Smart lighting is an integral feature of any home automation. Smart lights use wireless transmissions to send and receive their signals, and different bulbs use different methods. Some use Bluetooth radios that connect directly to your phone or hub, as long as you’re within 50 feet of them. Others use Wi-Fi radios to connect directly […]
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Weekly Housing Trends: Week of May 14, 2022
What this Week’s Data Means: The real estate refresh has arrived, as active listings posted sizeable gains for the first time in three years. And the year-over-year gap closed rapidly, going from flat to convincingly positive territory in the span of a week. As anticipated in our April Housing Trends report, we saw the number of homes […]
Weekly Housing Trends: Week of February 19, 2022
What this Week’s Data Means: Climbing mortgage rates kept fueling competition in the housing market this week as home prices continued to grow at a higher pace than we saw last week. During the same week the previous year, a severe, nationwide storm disrupted the housing market, as many markets contended with snow and a severe freeze. […]
Fire Safety Prevention Tips for Your Tree and the Holidays
Christmas trees are an essential part of the holiday season. But they also cause an average of 200 home fires per year, resulting in an average of six civilian fire deaths, 16 civilian fire injuries, and $14.8 million in property damage, according to studies conducted by the U.S. Fire Administration’s National Fire Incident Reporting System and the National […]
Weekly Housing Trends: Week of October 23, 2021
What this Week’s Data Means: As we approach the end of October, the housing market is in a holding pattern at a relatively brisk level of activity. Indicators from home price growth to the change in active inventory and time on the market remain stuck in a narrow range relative to one year ago, neither heating […]
Neighborhoods: Elkton, Maryland
Elkton is a town in and the county seat of Cecil County Maryland, United States. The population was 15,443 at the 2010 census. It was formerly called Head of Elk because it sits at the head of navigation on the Elk River, which flows into the nearby Chesapeake Bay. The town was founded […]
Food Tip of the Week: Passion Fruit
Native to Brazil, Passion Fruit is the edible fruit of the passion flower. This tropical fruit grows on the passionflower plant and comes from the genus passiflora, which is actually the Hebrew word for the fruit. The two main commercial varieties available are Hawaiian yellow and New Zealand purple. They are oval in shape […]
Food Tip of The Week: Asparagus
Asparagus is spring’s most luxurious vegetable. It was once cultivated for medicinal purposes as a natural remedy for blood cleansing and diuretic purposes. A member of the Lily family, there are over 150 varieties of asparagus. White asparagus, cultivated in the dark, lacks chlorophyll allowing for the product to be white. While Europeans prize white […]
Food Tip of The Week: Grapefruit
The United States is the major producer of grapefruit in the world and is also the biggest grapefruit consumer. Florida grows about 80 percent of the U.S. crop, and half of the world’s production in essentially two areas of the State, Central Florida and the Indian River. Texas, California, and Arizona as well as Florida, […]
Vegetables You Can Plant Now Before the Last Frost
You know how it is, the winter seems to drag on forever and you are itching to go and dig in the dirt and plant your garden. Now, it’s bad to jump the gun and plant warm-weather crops early, but you don’t have to wait until the last frost to plant your garden! the Longest […]
