Sales Could Buying and Selling a House Be As Easy As Stock Trading? MarketWatch reports on the latest bid by algorithms to grab a piece of the $74 billion paid in real estate agent commissions last year. ...
Demographics Millennials Resort to Questionable Tactics to Buy First Home An earlier PB Daily Feed story noted that Millennial home buyers were more likely than other generation groups to dip into their retirement...
Energy Efficiency Zero Energy Buildings Can Be Constructed With No Added Up-Front Cost Many types of zero energy (ZE) buildings can be constructed with no added up-front cost, and some commercial buildings can see return on...
Market Data + Trends Home Values and Where the Weather is Good If you want to be a Southern Californian, you’ll have to pay for the weather. That region of coastal California enjoyed more pleasant...
Affordability 10 Cities Where Techies Can Live Without Going Broke John Malone was in his mid-20s living the dream of being a software engineer in San Francisco. Except his home was a three-bedroom house...
Fireplace What Will Santa Do? Could the fireplace be going the way of the coal chute? Only 41% of single-family homes started last year included fireplaces, according...
Multifamily Apartment Gyms Evolve Into Wellness Centers Fitness centers in apartment buildings have graduated from the oversized closet with a stationary bike, treadmill, and dumbbells to large...
Trends Why Are American Homes So Big? When Sonia A. Hirt, a professor of landscape architecture and planning at the University of Georgia, began working on a book about land use...
Codes + Standards At Least 30 U.S. Cities Have Adopted Stricter Building Energy Codes Since 2017 At least 30 major U.S. cities have adopted stricter building energy codes since 2017, according to the 2019 City Clean Energy Scorecard...
Planning + Development Evaluating Risks and Cost Before Buying Land Finding the right building site with no issues can be trick; that's where scrubbing the lot could help
