Follow these simple steps to clean your range hood of stubborn, stuck-on grease. Getty Images / Kinga Krzeminska Range hoods capture grease, smoke, and other air pollutants to keep your kitchen safe while cooking. If you don’t clean your range hood periodically, buildup diminishes the range hood’s effectiveness and can pose a fire hazard. This guide explains how to get rid of grease on your...

It’s never too early to get in the holiday spirit with an artificial Christmas tree. Amazon While Christmas may still be a few months away, it’s never too early to get in the spirit and start planning your holiday decorations. Now is actually a great time to buy your Christmas tree, as Amazon is offering some deep discounts for Labor Day weekend.While many of us grew up with the tradition of...

Miami-based Global Listings and The World Property Journal are excited to announce this week a new strategic partnership with the Las Vegas Realtors (LVR) association. Under these new two new partnership programs, both companies will now offer LVR members a series of discounted Member Benefit Services. These services include Real Estate News Feed Services for their websites and Real Estate Press Release...

According to new data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau, sales of newly built, single-family homes in July 2024 rose 10.6% to a 739,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate from significant upward revisions in June 2024. The pace of new home sales in July is up 5.6% from a year earlier. After the notably higher revisions for the May and June data, new home...

Mortgage market conditions presented over the past two years have muted the effectiveness of the monetary policy tightening by saving $600 billion for homeowners, accounting for about 2% of personal consumption spending since 2022, according to a report by two Swiss Re Institute senior economists.  “A dollar not spent on mortgage payments is a dollar free to spend elsewhere. This helps explain why...

Vetted by HousingWire  |  Our editors independently review the products we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably already seen North Carolina Realtor Mike Hege’s mega-viral video or his interview on Today.com. But did it move the needle for his business, or was it just a flash in the proverbial pan? To find...

Despite the overwhelming desire among the baby boomer generation for aging in place in their current homes, practical challenges like living costs and elevated home prices appear to be leading more older people to cohabitation with roommates, or “boommates.” This is according to a column published this week by NextAvenue. “As home prices rise and property taxes and insurance bills soar, it’s...

Chris Bruser, a reverse mortgage professional in Florida, agreed with an assertion that most people do not dream of entering the reverse mortgage business when they’re kids. But success can have a major impact on young people when they’re exposed to what it can look like, and this much was true for Bruser as a teenager when he worked at a country club as a golf caddy. These early interactions with...

Fintech Calque rolled out an affordable version of its Buy Before You Sell program that enables homeowners to remove home sale contingencies and debt-to-income (DTI) constraints. Dubbed the “Contingency Buster,” the product uses its Purchase Price Guarantee (PPG), a binding backup contract that if a homebuyer’s current home does not sell within 150 days, the fintech will purchase it at an...

Hulu’s star-studded mystery/comedy series, Only Murders in the Building, is one of the streaming platform’s biggest hits, with critics and audiences alike tuning in to see whodunit. The show’s silly approach to true crime obsessives is at once hilarious and insightful, thanks in large part to its extremely charming central trio — played by legendary comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short,...