If you’re thinking about bringing in a pro to help maintain your space, you need to ask the right questions to find the right person. Witthaya Prasongsin / Getty Images Hiring anyone to do work in your house takes careful consideration. Even if they come with stellar references, it can still feel nerve-wracking to open your door and let someone into your personal space. As a professional...

A slew of new bathroom accessories from the Better Homes & Gardens collection at Walmart are here to take your washroom from dull to dreamy. Walmart If you’ve been looking to achieve a luxurious, spa-like feel for your bathroom, you’re in luck. The Better Homes & Gardens collection at Walmart offers a lineup of bathroom products that will completely transform any bathroom, no remodel...

Located in rural Vermont, this new pool and pavilion are surrounded by fields and woods, with Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains beyond. The very active, hockey-loving family who lives here wanted to make the most of their yard while enjoying the pastoral scenes around them. Their...

The primary shareholders of REcolorado — the Denver Metro Association of Realtors (DMAR) and the South Metro Denver Realtor Association (SMDRA) — have fired the current board and announced the name of the company they are selling their shares to: MAZL, LLC., headed by J. Burks. According to a statement released Friday from DMAR and SMDRA, their board members have “signed and submitted a...

Homeowners 62 and older saw their collective home equity levels rise in the first quarter of 2024 by roughly $328.5 billion to a total of $13.19 trillion, a recovery after decreases observed over the past year. This is according to the Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI), a measure of senior-held home equity maintained by the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) and data analytics firm...

For many, summertime in northern New Hampshire is the perfect opportunity to get back to nature, relax lakeside and generally slow down a little. According to local real estate agents, the region’s housing market seems to have read the same memo, as June did not bring the same market boost as many have grown accustomed to. “There isn’t a whole lot of time during the year where it is super slow...

After initially announcing the development of a new Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)-backed Securities (HMBS) program in January, government-owned company Ginnie Mae — which oversees the government’s mortgage-backed securities (MBS) portfolio — released a highly anticipated term sheet this week for what is being referred to as “HMBS 2.0.” To get a better understanding of the newly...

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Turns out you can buy a Jasmine Roth-designed home OR you can buy the star decorator’s own home. The HGTV star has just listed her cozy and impeccably designed residence — dubbed the Roth Homestead — for $6,450,000 (with Kevin Via at Compass), making the announcement official on her Insta channel as well. Set in the surf-friendly seaside city of Huntington Beach, Roth’s newly completed...

It might be time to cut back on your living space—and expenses—but you don’t have to downsize everything: With fun sizing you can lean into your passions, too. Better Homes & Gardens The expectation used to be that when people retired and became empty nesters, it was time to downsize from their family homes into smaller, more manageable houses, condos, and apartments. But times have...