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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 […]
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Sellers Are Increasingly Refusing to Move Out After Closing and Evicting Someone From a House You Now Legally Own Can Drag on for Months
Tracie and Myles Albert closed on a four-bedroom house in Riverside, California, on January 31, 2020. They had drained their savings and taken out a hard money loan to cover […]
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Cash Offers Are Still Nearly Quadrupling a Buyer’s Own Odds in a Bidding War While Popular Tricks Like Escalation Clauses Do Nothing
Twenty-one percent of 2025 home sales went to first-time buyers, according to the National Association of Realtors’ newest buyer profile, released this past November, the lowest share NAR has ever […]
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House Hunters Are Now Showing Up to Open Houses With Their Own Hired Contractor in Tow Before They Will Even Think About Writing an Offer
Housing inventory climbed to 4.9 months’ worth of supply in August, the highest level in more than a decade, according to the National Association of Realtors. That single number helps […]
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Mortgage Rates Just Made Another Move This Monday Morning and Buyers Who Have Been Sitting on the Fence Are Running Out of Reasons to Keep Waiting
Mortgage rates ticked higher again on Monday, giving would-be buyers one more data point to weigh as they decide whether to keep waiting or finally make a move. The average […]
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Samsung’s New See Through Fridge Door Lets Families Peek at What’s Inside Without Ever Opening It and Losing the Cold Air
Every kitchen has the same ritual: someone opens the fridge, stares into it for ten seconds trying to remember what they came for, then closes it and lets a little […]
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Political Commentator’s Century Old Family Home Went Into Foreclosure While Her Own Insurer Sat on a Fully Covered Burst Pipe Claim
Political commentator Tara Setmayer is fighting to keep a house her grandfather built, and the fight isn’t with a bank so much as with the insurance company that was supposed […]
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Popular Home Security Camera App Quietly Sold Customers Insurance It Was Never Licensed to Sell and Almost Never Paid Out Claims
Washington state regulators fined smart-camera maker Kangaroo Security $80,000 after finding the company had been selling theft-reimbursement plans bundled into its home security app without ever holding a license to […]
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One Hundred Thirty Six Year Old Jail With a Secret Tunnel to the Courthouse Is Up for Grabs and Two Former Mayors Once Lived There
A 136-year-old jailhouse in Evansville, Indiana, built to look like a castle and connected to the county courthouse by a tunnel nobody was ever supposed to need, is now on […]
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Marvel Star Chris Evans Quietly Sold His Hollywood Hills Home for Over Five Million Dollars After Trimming the Original Asking Price
Chris Evans has sold his Hollywood Hills home for over $5 million, closing the deal August 28, 2026 after cutting his original asking price by nearly $2 million over more […]