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Mortgage Report: A Trade War With China Will Impact Mortgage Rates

By Joanna England | April 9, 2018 |

The Dow was down last week after news broke regarding President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs totaling billions in the simmering trade war with China. Meanwhile, bonds rallied — at the expense of the stock market. Our most-trusted mortgage expert, Bob Johnson (AKA BobMortgage), the senior mortgage adviser at the nation’s oldest private lender — Wallick…

On SecondShelters.com: What’s New in Quintana Roo?

By Valerie Jarvie | April 9, 2018 |

  La Amada Residences in Playa Mujeres, a secluded seaside resort area on the northeast coast of Yucatán Peninsula just north of Cancun, has a deal for you. New owners have invested big in the residential and rental community and have many units with a modern new look to sell. They are unveiling a new beach…

Magnificent Highland Park Tudor Revival

By Karen Eubank | April 9, 2018 |

Our Monday Morning Millionaire is an exquisite 1929 Highland Park Tudor Revival at 4312 Lorraine Avenue. We spend a lot of time researching these homes to bring you the history and details, but we are stumped by which brilliant builder or architect might have been involved. Jon D. Carsey & Robert Linskie built the O.W.…

On SecondShelters.com: Historic Hot Springs Home Offers Vacation Mode for All – Even the Dogs

By Bethany Erickson | April 8, 2018 |

If you’ve been looking for a second home that can accommodate a family — even the furry ones — and has plenty of amenities to offer at home and in the area, this week’s historical shelter in Hot Springs, Arkansas, may be for you. Built in 1918 for D.D. King as a summer home, this…

This Hollywood Heights English Tudor is a Designer’s Dream

By Karen Eubank | April 7, 2018 |

Seldom do you find a home that has been beautifully renovated, yet retains so many original details. Our Saturday Six Hundred is a Hollywood Heights English Tudor at 707 Cordova. It’s one of the best examples we have seen in many years of how to properly take a 1933 home into this century and yet…

Preston Tower Apparently Wants to Shift Things Away from HOA and to Owners… Even Maintenance!

By Candy Evans | April 6, 2018 |

This came across my desk today from whom, I don’t know. All I know is, it sounds kine of strange. It sounds like Preston Tower, one of two condominium towers in the sizzling hot ‘hood at Northwest Highway and Preston, aka “Behind the Pink Wall”, wants to shift costs away from the HOA and onto…