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Help sellers avoid costly wintertime repairs The last thing your client needs is a major home maintenance malfunction brought on by freezing temps. With many properties staying on the market longer, make sure your sellers are prepped for the long winter ahead. Full Story: REALTOR® Magazine/The Lounge (12/1)
Advisers: Follow a structure to ease content creation Adequate research and planning make writing flow quickly and easily, as the first of three stages for content creation, marketing advisers Ann Handley and Michael Stelzner write. In addition, their framework provides a foundation for writing and editing marketing content. Full Story: Social Media Examiner (12/1)
Concrete home in Mexico designed with landscape in mind Casa Ventura, a hilltop home in Monterrey, Mexico, is a cluster of intersecting pentagonal spaces designed by Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao. Chosen as part of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series in collaboration with Holcim, the home was molded to the irregular topography and made from raw concrete due to structural requirements and climactic conditions. Full Story: Dezeen (12/1)
How mass timber can help ease housing shortage A four-story transitional housing complex in Kitchener, Ontario, was completed in just one year, illustrating how mass timber can contribute to relieving the housing shortage, Matt Bolen, principal with EDGE Architects, said during the 2022 Toronto Wood Solutions Conference. Bolen explained how lightweight cross-laminated timber panels achieve cost efficiencies. Full Story: Daily Commercial News (Ontario) (11/30)
FDIC: Banks' net income rose 3.2% in Q3 U.S. banks posted a total of $71.7 billion in net income in the third quarter, a 3.2% year-over-year increase, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. However, FDIC acting Chair Martin Gruenberg said future profit likely will face pressure from inflation, heightened interest rates and geopolitical challenges. Full Story: Reuters (12/1)
Fed's Bowman: Interest rates must be restrictive enough The personal consumption expenditures price index, which is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve, gained 6% year over year in October, down from the 6.3% figure from September. Meanwhile, Fed Governor Michelle Bowman reiterated the idea that the Fed should slow the course of its rate hikes but said that monetary policy would have to be restrictive enough to fully tame inflation. Full Story: The Associated Press (12/1),The New York Times (12/1),Reuters (12/1),MarketWatch (tiered subscription model) (12/1)
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