Home Improvement

How to Create a Kid-Approved Bedroom

For a child, a bedroom is more than just a place to sleep. It’s a room to do schoolwork, listen to music, play games, sprawl on the floor, rough-house, read, build models, daydream, visit with friends, and keep innumerable possessions. You’ll need to plan carefully to create a space that serves all those functions, yet is comfortable

How to Create a Kid-Approved Bedroom

For a child, a bedroom is more than just a place to sleep. It’s a room to do schoolwork, listen to music, play games, sprawl on the floor, rough-house, read, build models, daydream, visit with friends, and keep innumerable possessions. You’ll need to plan carefully to create a space that serves all those functions, yet is comfortable

CoreLogic: Home prices grew more than 7% in November

Home price growth isn’t letting up anytime soon as the latest report from CoreLogic shows prices increased by 7.1% in November 2016 compared to a year ago. And the trend is predicted to continue into 2017. The rise in home prices is a continuation from last month, which posted a 6.7% rise in home prices,

Home Buyers: 5 Things to Know As You Wait for Closing Day

For some home buyers, the closing day for a real estate purchase is as formal and complicated as the transaction itself. For others, it’s just a blip on the radar. Either way, there are some important things to keep in mind as you make your way to homeownership. Your mortgage rate could expire Mortgage interest rates

Home Buyers: 5 Things to Know As You Wait for Closing Day

For some home buyers, the closing day for a real estate purchase is as formal and complicated as the transaction itself. For others, it’s just a blip on the radar. Either way, there are some important things to keep in mind as you make your way to homeownership. Your mortgage rate could expire Mortgage interest rates

Here are HousingWire’s top 10 articles of 2016

[Update 1: It’s now 2017, be sure to date your checks correctly!] Well, we’ve almost made it. 2016 is almost over. This year has been, well, a year unlike any other. Anyone checking their chosen social media feed lately, whether its Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, or any other site, probably see a fair share of people ready

Home Improvement Quiz: What’s Your DIY IQ?

When it comes to completing projects around the house, it’s no secret that some of us have a harder time than others. Maybe you can’t tell your ratchet from your monkey wrench – or perhaps you’ve got an expert grasp on when to choose a C-clamp instead of a pipe clamp. Now’s your chance to see how

Home Improvement Quiz: What’s Your DIY IQ?

When it comes to completing projects around the house, it’s no secret that some of us have a harder time than others. Maybe you can’t tell your ratchet from your monkey wrench – or perhaps you’ve got an expert grasp on when to choose a C-clamp instead of a pipe clamp. Now’s your chance to see how

[Infographic] This is how to stop your house from getting hacked

As technology improvements rapidly increase, so does the risk of getting hacked. Yes, a new WiFi-capable refrigerator and wearable watch sound super fancy and high tech, but they’re also the perfect back doors for cyber attackers. So now, as technology improves, so must your awareness of how to protect yourself against the new, modern thief — hackers.

Case-Shiller: Home prices rise in October, threaten affordability

Home prices continued to steadily increase in October, and the higher prices go, the more unaffordable the housing market becomes. According to the latest data released Tuesday by S&P Dow Jones Indices and CoreLogic, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, which covers all nine U.S. census divisions, posted a 5.6% annual gain in October,