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Real Estate Agents Say a Rising Number of House Hunters Now Show up to Open Houses With a Professional Inspector in Tow Before Ever Making an Offer
A growing number of house hunters are no longer waiting for a signed contract to bring in a professional. Instead, they are showing up to open houses and early showings […]
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Families Who Make Well Above the Median Household Income Are Still Getting Outbid on Starter Homes, and the Math Behind Why Is Genuinely Hard to Watch Unfold
A family earning $106,800 a year, the national median household income as of the first quarter of 2026, would still need to hand over roughly a third of that income […]
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New Home Sales Data Has Confirmed What Builders Have Been Quietly Admitting for Months, That the Smallest and Cheapest Homes Are the Only Ones Actually Still Selling
New home sales fell 10.5% in July from the month before, dropping to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 607,000 homes, according to the Census Bureau’s July 2026 New Residential […]
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Adjustable Rate Mortgages Are Quietly Making a Comeback as Buyers Try Almost Anything They Can Think of to Make the Monthly Payment Finally Pencil Out
The share of homebuyers choosing adjustable-rate mortgages has climbed to 8.0% of all mortgage applications, the highest level in five weeks, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s weekly survey. The […]
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Lighthouse Keeper’s Cottage That Once Guided Ships Through a Treacherous Coastline Is for Sale for the First Time in Decades, and the Buyer Inherits the Actual Light Tower
Getting to this house requires a boat. Smith Point Lighthouse sits roughly 2.5 miles offshore in the Potomac River near Reedville, Virginia, and the only way in is a marina […]
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Retired Firehouse With Its Original Brass Pole Still Bolted to the Ceiling Has Been Converted Into a Private Residence, and the Listing Leans Into Every Bit of the History
The garage doors still swing open the way they did for the trucks. Above them, embossed in the concrete, “Engine No. 44” marks a building that spent half a century […]
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A Yorkshire Couple Bought the Worst House on Their Street for £135,000, and Their Finished Renovation Sold for Nearly Triple That Price
Kelsey was 19 and Brad was 21 when they bought a corner house in South Yorkshire that had sat empty for years, its walls streaked with mold and its back […]
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Hotel Chains Are Quietly Winning Back Travelers Who Swore off Vacation Rentals After Years of Surprise Cleaning Fees and Keyless Check Ins Gone Wrong at the Worst Possible Moment
Sixty-two percent of American travelers now say they prefer a hotel over a short-term rental like Airbnb or Vrbo for holiday travel, according to a new survey — a number […]
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Vrbo Has Rolled Out New Guest Protections and Host Reputation Scores After Years of Complaints About Listings That Looked Nothing Like Their Photos Once Guests Arrived
Vrbo has spent the past several years quietly rebuilding the rulebook for its hosts, after a long stretch of traveler complaints about listings that bore little resemblance to their photos, […]
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Court Has Ruled That HOAs Have No Legal Duty to Referee Fights Between Neighbors, and the Decision Could Reshape How Thousands of Communities Handle Property Disputes
An appeals court has ruled that homeowners associations have no legal duty to step in and prevent fights between neighbors, a decision that could reshape how liability gets assigned the […]