Simonsen also reads Clean Slate, the real estate blog of Better Homes and Gardens.
With titles like Better Homes and Gardens it has evergreen content and a stable, financially solid subscriber base.
Three years ago, the word "retrofit" was more likely to bring to mind Jack LaLanne than better homes and workplaces.
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Defaulting on your mortgage should be one of your last resorts, points out Sherry Chris, chief executive officer of Better Homes and Gardens real estate.
He believes that real-estate prices should keep going up over the next 20 years because the majority of Chinese people will want bigger and better homes.
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Realogy Holdings is a real estate franchising company with business brands and units such as Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Century 21, Coldwell Bankers, and several others.
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One reason she highlighted was a fragmented and inefficient industry, whose firms competed not for customers by offering better homes or building them more cheaply but for that scarce British commodity, land with permission to develop.
Incomes were good, everyone had a job, household savings were above the national average, neighborhoods that now are unimaginably blighted were filled with house-proud families like mine who imagined a wonderful future in which their children and grandchildren would find even better homes, perhaps living in upscale Strathmore, Bradford Hills, Sedgwick Farms, or Fayetteville.
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It said better insulated homes would help lift people out of fuel poverty.
Will Hutton, who chairs the commission, told the Today programme that it appears to be applicants from better off homes "who are thinking hardest about assuming these debt levels".
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"We must also prioritise making Britain's homes better insulated and more energy-efficient, " she added.
The federal government recently overhauled one of its web services to help families better evaluate nursing homes.
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And it didn't take long to uncover the biggest problem with the rebuilding plans: New, more stringent building codes aimed at making homes better able to withstand hurricane forces.
Mr Pickthall said the site would be better suited to a homes and heritage scheme.
We could reduce energy consumption by making fewer journeys and using better insulation in our homes.
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But overall the better material found new homes, with a new generation of collectors to carry the flame.
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Even very frail people in nursing homes feel better after singing and moving.
In fact, the mobile industry has also enabled Indian immigrant workers in high-income countries to better connect with their homes in India.
This time the signs are better: 12 million homes now receive digital programming, the total could double in three years, and the Web has arrived as a ready-made, interactive sales channel.
The big question for ministers is this - how can they enforce better standards on new homes and how can they fix the poor insulation standards and heat loss from existing homes?
In other communities, hospitals and nursing homes did a better job sharing data.
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The operating assumption is that weatherized homes that perform better than a pre-determined benchmark are eligible for salable carbon credits.
Defra said that it expected 165, 000 homes to be better protected by 2015 - some 20, 000 more than its previous target.
They live in cleaner, warmer homes, have better and more equal access to education, are better fed and clothed than all but the most affluent children a century ago.
The majority of the refugees could return safely to their homes and have a better life than where they are now.
The quality of homes would likely be better, " said Chen Yining, a Shanghai native who is looking to invest in a home in the U.S. "Unless, of course, I get favorable mortgage conditions, or if I can pay in yuan.
Labour's peers, Lord Warner, a former health minister, and Lord Patel of Bradford, have amendments down on the holy grail of health policy: the integration of health with social care - removing the barriers that keep people in expensive hospital beds, when they may be better looked-after in care homes.
The outlook for the next six months is also better, said NAHB chief economist David Crowe, thanks to lower inventory of homes available for sale, mortgage rates near record levels and better consumer confidence.
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We're still heading out of our homes, looking for a better life than our parents had.
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