Happy Thanksgiving! There will be no newsletter next Friday. But you will find an abbreviated post then on the Service You Can Trust blog, which is where you always can read the latest news and information for folks who don't want to miss anything of importance about real estate.



Although some reports about the housing market had good news this week, they represented only snapshots of the past. Draw your own conclusions and see what's up with bees, traps that buyers can avoid and the silver lining that bedbugs are creating not only for exterminators. (Any puns deliberately intended.)

In the Service You Can Trust blog's roundup of the past week's most relevant real estate happenings, note what celebrities are buying, selling and renting, and track what is happening with mortgage rates. There's much more, too, including a list of the nation's dirtiest cities.

For credible insights about the Manhattan housing market, be sure to check out the Service You Can Trust blog's Out and About posts. Today's post explores the pitfalls of staging—for buyer and seller alike.

To search listings of properties on the market, that option is just a click away, too, either below or on the blog. But please do bear in mind that Malcolm can make both selling and buying real estate as painless and productive as possible.