All I can say is, they must be pretty happy, because everyone I know LOVES the Nashville area and Hendersonville, Tennessee!

 

Daily Real Estate News   April 7, 2009 

10 Happiest States in the U.S.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make life a whole lot easier.

MainStreet.com’s Happiness Index examined household income, debt, employment, and foreclosures to choose the states that are surviving the current economic crisis with the most panache.

The analysis discovered that despite disastrous conditions in parts of Michigan and Ohio, overall, the Midwest is navigating the financial meltdown with the highest average salaries, lowest unemployment, and fewest foreclosures. In fact, Nebraska, in the center of the corn belt, scores highest on MainStreet’s Happiness Index.

Here are the rest of the top-10 happiest states:

1. Nebraska
2. Iowa
3. Kansas
4. Hawaii
5. Louisiana
6. Oklahoma
7. Wyoming
8. South Dakota
9. West Virginia
10. Wisconsin

 

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 Feddie Mac reports a drop in the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to 4.98 PERCENT during the week ended March 19 from 5.03 percent the prior year, marking the lowest rate since 4.96 percent in mid-January. Experts say rates could fall further in response to the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will add $1.2 trillion to the economy to alleviate the credit crisis.
[SOURCES: Freddie Mac; Information, Inc.]
 

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…at least according to the Washington Post and the Mortgage Bankers Association. Although there have been, and will continue to be, variations from week to week, experts predict rates will remain low for a while, but won’t go very much lower.

A boost in refinancing demand usually pushes interest rates up and puts a damper on refi activity, but experts say borrowers have no need to worry about rising costs as they rush to take advantage of the U.S. government’s new no-equity refinance program. Mortgage Bankers Association economic forecaster Orawin Velz explains that the Federal Reserve plans to purchase $500 billion in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage bonds to hold interest rates at about 5 percent by maintaining demand for the securities. Experts say borrowers should not wait in hopes that rates will fall as low as 4 percent, as this scenario is unlikely.

[SOURCES: Washington Post; Information, Inc.]

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Business Week magazine reports real estate commissions in some parts of the country are going up as anxious sellers are willing to pay more to attract the attention of agents with buyers, and listing agents are become more particular about the homes they list.

The magazine said commissions of 8 percent are not unusual in hard-hit parts of the country – such as California – and that some home builders are paying agents as much as 10 percent to help them reduce inventory.

Business Week quoted an agent with EXIT Realty in Minneapolis as saying he charges sellers 6 percent commissions for his “typical menu of services,” 7 percent if the seller wants a guarantee that the home will be sold in 39 days, and for an 8 percent commission he’ll do free home staging and mount additional advertising.

By Bonna Johnson • THE TENNESSEAN • January 19, 2009

Nashville, it seems, is just as great as you think it is.

Readers of Southern Living magazine deemed Music City one of the best cities in Dixie, proclaimed our breakfast restaurants darn good and said the shopping in Green Hills rivals anything in Atlanta or New Orleans.

Results of the "reader's choice awards" are in the magazine's January issue, on newsstands now.

"People can come do their grocery shopping, then grab some apparel for that night, all in a convenient, friendly atmosphere," says Beth Franklin, 28, store manager at Posh Boutique at the Hill Center in Green Hills, a Green Hills resident and avid shopper in the neighborhood.

Green Hills was voted seventh in the Top 10 list of best neighborhoods for shopping, behind Buckhead and Virginia Highland in Atlanta, King Street in Charleston, S.C., Magazine Street and the French Quarter in New Orleans and Homewood in Birmingham, Ala.

From new additions, such as the Hill Center, to favorite oldies, such as Levy's, Green Hills has some of the city's fanciest shops, plus a bit of everything else, from tree nurseries to fair trade.

Other Nashville-area favorites on the list:

Best Southern city: Nashville came in fifth; Charleston, S.C., was first.

Best restaurant for breakfast or brunch: Loveless Cafe, fifth, and Pancake Pantry, sixth.

Best Southern restaurant: Loveless Cafe was fifth.

Best small town: Franklin was fifth.

Best hotel: Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center came in second.

Best public garden: Cheekwood Botanical Garden was 10th.

"It reaffirms the uniqueness of Cheekwood and its remarkable landscape," says Jack Becker, Cheekwood's president and CEO.

More than 47,000 readers of the Birmingham, Ala.-based magazine voted.

Staff writer Angela Patterson contributed to this report. Contact Bonna Johnson at 615-726-5990 or bjohnson@tennessean.com.

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By Tena Lee • Hendersonville Star News • February 17, 2009

Davidson Academy officials could break ground on the site of a new campus in Hendersonville as early as this spring after recently accepting an offer for their Nashville campus.

The private interdenominational Christian school purchased 76 acres on Drakes Creek Road along Vietnam Veterans Boulevard in April of 2006. The school had been trying to sell their current campus on Old Hickory Boulevard.

“We have a pending sale,” said the school’s President Dr. Bill Chaney. Chaney declined to name the prospective buyer of the school’s current 65-acre campus.

 

Chaney added the terms of the sale require the school to obtain construction financing within the next 120 days.

 

“This is contingent on our ability to get the underwriting for tax exempt bonds,” said Chaney. “We have four months to do that.”

 

Chaney added if financing is obtained, the school would close on the sale of its current campus in four months and immediately begin Phase I of its building program in Hendersonville. Phase I includes a 83,000-square-foot building which would eventually become the school for the lower grades, but could serve any combination of grades at first. Chaney said Phase I of the school’s building program would take about a year to complete.

 

“We hope to get started this spring and be in this building by the fall of 2010,” he added.

 

Chaney said he believes that by relocating to Hendersonville, the school’s enrollment could increase as much as 20 percent.

 

“Obviously this will provide newer and more functional facilities for our programs,” said the principal, who has headed the school since its inception in 1980. Besides new facilities, a Hendersonville zip code will enhance the school as well, he added.

“We are told every day that there is a demand for a school like ours in Hendersonville.”

 

Construction drawings and specifications are complete for the lower school building and are in the approval process with the city of Hendersonville and the state fire marshal’s office, Chaney said. Plans for the Upper School academic building and the arts and athletic complex are in the schematic design phase.

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