features Potential Effects of 2017's Housing Trends on 2018's Market Experts predict the housing market to be healthy in 2018, though diminished enthusiasm for homebuying may cause a ripple effect. In a new...
Innovation In Search of the Self-Repairing House Researchers are hoping to replicate the advantages of self-repairing biological materials like bark, coral, and skin in building materials. ...
Trends Most Cities With the Lowest Cost of Living for Retirees Are in the Midwest Three of the top 10 best cities for retiree cost of living were in Ohio -- Columbus, Cleveland, and Toledo, and the number one city was...
Trends Millennials Ascendant in Real Estate and Debt New data show that millennials took the greatest share of all new mortgages, and buying a greater share in all price tiers of the housing...
Opinion About 42,000 Potential Homebuyers Could Be Affected by a Government Shutdown Congressional leaders are currently working to pass a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open. If the bill does not pass,...
Opinion NAR Says Passage of GOP Tax Reforms Would Negatively Impact Housing Prices Should GOP tax reform pass, the capital gains exclusion rules for selling a home would change, and state and local tax (SALT) deductions...
Opinion Congress Needs to Find Common Ground on Tax Reform for These Housing Measures With the passage of the Senate GOP tax plan, Congress will work to reconcile measures in the two GOP tax reform bills, including the...
Trends Data Show Consumers Are Starting to See Real Estate as a 'Solid Investment' Again Two years after the end of the last recession, residential investment was flat. Now, experts anticipate the housing market's slow recovery...
Trends The Most Dangerous and the Safest Cities in the U.S. The Northeast region of the U.S. had the top three safest cities in the nation -- Nashua, New Hampshire at number one, followed by South...
Market Data + Trends Texas Tops List of Best U.S. Cities for Conferences Conferences can stimulate a city's economy with increased consumer spending and foot traffic. A new ranking of the top 10 cities for...
