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Innovation

California’s housing shortage stems from issues with land: strict regulation, detrimental NIMBYs, expensive prices. Joe Mathews of the...

Economics

How To Get The Best Mortgage Rate

Interest rates on 30-year conforming mortgages have increased 50 basis points since early November. The rate hike increases mortgage...

Sales

The big news this week is that home prices have surpassed the peak established before the bust in 2006. The market has officially recovered....

Sales

Growing Demand Pushes National Home Prices

A recent report from Knight Frank found that U.S. home prices surpassed their 2006 peak in September. Realtor.com reports that the rise...

New-Home Sales

Outstanding mortgage debt grew by 1.9 percent in the third quarter, and both new and existing home sales are up from last year

Codes + Standards

Colorado Springs is drafting new laws to tightly regulate construction in landslide-risk areas. The action was prompted by landslides that...

Design

Color forecasters at Pantone Color Institute have declared “greenery” as next year’s color of the year. The company describes it as “a fresh...

Economics

With interest rates rising, the millions of homeowners who have home equity lines of credits (HELOCs), have found that their payments are...

Design

The Changing Face Of The Home Office

It used to be that a home office was a dedicated space with a desktop computer, printer, fax machine, landline, and filing cabinets. But...

Economics

Alexandria, Va., and Arlington, Va., ranked first and second in a SmartAsset study of the best cities for Millennials to live. The study...

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