Home Star, the White House-backed plan to provide billions of dollars in incentives for home energy retrofits, now has a sibling — this one focused on larger buildings. Two U.S. senators introduced a bill yesterday that would provide up to $6 billion in rebates and tax incentives for a broad range of energy-saving features added […]
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5% rebound in Home Prices in just February
March 4, 2010 – 4:38 am
Could inflation be starting or just a return to normal values?
US home prices climbed 5% in February from a year ago, despite an incoming wave of REOs that could saddle the market for another three years, according to the Clear Capital Home Data Index.
Prices grew on a yearly basis for the first two months of […]
Fiscal Conservative Tree Hugger: Going Green
February 28, 2010 – 8:46 am
A friend recently described me as a ‘fiscal conservative tree hugger’ and its the first political label I have felt comfortable wearing since my “Olie North was Right” button. Not to digress, but North said the most dangerous man in the world was Osama Bin Laden, many years before any of us knew…
And so it […]
The Extend & Pretend Conference: IMN Distressed Real Estate
February 27, 2010 – 3:16 pm
No it isn’t some conference of sex coaching, it was a group of bankers (including Fannie Mae) and real estate investors who gathered this week in Miami for the IMN Distressed Real Estate Conference, and frankly, it was a little depressing.
The debate seemed to revolve around lender’s decisions to ‘extend loans and pretend that the […]
Big $avings in Small Bulbs
February 18, 2010 – 2:58 pm
LED Saving Solutions is a an LED lighting company that offers a savings share <http://www.ledsavingsolutions.com/retrofits/savings-share> program where a company could switch to more energy efficient LED lighting at no ($0) investment and start saving on an average of 80% off the lighting bill from day 1. Under this savings share program LED Saving Solutions fronts […]
