Kim Porter began her career as a writer and an editor focusing on personal finance in 2010. Since then, her work has been published everywhere from Forbes Advisor to U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, ...

Escalation clauses incrementally increase your offer on a home if the seller receives higher bids, up to a maximum price. Including one in your purchase offer can help you stay competitive without ...

Escalation clauses are often used to facilitate the creation of long-term contracts as wages or prices fluctuate over time. In these contract negotiations, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the ...

Tariffs, trade tensions and material cost escalations are more than just headlines—they are challenges that contractors face every day. In our recent Q&A webinar, we tackled contractors’ pressing ...

The summer of 2021 was a time of high anxiety when many contractors faced surging steel prices and lacked the protection of contract material price escalation clauses. Remember 2019? That’s when ...