Lucy Lambriex | DigitalVision | Getty Images Despite a sizeable elderly and disabled population in the U.S., there is not enough affordable housing to accommodate those individuals. “For millions of Americans, adequate housing is more of an aspiration than a reality,” said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who serves as chairman of the Senate Special Committee
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At this point, the U.S. housing crisis is well documented. The nation is short some 6.5 million homes, and developers can’t seem to build fast enough to meet the demand. Experts expected rising interest rates to exacerbate the housing shortage by stalling development activity and further throwing off the housing supply-demand pendulum—but in May, there
Country artist Trisha Yearwood is saying goodbye to her Southern manor home in Nashville. Listed for $4.5 million, the home is located in Nashville’s upscale Brentwood neighborhood—just 10 minutes from the city’s iconic Music Row. Yearwood fans might recognize parts of the home, namely the kitchen, from her Food Network cooking show, “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen.”
Major property owners have been walking away from prominent office buildings from coast to coast. Those owners have seen their revenue drop because of tenant departures and decisions not to renew leases. The income from the building can’t cover debt service. The owners could choose to write checks from other sources to keep their loans
A house is for sale in Arlington, Virginia, July 13, 2023. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Sales of pre-owned homes dropped 3.3% in June compared with May, running at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.16 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors. Compared with June of last year, sales were
Many first-time visitors to the West London district of Notting Hill arrive with a handful of preconceptions grown from a passing familiarity with the Portobello Road Market, the annual Notting Hill Carnival or the 1990s romantic comedy that bears its name. Not all presumptions are inaccurate, however, and in the case of Notting Hill, these
What began in Miami three years ago as a pandemic-era effort to indulge in as much outdoor recreation as possible soon gave way to an enormous upsurge in the number of well-heeled Miamians owning boats. But as big-ticket expenditures tend to do, that luxurious indulgence soon generated the need for yet another creature comfort. After
Within a month, two spec homes — one at a record-setting $30 million-plus and one at $20 million — sold in what promises to be one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Paradise Valley, Arizona. The estimated value of the completed top-selling home would set a record for the state. In a highly desirable luxury
Austin, as the country’s fastest growing city and now the tenth largest city in the country, is at the forefront of housing challenges, and taking the opportunity to explore innovative solutions. Bryan Glasshagel is senior vice president at housing data and consultancy firm Zonda, and tracks Texas markets. He points out that as some of
Private apartments are seen against the backdrop of the Marina Bay Sands hotel and the Singapore Flyer observatory wheel in Singapore on March 23, 2022. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images Rents in prime residential areas increased the most in Singapore, Lisbon and Berlin in the first half of the year, according to a
The U.S. housing market is in historic turmoil. Years of rock bottom interest rates, then the pandemic, and now an unprecedented cycle of tightening by the Federal Reserve that is likely not over yet, have left buyers and sellers in difficult spot. Prices have begun to level off or decline in many areas in response
Typically, luxury homes in Whitefish, Montana, are designed to fit into the spectacularly rugged landscape. Dominant styles are traditional mountain and glass-filled mountain modern, which rely on using natural materials with wood and stone accents. But there are exceptions. The contemporary lakefront home takes its cues from coastal Carolina cottages thousands of miles … [+]
Blaine, Minnesota. Brand new townhomes for sale with new construction financing and a builders credit of $4,500 to attract new buyers. Michael Siluk | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Mortgage interest rates pulled back last week after jumping sharply to start July. That lit a fire under refinance demand but did little to help
Amidst warnings from scientists and engineers that artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing more quickly than the resolution of ethical control issues surrounding it, ChatGPT has arrived in the residential real estate universe. Agents countrywide have begun using it to write listing descriptions and assemble pitch packages. Just last week, one of our New York agents
Michael Barr, vice chair for supervision of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, testifies during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Oversight of Prudential Regulators, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator expressed caution Tuesday
Builder sentiment in the market for single family homes rose one point in July to 56, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. It marks the seventh straight month of gains and the highest level since June 2022. A reading above 50 is considered positive sentiment. Builders say low supply
Anyone with an eye for detail will be awestruck at this Spanish Colonial Revival estate in Santa Barbara’s Hope Ranch enclave. La Sonrisa was designed in 1931 by Floyd E. Brewster, a protégé of architect George Washington Smith, who worked with Carleton Winslow Sr. on the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The property sits
“I see music as fluid architecture,” legendary singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell told the New York Times in a 1991 interview. Debbe Daley saw it as an inspiration for interior architecture when she remodeled a room in her Portsmouth, New Hampshire home as a music studio for herself and her husband. The interior designer and
The Evergrande Group headquarters building in Shenzhen is pictured on January 11, 2022 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. Liang Xiashun | Visual China Group | Getty Images China Evergrande Group posted a combined loss of $81 billion in its long overdue earnings report late on Monday. The world’s most indebted property developer fell into
Traditionally, when a property owner agreed to sell real property, it was up to the buyer to check out the real property as much as they wanted. If the buyer liked what they found, they could go ahead and buy the real property. If they didn’t, they could go buy other real property instead. The
A real estate agency window in Alicante, Spain. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images More Americans are flocking to Spain for longer, whether as so-called digital nomads working abroad or to enjoy a new life in retirement. The number of Americans living in Spain grew by 13% from 2019 to 2021, and home sales
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