Category: Retirement Real Estate
November 12 -- One of America's household names in construction, Levitt Corp, announced last week that its Levitt & Sons LLC division has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The division built retirement communities for baby boomers. In making its move the company cited cited "unprecedented conditions in the home-building industry" that were "particularly sudden and steep" in Florida and the Southeast.
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Published on November 12, 2007
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Category: International Retirement
November 8 -- One of our favorite radio show talk hosts, Diane Rehm, recently had a great program called U.S. Expatriates in Mexico and Beyond. Use this link to listen as she and her fascinating guests discuss this topic that interests so many retirees.
Diane's November 6, 2007 show explored how reverse migration appears to be on the rise as more Americans relocate and retire abroad. She and her guests took a look at what drives their decision and what life is like once they take the leap.
Her guests included: Caren Cross, who made the documentary
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Published on November 8, 2007
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Category: Retirement Real Estate
November 5 — Here at Topretirements.com we spend a lot of time writing about why college towns make such great retirement communities. Now there’s yet another reason to choose a college town to retire in – they are much less likely to be involved in the sub-prime mortgage mess that…
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Published on November 5, 2007
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Category: Green Retirement Communities
November 3 — Imagine a community that is being developed by the Dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin, Victor Sidy, along with 6 apprentices at the famous school. For one thing, you can be sure the community will balance well with the environment, and is…
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Published on November 3, 2007
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Category: Retirement Real Estate
The Baer House Inn in Vicksburg MS
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Published on October 28, 2007
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Category: General Retirement Issues
October 22 -- If you have been looking for a way to take more college courses - either offered in a nearby community college or in your active adult community - you might be interested in a new grant from the The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The $3.2 million grant was created by The Atlantic Philanthropies to create or expand programs to serve 50-plus Americans at select community colleges around the nation. The colleges, which will be selected through a competitive process, will help to identify and promote best practices in serving the "older adult learner".
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Published on October 22, 2007
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Category: Green Retirement Communities
October 17 -- Environmentally oriented retirement communities are beginning to earn a toehold in this country. But the pressure for green communities and for energy and environmental conservation is really coming from the people who live in retirement communities -- more so than from the developers. A recent study from the Mediamark Research BoomerView study found that 40.7% of baby boomers say "Preserving the Environment" is a very important guiding principle in their lives (that is 11% higher than reported by all adults). A good example of green (sustainable) retirement communities are the cohousing projects for baby boomers that are being built in the American West.
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Published on October 17, 2007
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Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues
October 15 -- Ask 10 baby boomers what they are looking for in retirement communities and you are likely to come up with dozens of different answers. Baby boomers are used to marching to their own drummers, and there is no reason that their choices in retirement communities will be any different. This article draws from a number of different sources and is intended to provide a representative sample of different opinions.
Golf attracts many to active adult communities
Amenities. Here are some of the top amenities found in a survey done in 2000 by the National Association of Home Builders:
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Published on October 15, 2007
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Category: Retirement Real Estate
October 8 -- Competition for the dollars of the newly retired is heating up, and it seems like Florida could be the state that takes the biggest hit. The Sunshine State, always popular for its retirement communities, has seen a number of negative factors that are increasingly deflecting retirees to other states in the Sunbelt.Retirement in Luxurious Fort Lauderdale
Some of the Florida downsides include overcrowding and traffic, increasing real estate costs (64% higher than just 5 years ago), a spate of devastating hurricanes, and ever-increasing insurance costs related to those hurricanes. The current housing bust is about as bad in Florida as anywhere.
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Published on October 8, 2007
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Category: Baby Boomer Retirement Issues
October 1 — A new Harris Poll on state living preferences found that baby boomers (aged 43 – 61) would prefer to live in Hawaii over all other states. In this regard they differ from the rest of the U.S. population, which would choose California. Although it was not…
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Published on October 1, 2007
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