Retirement Planning: Conversations to Have With Your Spouse

(Editor’s note: This content is sponsored by Acts Retirement-Life Communities.) There is plenty to consider when you’re headed into retirement. You need to establish a plan to support the rest of your life, the years you’ve looked forward to enjoying t… Continue reading

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara become first all-female pair to win Pritzker Prize

The Dublin architects are also the award’s first Irish recipients. Continue reading

Thinking about refinancing your 30-year mortgage? Think again!

All those deals soliciting homeowners to refinance their mortgages at today’s low interest rates might sound great, but when you really dig into the numbers, that’s often not the case. Here’s why. Continue reading

Douglas Elliman agent who once posed topless with cops gets arrested at wine festival

A model and simultaneous Douglas Elliman agent pleaded not guilty after getting arrested for disorderly intoxication at a Florida wine festival. Continue reading

Modern Granny Flat garage conversion not just for grannies

Modern Granny Flat recently won a prize from the American Institute of Architects for its San Diego garage conversion into an accessory dwelling unit. Continue reading

The Blindside Wipeout of Grief

(Editor’s Note:  Across the country, communities are fraying in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Many people are dealing with a multitude of emotions, including grief — both past and present. So we are republishing this Next Aven… Continue reading

The Transforming Spark of Late-in-Life Love

My mother, 72, had been a widow for three years when she was set up by mutual friends with Hank, a 75-year-old widower whose wife had died a few months before. Hank lived in Boston and she was in New York City, so they’d spent many hours on the phone b… Continue reading