How strange. Just yesterday I wrote and said not to get too excited over home prices rising, and the next day a report comes out saying sales of new homes dropped drastically. Then the Commerce Department comes out with a report saying that new home sales dropped 3.6% in September, the first decrease since March, [...]

Leave it up to the National Association of Home Builders to make me feel good about where I live. Last Thursday, they put out their list of the top ten most affordable and top ten least affordable cities to live in throughout the United States. And my home area, Syracuse NY, sits at number six [...]