Market Data + Trends NAHB Reports OSB Prices Up Nearly 20% Since September 2016 According to the NAHB's latest "Eye on Housing" report, the OSB price index has increased by 7.5 percent over the past two months, after...
Trends 'Granite, Ho!": Tracking the Stone's 30-Year Ascendance For the middle class, granite countertops have long been a symbol of domestic luxury. Indeed, granite has been championed so strongly for...
Trends Real Estate Developers Are Converting Golden Era Skyscrapers Into Residential Areas One Wall Street, the Crown Building, the Beaux Arts Emigrant Building, and several other of New York City's architectural landmarks are...
Market Data + Trends Affordability Driving Housing Trends Along Political Lines In America's largest urban counties, typically politically blue, housing is becoming less available and less affordable. Rising housing...
Trends SuBlurbia: How Cities and Their Suburbs Are Becoming One and the Same Old stereotypes about suburban and city lifestyles are falling away as the two residential categories become more and more similar. Changing...
New-Construction Projects Hurricanes Harvey and Irma to Blame for New-Home Mortgage Application September Slump According to a new survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association, mortgage applications for new homes dropped 20% overall from August to...
Opinion Urban Areas Cause 'Jigsaw Puzzle of Fire' In what some firefighters are calling a "once-in-two-careers" fire, California is grappling with its worst wildfire since 1933, with at...
Market Data + Trends Top 10 Cities for Buying a Big, Family Home Starting a family is a life-changing decision, and finding the area best suited to a family's needs can be daunting. SmartAsset has ranked...
Opinion California's Wildfires Are the Latest Natural Disaster to Shock Housing Markets While the ultimate cost of human life and housing remains unclear at this time for California, experts are positing it may take five to 10...
Market Data + Trends New U.K. Study Highlights Walkability's Potential Public Health Value Responding to the recent Oxford University and University of Hong Kong's study published in The Lancet, CityLab's Feargus O'Sullivan states...
