Robyn A. Friedman
Business Journalist and Columnist at Freelance
Business journalist, specializing in real estate and personal finance. Wall Street Journal columnist. Dog lover. Yogi. Also on Threads.
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2 weeks ago |
realestate.usnews.com | Robyn A. Friedman |Liisa Rajala |Dawn Bradbury
Key Takeaways There are pros and cons to hiring a friend as your real estate agent. With a friend, there’s already trust, plus the agent is familiar with how you live and your needs and wants. But working with a friend can risk the relationship, so if there’s any doubt or hesitancy, hire someone else. It’s essential to vet any agent you consider working with, friend or not. Libby Von Bargen and Cari McGee have been friends since 2008.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Robyn A. Friedman
Do you feel stuck in your home? Perhaps you purchased what you thought was a starter home, but when you tried to buy a bigger place, you discovered you were priced out of the market. Considering that the median sales price of a single-family home in Greater Boston was $883,000 in February 2025 — up almost 13 percent year-over-year, according to the Greater Boston Association of Realtors — many wannabe move-up buyers are finding themselves stuck at home.
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2 weeks ago |
boston.com | Robyn A. Friedman |Kaitlyn Johnston
Do you have flood insurance? If your home is located in a high-flood-risk area and you have a federally backed mortgage, you probably do because your lender would have required it. But what if you paid cash for your home? Or it’s not located in a high-flood-risk area? You might still need flood insurance to protect what, for many, is their largest asset — your home.
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3 weeks ago |
multihousingnews.com | Robyn A. Friedman
Image by da-kuk/iStockphoto.comYour digital marketing staff is no doubt doing a bang-up job of optimizing your apartment websites, driving qualified leads that can then be converted into leases. But are those marketing strategies future-proof? In the world of digital marketing—which is evolving so quickly that even experts have a hard time keeping up—will your strategies continue to deliver in the future, when artificial intelligence becomes an integral part of your online search strategy?
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1 month ago |
kiplinger.com | Robyn A. Friedman
In some ways, now is a challenging time to take the plunge and buy your dream home. Many homeowners who locked in ultra-low mortgage rates a few years ago continue to stay put — limiting the supply of homes for sale — and it remains to be seen how the new presidential administration’s policy decisions will affect the housing market. But the general consensus among some of the country’s most respected housing economists is this: If you need to buy, then buy.
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