You may notice that we don’t run certain types of stories very often here. For example, "Experts predict…" pieces. Why not? Because expert predictions about economic matters are nonsense. Take a story appearing today on … [Read more...]

It took a while, but Jon Stewart finally got around to doing a segment on the Mortgage Electronic Registration system. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook … [Read more...]

VAR launched two Realtor image commercials today.  The spots have received great feedback so far. We are testing them first in the Richmond market and hope to continue to air around the state in the near future. One is focused on the Realtor pledge … [Read more...]

We’ve been saying for a long time how important the housing industry is to the economy — how every home sold has a major and positive effect on industries far and wide. Well here’s a great chart that makes that point crystal clear. … [Read more...]

If you sign up to support a Virginia branch of the Young Professionals Network by Wednesday, May 8, you’ll get a free account with the real estate-focused Wellcome Mat video-sharing site. That’s it: Say you support YPN just by filling out … [Read more...]

From Nat Geo: Jamestown archaeologists have discovered the first evidence of cannibalism by desperate colonists driven by hunger during the Starving Times of 1609-1610, at the first permanent English settlement in the New World. [shudder] … [Read more...]