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After hurricane Sandy destroyed Mary Jane Liu’s home in Westport, Connecticut, she found herself with the opportunity to build a house perfectly suited to her family’s needs. It was also a chance to build a house that was very energy efficient and as low maintenance as possible, in the modern farmhouse style she loved. Liu found some plans that appealed to her online, then took them to her architect, Ann Lathrop, to adjust them to work with her nonconforming lot and to have a more modern, open layout that would best work for her family. Bensonwood Photos (except for the crane shot) by Stacy Bass Photography Houzz at a Glance Who lives here:  Mary Jane Liu and her teenage daughter. Her two adult sons visit often. Location:  Westport, Connecticut Size:  2,400 square feet (223 square meters); 4 bedrooms, 3 ½  baths Because Liu was in a hurry to rebuild while the Federal Emergency Management Agency was still helping her cover the rent at her temporary home,...

These days the kitchen is the most important room in the house. We’re constantly calling it our main hub, where we cook fresh meals, entertain guests, do homework, post messages and, yes, every now and then watch TV. But with the increased focus on function comes a lot of stuff that needs fixing, replacing, tweaking, cleaning and organizing. For that you’ll need to arm yourself with some kitchen knowledge so you can stay on top of what’s most important. Here are 19 projects good for every home dweller to know about.   ExpressDecor Save Photo 1. Choose a new kitchen sink. Is there anything in your kitchen that gets used as much as your sink? Doubtful. That’s why it’s important to choose the right one — size, width, style — for your space.       read more....         http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/31516989?utm_source=Houzz&utm_campaign=u643&utm_medium=email&utm_content=gallery2  

Freddie Mac ( OTCQB : FMCC ) released today its U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for August showing the country getting back to a more normalized economy, and therefore expecting to see housing driven once again by fundamentals. The complete August 2014 U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook and forecast table are available here . Outlook Highlights After several years of weakness we are starting to see the labor market pick up steam having added 230,000 net new jobs on average for the first seven months of this year. The Census Bureau reported that over the past four quarters, net household formations totaled only 458,000, compared with long-term projections by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of 1.2 to 1.3 million per year. The number of persons per household has increased by 2.6 percent since 2005, going from 2.69 to 2.76 persons per household. If the persons per household had held steady over that period there would be an additional 3 milli...

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hen it came to designing a contemporary second home for a Chicago-area family, architect Bill Bickford looked to an old barn on their 200-acre working farm in Wisconsin. The farm has been in the family for more than 25 years, and they had forged a strong connection to the property. “When you look out to the surroundings, you see beautiful old oaks, barns and silos dotting the landscape,” he says. Bickford designed a home that’s both contemporary and technologically advanced, and also fits the rural context and the family’s desire for wide-open spaces, family gatherings and relaxing weekends. Houzz at a Glance Who lives here: This is a second home of a family with young children. Location: The countryside west of Madison, Wisconsin Size: 4,500 square feet (418 square meters); 3 bedrooms plus bunk room, 3 ½ bathrooms Photography by Werner Straube Photography Northworks Architects and Planners Save to Ideabook Email Photo The old barn, near the top of one of the rollin...

The Mount Kisco Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 7, at 7 p.m. in Village Hall to consider the adoption of the 2014-15 proposed budget. The complete proposed budget can be downloaded by clicking here. Mount Kisco Village Hall is at 104 Main St. http://mtkisco.dailyvoice.com/news/mount-kisco-hold-public-hearing-village-budget

recent_searches federal housing finance agency / florida ends foreclosure mediation program / citigroup jobs / broker compensation / u s department housing urban development REwired   Monday Morning Cup of Coffee takes a look at news crossing HousingWire's weekend desk, with more coverage to come on bigger issues. Black Knight Financial Services' "First Look" at February 2014 data Black Knight, formerly Lender Processing Services , report on mortgage performance in February include the following highlights: The number of loans in foreclosure has dropped by more than 500K since last year (1.24M as of Feb.) There are now nearly 1 million fewer non-current mortgages since last February (4.1M as of Feb). The roughly 92K foreclosure starts in February marked a 30% year-over-year decline. The monthly prepayment rate (historically a good indicator of refinance activity) declined almost 64% year-over-year. Mississippi, Nevada & Rhode I...

More sellers are now putting their homes on the market than at this time last year, according to the latest National Housing Trend Report from realtor.com®. Inventories of homes for sale rose 10% year-over-year to 1.744 million units, indicating increasing seller optimism and a strong, early beginning to the spring home-buying season, according to the report’s February data.    The median list price of $199,000 was 7.6% higher than it was during the same month last year, while the median age of inventory increased 6.5% above last year’s figures, to 114 days. “Overall, these figures indicate a continued reinforcement of steady gains and market stabilization that we’ve been watching since late last summer,” said Steve Berkowitz, CEO of Move Inc., the parent company of realtor.com®. “Seller confidence is the factor to watch as we head into the spring home-buying season, and these are very encouraging indicators—not only are more homes coming onto the market, but typically ...

Do you blog regularly? Are you looking for tools to make the process easier? Blogging is hard work and it takes a lot of time to do it well. Wouldn’t it be great if you could streamline parts of that process? In this article, you’ll find a list of tools, apps and advice you can use to find your groove and take care of blogging business . #1: Brainstorm Blogging Ideas When you need inspiration for your next blog post, where do you go? You can avoid blogger’s block by trying out these idea-generators to quickly get your creative juices flowing. How to Use Quora to Cook Up Great Content : Adrienne Erin writes a pretty inspiring post about scanning Quora to find popular conversations and using those topics to create blog content. Don’t Know What to Write About? Get Ideas From the Blog Topic Generator [Free Tool] : Ginny Soskey introduces HubSpot’s handy new topic generator. You simply put in three terms (nouns) you’d like to blog about and the tool spits out several topics . Of ...

Tracy's Credit Tip of the Month Wells Fargo gears towards the subprime mortgage market. What does that mean for home buyers, realtors, bankers, and other finance professionals? With the refinance boom coming to an end and banks looking to find new ways to increase profits subprime loans are becoming a new focus. Wells Fargo, the mortgage leader, will now embrace subprime loans, which means other banks are sure to follow. In the past Wells Fargo would not even entertain a loan if the FICO score was less than 640 but now they are looking at scores of 600 and up. Due to a loss in profits of the dwindling refinance market banks are beginning to lean towards business lending and subprime loans. How will this impact those looking to purchase real estate? There are many individuals who have not been able to qualify for a loan in the past 3 or more years due to a loss of income and poor credit scores. Most mortgage banks were not interested in working with these indiv...

The combination of tough new rules denying qualified mortgages to applicants without the ability to repay and soaring study loan debt may be doing more than anything else to shut an entire generation out of homeownership. First-time buyer market share has fallen to 27 percent in recent months. Rising prices, thin inventories of starter homes, rising down payment requirements and tight lending standards have made it hard on first-timers trying to climb the first rung of the homeownership ladder. A news analysis by an economist at the National Association of Realtors suggests that student debt, which is now the second largest component of household debt next to mortgage debt, may have a depressing effect on home sales for years to come due a provision in the new QM rule, which took effect last month. The QM rule requires a consumer to have a debt to income ratio of no more than 43 percent including mortgage payments, will not make buying a home an easier for debt-straddled college...

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"(The) single-family rental market is becoming a new asset class. Blackstone , Colony , Deutschebank are all investing billions," said moderator Sharif Mahdavian, managing director for Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. "So how is it affecting the mortgage environment?" "It looks to us like a viable business," said Joseph Buonanno, a partner with Hunton & Williams. "Whether this is cyclical or temporary, or the new new thing, I think it’s probably too early to say we will change decades of history and change to a rental society." Steven Abrahams, head of securitization and mortgage-backed securities research at Deutsche Bank Securities , says he sees this trend as an anomaly. He says the flood of capital to the rental side just reflects the withdrawal of capital from the mortgage side. "As the population grows and rates of household formation rebound to normal, we will see a return of owner occupant capital," Abr...

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Advocates of immigration reform argue it will build housing demand and invigorate home prices, but the jury is still out as to just how much of an impact increased Immigration will have on future housing demand. A recent blog post by Jessica Dill, senior economic research analyst in the Atlanta Fed’s research department, explores new research on how immigration affects housing demand. According to a September 2010 working paper by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, an increase of between 11.8 million and 13.8 million households, depending on whether you use low- or high-immigration assumptions, is projected between 2010 and 2020, she wrote. Likewise, Dowell Myers and John Pitkin prepared a report earlier this year for the Research Institute for Housing America projecting an increase of 12.8 million households between 2010 and 2020, of which immigrants account for 4.12 million, or 32.2 percent. Looking back to previous decades, Myers and Pitkin note that the 4.03 mil...

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