As consumers, nothing is less welcomed than a phone call right in the middle of dinner asking: Do you want a lower mortgage? Are you happy with your satellite provider? Would you like to consolidate all of your debt into one low monthly payment? The cold call is the exact opposite of what most successful sales people know to be effective: [...]

The Rhode Island Association of Realtors released November sales this week, despite September and Octobers gains, single family homes were down 16.05 % from November, 2007. The bright spot is in the muti-family sector, which saw sales increase by nearly 50%, this is a sign that investors and first-time buyers are definitley returning to [...]

While January is typically a quiet month in the real estate world, it is actually a perfect time for buyers and sellers to do their homework. This is the time of year for would-be sellers, those expecting to put their houses onto the market in the spring, to [...]

Rhode Island Food Culture: Dining, Drinking & Food Stuff Our friend and former sales associate Seth Price has started a wonderful community site entitled - Providence Palate. It's a space for anything related to a passion for food culture in and around Rhode Island. The site has some great modules including: Chat, Forums, Blogs and more. It [...]

If you are a regular listener to Real Estate Insight, you already know that one of my favorite lines when people ask me to predict the state of the market in the near future is "if I only had a crystal ball...." While the immediate outlook looks pretty bleak, I think that the bulk of uncertainty is behind us. We have a new administration [...]

While I am sure that just about everybody will be glad to see the end of 2008, I always like to recap the year in Real Estate, here is a list of the top stories that I felt help to shape the Real Estate world this past year: [...]

East Greenwich celebrated the holiday season with 3 more "strolls". The town is decked to the max and so is Residential Properties Ltd.! We emptied out our conference room and it was turned into a holiday wonderland! All furnishings are on loan from Marianne Mernick-Sullivan at [...]

Residential Properties Ltd. would like to congratulate the winners of this year's "Deck Your Doors" contest. Our first place winner was Karen Bergevine at 735 Nate Whipple Highway, Cumberland. In second place was Maureen Burke at 75 Fairhaven Rd, Cumberland and third place winner was Sheilah Figliolini at 12 Westbrook Way, Cumberland. We saw [...]

MSN recently provided readers with a list of 7 great cities to live in. They also detailed 7 cities to visit. Providence made the list of livable cities, with the author touting the city's "Independent Spirit". To read the full article, click here.