You probably know Ilyce from her Sunday Morning radio program The Ilyce Glink Show, which ran on Atlanta’s Newstalk 750 WSB from 1996 to 2015. Here you’ll find an archive of past programs. You can still catch Ilyce twice a week on WGN Radio when she joins the Steve Cochran Show Wednesdays at 6 a.m., and the Wintrust Business Lunch with Steve Bertrand Thursdays at noon. Thanks for listening!
Money Mistakes People Make in Their 20s and 30s
Look back at who you were in your 20s and 30s. If you could have a conversation with yourself, what money mistakes would you say to avoid? Here are a couple big money mistakes I think people in their 20s and 30s often make. People in their 20s Two big mistakes people in their 20s [...]
How to Buy a Foreclosed Home
Foreclosed homes present an interesting opportunity for those struggling to buy. The selling season should be in full swing but our economic issues have caused a housing slowdown. There are not enough homes available and many are way above what people can afford. Buying a foreclosed home may help you take advantage of the historically [...]
Inheriting an Upside Down House
Q: My ex-husband is deceased, and we had two sons together. They are 34 and 35. His sister asked me to handle his estate and to help the boys with it. He has a house with an insurance policy that will pay for the mortgage for one year. We’ve applied for that, but he is [...]
Green Building Can Be Affordable, Here’s How
On this week’s show, I had four experts join me to discuss how green building can be sustainable for the Earth and affordable for you. Green building has become deeply associated with high costs. So experts, Sheri Koones, Miki Cook, Carl Seville and Marcus de la Fleur explain why it becomes so expensive and strategies [...]
Why So Many Homes Are Unaffordable
Mortgage lenders recommend spending between 28 and 36 percent of your gross monthly income on debt payments. While this is considered to be perfectly affordable, it’s stunning that one-third of the homes for sale right now are unaffordable by historical standards. More than half the homes on the market in seven major American metros are [...]
Estate, Death and Inheritance Taxes
An anonymous Silicon Valley billionaire has purchased the world’s most valuable life insurance policy for $201 million, and I think his reasoning behind it is fascinating. He bought the insurance to help his heirs avoid paying a 45 percent inheritance tax after his death. This life insurance policy will pay out twice as much, and [...]
Factors Affecting Home Prices and Home Sales
Home prices nationwide increased year-over-year, according to a new CoreLogic report. From January of 2013 to January of 2014, home prices, including distressed home sales, increased by an average of 12 percent. If you look at single-family sales in certain areas, appreciation is higher when distressed sales are included rather than excluded. You would think [...]
Why Many Homeowners Are Still Underwater
This week we found out that the negative equity rate for 2013 homeowners was below 20 percent for the first time in years, according to Zillow. Negative equity is when a house is worth less than the mortgage amount – commonly referred to as underwater. One year ago, 27.5 percent of all homeowners with a [...]
Four Trends for the 2014 Housing Market Recovery
Home prices are rising and foreclosures have gone down but several risk factors still face the 2014 housing market recovery. Daren Blomquist, Vice President of RealtyTrac, shared these four trends for the 2014 housing market recovery. RealtyTrac is a company that collects and analyzes real estate data and is one of the only major real [...]
Ilyce Glink Show – Real Estate and Credit Advice
Jay Dobyns, Adam Bryant, Daren Blomquist and Anthony Sprauve join Ilyce to discuss real estate, credit and leadership on the Ilyce Glink Show on February 9, 2014 on WSB Radio. Ilyce's show always contains various forms of real estate and credit advice but she has invited four intelligent and engaged professionals to talk about leadership, the housing market and [...]