This week Cherie and I had the honor of speaking with my friend Nicolas Retsinas, the Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. You may know him as the former Executive Director of the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation from 1987 to 1993. Nicolas P. Retsinas was appointed Director of Harvard [...]

More home owners entered the foreclosure process during the first three months of 2007 than the final quarter of 2006, according to a report by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The MBA’s Chief Economist Doug Duncan predicts that delinquencies would continue to rise, peaking later this year. The percentage of loans in foreclosure would be [...]

This week Cherie and I were in the studio talking about marketing your home. If your house is on the market, and you wonder why your Realtor is not selling it, let me tell you this; price and condition dictate the sale, if it is not in great condition, then that should be reflected in the price. The problem with this reasoning is that with [...]

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 [...]