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Insurers Are Increasingly Using Drone Roof Inspections to Speed Up Storm Damage Insurance Claims Instead of Making Homeowners Wait for Weeks
After a major hailstorm or hurricane, homeowners with damaged roofs have traditionally faced a familiar wait: filing a claim, then sitting for days or weeks until an adjuster can physically […]
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More Homeowners Living Outside Official Flood Zones Are Buying Coverage Anyway After Watching Their Own Neighbors Get Wiped Out by Water
Homeowners who live nowhere near a river, a coastline or a mapped floodplain are increasingly deciding that flood insurance is worth the premium, and the shift is showing up in […]
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Impact Resistant Garage Doors Are Now Earning Hurricane Zone Homeowners Real Insurance Discounts as Demand Climbs Fast in Coastal Storm Markets
Homeowners in hurricane-prone states are increasingly finding that a stronger garage door does more than protect a car and some storage boxes. Insurers in coastal markets now factor impact-rated garage […]
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Insurers Are Now Offering Real Premium Discounts for Homes With Impact Resistant Roofing Materials and Homeowners Are Rushing to Requalify
Homeowners in hail-prone and wind-prone regions are taking a second look at their roofs this fall, and insurance companies are giving them a real financial reason to do it. A […]
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Historic Train Depots That Sat Vacant for Decades Across the Country Are Being Turned Into Some of the Most Unique Homes on the Market Today
For most of the twentieth century, small-town train depots were the busiest buildings on Main Street, handling mail, freight, and passengers until the railroads that built them pulled back and […]
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Belleville’s Historic Skyview Drive In Movie Theater Goes Up for Sale After Nearly Eighty Years in the Same Family With Its Future Now Uncertain
A drive-in screen that has faced the same stretch of Illinois sky since the years after World War II is now listed for sale, and the family who built it […]
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Airplane Hangars From Small Regional Airports Are Being Converted Into Surprisingly Livable Full Size Family Homes All Across the Country
Down a quiet taxiway outside a small regional airport, a homeowner might roll open a hangar door each morning and find the nose of a small plane waiting where most […]
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Buyers Who Keep Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop Are Losing Ground in Nearly Every Scenario That a New Housing Study Actually Modeled
Homebuyers who keep pushing off a purchase in hopes of catching a lower mortgage rate are, in most cases, coming out behind the buyers who go ahead and close now, […]
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Builders Are Adding a Second Kitchen as a Standard Option Now Instead of a Costly Custom Request as Multigenerational Living Keeps Growing
Homebuilders across the country are rethinking what counts as a “standard” floor plan, and the second kitchen is quickly becoming part of that baseline. Rather than treating a full secondary […]
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Builders Are Shrinking New Home Lot Sizes to Near Historic Lows Just to Keep a Starter Home Somewhere Close to Affordable for Today’s Buyers
New homes going up across the country are sitting on some of the smallest lots builders have platted in decades, and the shrinkage is not accidental. Median lot sizes for […]