Freudenfreude:  taking delight in someone else's achievement, the opposite of schadenfreude. 

 

You may be familiar with Schadenfreude, a word of German orgin, that has gotten new attention after appearing in an episode of Ted Lasso.  I ran across this word, freudenfreude, which aptly describes how I feel each and every day as the Broker [...]

Seems as though housing has gone the way of toilet paper, hand sanitizer and canned goods at the tail end of 2020 and early into 2021.  The cupboards are bare.  Inventory was tight all year and wise [...]

Housing inventory in Mansfield is low.  Is it the gloomy skies?  The constant  rain during one of the wettest Aprils on record?   Is it trepidation about crumbling basements?  Is it the volatility of interest rates?  If you read what is reported about Connecticut’s declining census, you have to wonder why inventory isn’t booming.  Are these [...]