Take matters into your hands every Friday by clicking on the Service You Can Trust blog for the latest news and information that you are used to receiving in Realty Digest. You also can click on separate links below for The Big Apple, Out and About and the Weekly Roundup, but that puts you at risk of missing important developments in the other posts.



Starting with a minimum bid of $50,000, you could be the winner of a one-bedroom apartment in Battery Park City. Other news this week includes predictions of where our housing market is headed, a guide to obtaining offering plans free, updates on the rental market, and the direction in which Wall Street bonuses are headed. (Hint: not down.)

In the Service You Can Trust blog's roundup of the past week's most relevant real estate happenings, you can see how the Fed's plans will affect you, check up on purchases and sales by names you know, assess opinions about the outlook for the U.S. housing market, get the lowdown on mortgage rates and discover where condos are selling best. There's a whole host of tidbits that will make you the hit of any party.

And to learn what one broker really thinks about the properties he visits, the Service You Can Trust blog's Out and About posts are the place to go. Today's post questions an inescapable trend in kitchens.

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.