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Real Estate Agent With Barely Six Hundred Followers Posted a Silly Backstreet Boys Dance for a Listing and Woke Up to Half a Million Views
Most real estate agents post a listing video and hope a few hundred people scroll past it. Hoag Korth had 638 followers when he posted his. Then a lip-synced Backstreet […]
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Celebrity Broker Ryan Serhant Told a Room Full of Real Estate Industry Professionals the Traditional Starter Home Is Already Completely Dead
Ryan Serhant has spent the better part of three years telling anyone who’ll listen that the housing market Americans grew up expecting is gone. This week, the Serhant CEO and […]
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Federal Prosecutors Say a Chicago House Flipper Ran a Twenty Million Dollar Real Estate Fraud Scheme Right Under His Investors’ Noses
Federal securities regulators say a Texas man who once ran a Chicago-area house-flipping outfit raised more than $20 million from over 600 investors on a promise of quick, high returns, […]
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Renovation Creator Compared Her Own Original Zillow Listing Photos to the House She Actually Lives in Now and Millions Could Not Look Away
Most people who finally finish a fixer-upper delete the old listing photos the moment closing is behind them. Erica Mueller kept hers, and turned them into the centerpiece of the […]
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Selena Gomez Sells Tom Petty’s Former Encino Mansion for 5.4 Million After Six Years Netting a Modest Profit Over Her 2020 Purchase Price
Selena Gomez has closed the sale of her longtime Encino estate for $5.4 million, ending a six-year stretch of ownership in the Southern California property once built for Tom Petty. […]
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HOA Boards Keep Fighting Families Over Wheelchair Ramps Built for Disabled Residents and Federal Regulators Keep Stepping in to Stop Them
A ramp is plywood and railing, maybe forty square feet of decking bolted to a porch. To a homeowners association bylaw written for curb appeal, it can look like a […]
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Shared Driveway Easement Fights Keep Landing in Court and Judges Keep Reminding Feuding Neighbors Who Actually Has the Legal Right of Way
In 2015, Glenn and Valerie Wilson stretched a chain across a strip of gravel on their property in Richmond, Rhode Island, and backed it up with a stockade fence. That […]
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Gen Z Renters Are Now Handing Over a Noticeably Bigger Slice of Every Paycheck for Rent Than Any Generation Before Them Did at the Same Age
Renters under 25 are now more likely to be cost-burdened than any other age group in the country, including retirees. Sixty percent of renter households headed by someone under 25 […]
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Millions of Renters Are Just Now Finding Out They May Be Owed Real Cash From a Massive Rent Pricing Software Settlement Years in the Making
Renters who leased an apartment at a building using RealPage’s pricing software between 2018 and 2025 may be owed money from a $359.9 million antitrust settlement, and the window to […]
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Sellers Who Sign a Contract and Then Get a Much Better Offer From Someone Else Cannot Just Walk Away No Matter How Tempting That Offer Is
Nearly 53,000 signed home-purchase agreements fell apart in a single month this spring, according to Redfin’s tracking of March 2026 closings, 13.4% of everything that went under contract, tied with […]