae’s March data, purchase loans are closing in 41 days compared to 47 days a year ago, some 60.7 percent of applications for purchase loans are approved co...

[One of many hand-painted signs in the hospital's basement. All photos by Charles Giraudet .] 22 images <div class="gallery loaded"><a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/01/inside_roosevelt_islands_abandoned_hospital_predemolition.php"><img src="http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/53627f69f92ea1117500daae/Mortuary Sign - IMG_0463.jpg" width="500" height="379"></a><br /><a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/01/inside_roosevelt_islands_abandoned_hospital_predemolition.php" style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;">Click here to view the full photogallery.</a></div> Trained as an architect in his native France, Charles Giraudet wanted to enter Roosevelt Island's massive Goldwater Hospital ever since he laid eyes on it about two decades ago. Giraudet, now a full-time photographer , got the chance he'd been waiting for in late Decembe...

[Renderings via NBWW] 5 images <div class="gallery loaded"><a href="http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/16/fontainebleau-penthouse-versailles-tower-suites.php"><img src="http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/534ec1c6f92ea1358500fc7b/SHOT2for web.jpg" width="500" height="355"></a><br /><a href="http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/16/fontainebleau-penthouse-versailles-tower-suites.php" style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;">Click here to view the full photogallery.</a></div> The old historical feud between the Fontainebleau and Eden Roc Hotels that produced the Fontainebleau's "Spite Wall" , actually called the Versailles Tower, was more or less resolved years ago. The Eden Roc built a new, Spite Wall-proof pool deck and their own tower to hide the wall's blank whiteness, and they both changed hands to new ownership that didn't ho...

Spring Egg Hunt Moved to the 4/17 Rain Date Due to the rain forecast for Tuesday (4/15), the annual Spring Egg Hunt has been postponed to the rain date of Thursday, April 17th. The Egg Hunt will be held at the FOX LANE HS TURF FIELD (Rte. 172; Bedford) and will kick off with magician Joe Barney at 10:45am. The Egg Hunt will start promptly at 11:15am. Children will be divided into age groups (ages 2-5) (ages 6-7) (ages8-10). After the egg hunt, Joe Barney will continue to perform and the Spring Bunny plans to hop on over for a guest appearance and some photo ops! Thank you! Bedford Recreation 914-666-7004 Upcoming Meetings Meeting agenda and backup materials are available for the following meetings: 4/16 Town Board - Note: This meeting is being held on Wednesday due to the Passover holiday. Reminders: Public Information Session 4/16 @ 8:30pm There will be a public information session on April 16th at 8:30pm at the Town Board monthly meeting regarding...

Over the past couple of weeks, you may have been given the false impression that Richard Cordray and his colleagues at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are working to destroy the US mortgage market. Likewise, you may have the false impression that various consumer groups and advocates are making mortgage lending unattractive as a business for banks and non-banks alike. But the truth of the matter is that even if Richard Cordray was back in Ohio, where he formally served as Attorney General — a reality where the CFPB and said housing groups didn't exist — the US mortgage market would still be in trouble. Were there no CFPB or Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, banks and non-banks alike would be backing away from the mortgage business. The significant withdrawal of players such as Nationstar and Bank of America from retail lending, and the collapse of the mortgage wholesale and correspondent markets, is just the start of a more generalized ret...

Tom Brady soon will become a year-round Bostonian. The New England Patriots quarterback and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, have put their four-acre Los Angeles estate on the market, "real estate sources" told TMZ.com on Wednesday. Brady, a California native, and his family reportedly plan to live full-time in a new, 14,000-square-foot mansion currently under construction in Brookline, Mass. So, if you're looking to live in Brady's house -- one that features such amenities as a waterfall and a moat -- you're in luck. If you can afford the $50 million asking price, that is. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/report-brady-bundchen-put-l-a-mansion-on-market-for-50m-031914

There were 620,111 completed foreclosures across the country in 2013 compared to 820,498 in 2012, a decrease of 24 percent. For the month of December, there were 45,000 completed foreclosures, down from 52,000 in December 2012, a year-over-year decrease of 14 percent, according to CoreLogic .    Completed foreclosures are an indication of the total number of homes actually lost to foreclosure. Since the financial crisis began in September 2008, there have been approximately 4.8 million completed foreclosures across the country. As a basis of comparison, prior to the decline in the housing market in 2007, completed foreclosures averaged 21,000 per month nationwide between 2000 and 2006. As of December 2013, approximately 837,000 homes in the United States were in some stage of foreclosure, known as the foreclosure inventory, compared to 1.2 million in December 2012, a year-over-year decrease of 31 percent. The foreclosure inventory as of December 2013 represented 2.1 perce...

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Can reading a book feel like a visit to a spa? After perusing Karen Lehrman Bloch’s new tome, The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty (Harper Design, $35), I felt strangely cleansed . Its collection of nearly two dozen spare, all-natural houses washes over your senses like a chamomile bath, leaving you feeling calm and relaxed, and ready to toss half of your furnishings into the Dumpster. While Bloch hauls out Mies’ dictum that less is more, this isn’t a book about minimalism. It’s about achieving a feeling of emotional and spiritual uplift by surrounding yourself with things that make you feel good. It’s about appreciating the tactile, taking your cues from nature and embracing a mix — not because it’ll impress your friends or follow fashion, but because it will nurture your soul. (Bloch calls this a “design detox.”) While it all might sound a little woo-woo, there’s no denying the appeal of these spaces, or the credentials of some of the designers represented, including Vicente ...

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Bond oracle Jeff Gundlach and recent Nobel Prize-winner Robert Shiller sat down with Barron's for a joint interview to "size up the world." These guys are, quite simply, two of the sharpest market minds out there right now, so it's especially interesting when their opinions line up. And it seems the two are in agreement over Norway's bubbly, "out of whack" housing market. First, Gundlach serves up some numbery goodness, and then Shiller brings it home with a dose of cerebral cultural commentary. From Barron's : Gundlach: Take a look at Norway if you want to see a country that really looks out of whack. The housing market there has been so strong, and the debt ratios are so high. People don't think about Norway as being that type of a country. But if you look at the charts, it is pretty remarkable. By last June, the Norway housing index had risen 77% from year-end 2004, an all-time high. The U.S. home-price index, by contrast...