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Louise Bolger

Louise Bolger

August 17, 2017
Louise Bolger is The Sun’s Real Estate columnist.
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May 28, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Everyone’s talking about home prices

I challenge you to enter a room with at least four adult homeowners and not hear the conversation eventually gravitating to the price of homes. Some of the conversation centers on fear that what the…
May 21, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Lower your mortgage rate – it’s possible

Last week the big news was the escalation of mortgage rates and the prediction by the mortgage “experts” that we’re not seeing them being lowered anytime soon. This week we’ll touch on ways to maybe…
May 14, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Buyers losing hope

Tired of waiting for mortgage rates to come down? You’re not alone. Every potential buyer out there is waiting for the same thing, the problem is the Federal Reserve isn’t moving the needle, so it mi…
May 7, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Boomers continue to boom

Just when you think they’re too old to influence the smart, better-educated and computer-savvy younger generations, they raise their grey and balding heads again to remind their kids and grandkids th…
April 30, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Florida insurance ground zero

We are on the brink of hurricane season and this year promises to be an active one, so what goes hand in hand with hurricanes? Insurance. We’re talking here about homeowners’ insurance, although flo…
April 22, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Cost of American dream rising

Owning a home of your own has been the American dream for over 75 years. It’s so embedded in our culture that it can create stress and feelings of low self-worth if you don’t own your own home. Unfor…
April 15, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Prepare for hurricane season

Call me crazy, but whenever the hurricane predictions are disclosed for the impending hurricane season it seems to always be the highest number of storms EVER. Well, this year’s predictions are again…
April 8, 2024
By Louise Bolger

New world of home sales

The world is changing so fast with artificial intelligence, electric and self-driving vehicles and instantaneous information on every subject at our fingertips. For professionals who are members of t…
April 2, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Real estate in earthquake mode

The day I was scheduled to fly home from my visit to the wild, wild west, the news broke that the National Association of Realtors had settled legal claims relative to real estate commissions. When I…
March 26, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Save our homes

This column should be titled “Save our Taxes,” since that’s what we’re really talking about. However, saving on property taxes is part of the Save Our Homes benefits and portability transfers are ano…
March 20, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Energize your home

When you think of energy you probably think of power used to generate light and heat. But have you ever thought of the type of energy that isn’t physical or chemical, the kind that can’t be seen? Wh…
March 12, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Declutter, depersonalize, clean

After perusing what I like to consider my very organized database of columns, I realized it’s been some time since I wrote about getting your house ready for sale. Since we are dead in the middle of…
March 5, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Winter of the big freeze

You should have warmed up from the unusually cold Florida winter. Now the question is, has the housing market unfrozen? The entire country has been gripped in an exceptionally cold and stormy winter…
February 27, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Are mortgage rates really going down?

Did we ever think this day would arrive? Those in the know kept saying rates will be better next year, and this is finally next year, and by golly, it appears they were right. Since nothing is ever t…
February 19, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Insurance premiums painful

There are few things related to the real estate industry that I can’t figure out. That may sound like an overabundance of hubris, but what it is, is decades of experience and mind-bending research. T…