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Financing

Older Homeowners Face Rising Mortgage Debt

Retirement may have to wait. The New York Times reports that a growing number of older homeowners carry mortgage debt, which could...

Economics

With fewer homes on the market, potential buyers have to be patient. Using data from the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, NAR’s...

Kitchen + Bath

5 Things You Need To Know About Kitchens

Kitchens have been thought of as the most sociable room in the house. Now they are considered altogether the most valuable. Yuqing Pan of...

Economics

Wall Street is optimistic about the president-elect’s plans for infrastructure spending and tax cuts

Codes + Standards

Texas investors are planning a $300 million luxury community, named Trident Lakes, of underground homes with air-lock blast doors designed...

Codes + Standards

The Passive House standard will become the base building code for commercial construction, and is having influence in the residential arena,...

Codes + Standards

Tiny house activists are working on a proposed appendix to the International Residential Codes to essentially make small abodes legal...

Codes + Standards

Seattle has implemented a new regulation to reduce the number of rats occupying vacant buildings. The port city ranks first in the U.S. in...

Codes + Standards

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Board of Directors announced that Mahesh Ramanujam has completed the transition into his new role as...

features

Young adults are flocking toward the interior of the country. Through a decade’s worth of U.S. Census data, Curbed reports that eight of...

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