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Welcome to our newly redesigned Home page. Our goals were to add a “News” element (which you will see in this space, updated several times a week with news about retirement communities), as well as to try to keep our most popular features higher up on the page for greater…
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Category: Retirement Real Estate
April 25 - Yesterday the sales figures for existing homes were released - and the news continues to be bad for sellers. Sales in March were 8.4% below February's, and 11.3% behind the March 2006 figure. Bad weather is being blamed for at least part of the slowdown, while sub-prime mortgage problems are another likely cause. These sales totals are for all types of existing homes, including condominiums. The figures were released by the National Association of Realtors.
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Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues
New York - April 27. Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan made headlines again this week - this time at a conference on the coming baby boomer retirement crisis. Greenspan warned that the government is going to find it "difficult" to keep all of its financial promises in coming years. He urged baby boomers to deal now with that, and a new complication - their increased longevity.
We have to recognize that what we're going through is unique in world history, said Dr. Greenspan. Retirement is a relatively new phenomenon. As a society we've dealt with it successfully in the past few decades but we've never had such a huge group of individuals going into the system at once and then living so long in their retirement years.
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Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues
It’s a Great Read Baby boomer nostalgia is hot these days, and there is no funnier read on the subject than Bill Bryson’s delightful book – “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid”. He captures perfectly the times, culture, and the absurd miscellanea of those days – you won’t…
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