Construction The Trump Administration's Immigration Policies May Tighten Construction Industry's Labor Shortage Hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Central America may now lose their temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. The...
Opinion Completed Sales Dropping in Real Estate Market With the Highest Property Taxes Homeowners in Westchester, New York already pay the highest property taxes in the U.S., with an average annual bill of $16,493 in 2016,...
Opinion Is the NAR's Power 'Diminished' in the Wake of the Tax Overhaul? The National Association of Realtors has nearly 1.3 million members, and spent more than $32 million on lobbying in 2017. The group opposed...
Market Data + Trends For a Quarter of the Housing Market, Sellers Are 'in the Drivers' Seat' The share of U.S. home sales above the listed price hit 24.1 percent in 2017, with the typical price increase at 3.1 percent. More than half...
Trends The New Standard for Luxury Living Across the 100 largest metros in the U.S., the share of $5 million homes is almost five times higher than in 2002, setting the bar for the...
BALA Best in American Living Awards Gather Inspiration From the 2017 Best in American Living Awards These four Best in American Living Award winners point the way to market success with exquisite design and site sensitivity
Trends Retail Lagged, Construction Soared in 2017 Job Market In 2017, the U.S. economy added 2.06 million jobs, with strong gains in the construction and manufacturing industries. Unemployment remained...
Home Technology Samsung 'Going All in' on Internet of Things 'Ecosystem' Speaking at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung executives reaffirmed that all of the company’s products will be Internet of Things ...
Market Data + Trends Most U.S. Population Growth Was in Southern, Western States The U.S. population grew by 2.3 million between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017. Idaho had the largest percentage of growth, 2.2 percent,...
Market Data + Trends 'The New Normal' for Rental Households Currently, nearly half of renter households are cost-burdened. The 2017 rental housing report from Harvard University's Joint Center for...
