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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 […]
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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 […]