Since 1926, there’s been an old adage about three key factors when choosing a property to buy: Location, Location, Location. But with so many varied factors, what truly makes a city great? Obviously, there are a variety of features, and a recent WalletHub study reveals that these features are gender specific. Of course they are! Why didn’t we consider this before?

How can one city be an all-encompassing perfect spot for both men and women, when their needs are so vastly different? Truthfully, realtors should familiarize themselves with the idea that women need to tailor their buying power in areas that are sensitive to their needs. It’s an outdated mentality that a single, millennial female should purchase in a superb community because it has good schools and crime is low. While that would appeal to a mother with two children, it does not encompass the needs of every woman.
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Why join a women’s organization? One word: success.

Businesswomen are creating higher-level success stories and it is in no small part a result of collective camaraderie and new tools like the NAWRB Women’s Global Database. Women are starting over 1,100 businesses a day and women-owned businesses grew by 27.5 percent from 2007 to 2012. This professional attainment has gained so much momentum that last year the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that it met its annual lending authority threshold of $18.75 billion. The SBA also recently awarded 5.05 percent of all federal small business contracts totaling $17.8 billion to women-owned small businesses, surpassing their 5 percent goal.
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Like a Macy’s dress on sale, Flint, Michigan is hanging on the proverbial, real estate clearance rack. While the town endures a serious water crisis, the fact is, many investors are buying up Flint like a new pair of Pradas on Black Friday. It may be shocking, but the Flint real estate market is making a comeback, and realtor.com reports that investors are buying homes for an average price of just under $23,000.

I know what you’re thinking. It’s true that Flint has not had the best press for a few decades. They’ve been under tremendous duress since General Motors left a mass of its residents unemployed in the ’80s. Not to mention the less than stalwart city officials that created the water crisis by allowing a change in drinking water source from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the Flint River, leading to thousands of residents being exposed to lead contamination. But Flint is on the rise, and for good reason.
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NAWRB is happy to announce the release of NAWRB Magazine Volume 5, Issue 1: Women’s Homeownership! From the current housing market conditions to socioeconomic effects on health and disease, we bring our readers the latest developments in the housing continuum.

Our profiles of Hispanic and Asian-American homebuyers illustrate the potential these groups have to bring change and revitalization to the housing market, as well as the crucial role women play in this purchasing activity. We also address the current rental market, with it’s continually elevating rent that at times rivals mortgage payments; as Americans continue battling high rents and remain incapable of homeownership due to low affordability, where will they find relief?
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Today is the last day of women’s history month and as significant as the support and awareness of women has been these past 31 days, it is important to maintain this solidarity the rest of the year.

In the professional arena, women entrepreneurs are reaching historic achievements. Women are starting 1,100 new businesses every day and the Small Business Administration (SBA) recently announced that they are presently awarding 5.05 percent of federal small business contracts to women-owned small businesses. Women-owned businesses grew by 27.5 percent from 2007 to 2012, and women business owners are continually setting the stage for tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) released a report this week detailing the state of women in leadership. AAUW asserts, “Women are much less likely than men to be in leadership positions. In universities, businesses, courts, unions, and religious institutions, male leaders outnumber female leaders by wide margins.”
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The future of technology and design is a topic always at the helm of modern discussions. How will the next model of that luxurious car look? When will we see in real life the technology we’ve long observed in films? Essentially, how will the things we know and see everyday change next?

We are surely—at times slowly, other times briskly—moving toward the future. The latest example of this is the New York Horizon Project, winner of eVolo Magazine’s 2016 Skyscraper Competition.

In the project, designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu propose digging Central Park down to the bedrock, thus exposing lakes and mountains, and subsequently constructing a 1000-foot tall structure around the perimeter of the park with mirrored walls reflecting New York’s architecture that would house thousands of apartments.
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At the beginning of 2016, the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC) released the 2015 annual report detailing the current state and progress of women-owned businesses in the U.S. The report identified several breakthroughs for women entrepreneurs, among them the fact that there are 10 million women-owned businesses in the country, these firms employ 8 million workers and generate $1.4 trillion in revenue, between 2002 and 2012 women-owned companies grew at a rate 2.5 times the national average and women entrepreneurs account for 36 percent of all businesses.
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