Trends The Expense of Affordable Housing The costly problem many cities are currently tackling is creating publicly subsidized, affordable housing for low- and moderate-income...
Trends The $5.3 Billion Problem Affecting Homebuying In a growing con called "email access compromise", scammers are targeting homebuyers' down payments. The scam compromises the computer or...
Trends Watauga, TX is the Hottest U.S. ZIP Code With Boost From Millennials Watauga, Texas has topped Realtor.com's annual ranking of hottest neighborhoods by ZIP code. A suburb of Fort Worth, TX, Watauga's median...
Trends Credit Unions Requiring Little to No Down Payment for Home Loans In an effort to help consumers qualify for home loans, credit unions are requiring a significantly lower down payment than usual from...
Trends New, Bigger Homes Mean Less Yard Space, Despite Homebuyer Preference In a new trend three decades in the making, home square footage continues to grow at the expense of lot size. Homes built since 2015 take up...
Trends New Study Shows Large Regional Housing Markets Can Endure Historic Storms 2017 has had one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons recorded, and presumably the costliest in U.S. history based on the...
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...
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...
Trends Home Alone: More Americans Living Unpartnered, Especially Young Adults Over the past decade, the U.S. Census Bureau has been collecting detailed data on cohabitation. The number of U.S. adults living unpartnered...