This week I spoke with Brad Hyson from the Apeiron Institute for Environmental Living, to talk about Sustainable RI and the Sustainable Energy Festival. If you are a regular listener, you know we have been focusing on environmentally friendly building alternatives and for good reason. The average household produced 12.4 tons of carbon [...]

Well, I can't believe it's May already! It seems like only yesterday that it was New Year's. The first quarter sales statistics came out this week and they offered little in the way of surprises and do not paint the doom and gloom scenario that the wave of "Sub-Prime Tsunami" Propagandists would lead you to believe. Here in Southern New [...]

Since green is the new black, lately I have been helping to promote some of our more Earth Friendly partners in Rhode Island housing. Considering that the United States has only 6% of the world's population but consumes 25% of the world's resources, we really have to start doing everything we can to utilize renewable energy wherever we are [...]

This week Cherie and I were talking with peter Gill Case, founder of Truth Box Architects, a Providence, RI based architecture firm dedicated to sustainable design. Peter's phone has been ringing more and more lately and that's not surprising to me. According to The National Association of Home Builders (NAHAB) more and more of  America's [...]

This week we had Ted Sanderson, the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, to talk about "The 22nd Annual Historic Preservation Conference" being held on April 14, 2007. Which is making the case for adaptive reuse as a fundamentally green strategy. A community can benefit in many ways from [...]

This week Rich and Cherie had Steven Roberts, owner of Full Disclosure Home Inspections. Home inspections have become an integral part of most real estate transactions. 15 years ago, barely 10% of home sales involved home inspections, in 2006, The National Association of Realtor's reported that 77% of all homebuyers obtained a home [...]

This week Cherie and I were in the studio with more back to basics, this time for sellers, so unless you have been in a coma for the past few years, I don’t have to rehash the importance of curb appeal when listing your home, but one important thing we talked about was removing emotion from the equation. You need to think of your house as [...]

This week, Cherie and I got back to basics and talked about first time homebuyers. Comprising 40% of home purchases in the Northeast, first-time buyers play a key role in the housing market. They are the source of new demand for homes and make it possible for owners of entry-level properties to trade up; creating a ripple effect that carries [...]

The internet has changed just about every aspect of our lives. It was about 13 years ago when the first home listing appeared on line. Today Internet listings are such an important part of our industry, it's tough to remember a time when they weren't available. Fortunately, from early on, I had people in my organization that got it and [...]

Late in the closing session of the 109th Congress, The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 was passed by both the House and the Senate though it has not yet been signed by President Bush. Deep within the Act at Section 419 was a one page attachment entitled [...]