Real Estate

Talk about timing. A Hawaii property containing a working Christmas tree farm sold as the calendar counted down to the holiday. Set high in the hillside community of Launiupoko on Maui’s west side, the nearly three-acre spread also contains a bungalow, a barn and an orchard with a variety of fruit trees. The site takes

A For Sale sign is seen in front of a home in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The already competitive housing market is getting even more so, and that is now cutting into mortgage demand. Even a small drop in interest rates couldn’t bring more buyers in, although it did boost refinance demand

Housing demand is surging across the board, in contrast to 2020 when demand shifted from apartments to single family houses. Now, both home prices and apartment rents are rising much faster than overall inflation. Yet America’s population is growing at a snail’s pace. Without more people, how can there be demand for more housing? Ignoring

Image Source | Getty Images Fast-growing prices in the housing market, as well as low interest rates, are enticing more investors to buy homes, renovate them quickly and sell them for a profit. But while home flips are rising and investors are expecting growing returns, the profits are falling. Close to 95,000 homes were flipped

Luxury property deals worth at least $4 million in New York City (NYC) went off the market with relative ease in 2021. While this indicates a subsequent short-term increase in prices for luxury properties, a market slowdown may happen in the year ahead, according to a new report. Leading New York City data and market

Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images It looks like it’s going to be another competitive year for homebuyers in 2022. While the market isn’t expected to be as frenzied as this past summer, prices are still predicted to rise. Zillow is forecasting 11% home value growth in 2022, down from a projected 19.5% in 2021.

Mark Twain’s famous words, “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore,” can also be said of structures from his time that are a valued building component today … old barns. Both land and aged lumber apply at this mansion-sized mountain home in Telluride, Colorado. Set on 35 acres, the stone and wood house was built

A sign marks the entrance to the headquarters campus of Sears Holding in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Getty Images The beleaguered department store chain Sears is considering a sale or a redevelopment of its massive corporate headquarters in suburban Chicago, as its retail footprint keeps dwindling. Transformco, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, said the

Dutch Colonial homes are so called because the style originated from American settlers hailing from the Netherlands in the early- to mid-1600s. The giveaway feature is the broad, double-pitched roof that changes angles midway to slope nearly straight down. This gambrel or barn roof allowed attic to be used as living space. A newly constructed

Getty Images While household debt reached a record $17 trillion in the second quarter of 2021, many American households have felt less financial stress this year thanks to Covid-19-related government policies. That’s according to the federal Financial Stability Oversight Council, which released its annual report for 2021 on Friday. The council was created by legislation

New York City has always attracted talent and a hub for progress. And yet, while New York graduates one of the highest numbers of STEM talent each year, the city ranks only sixth in life sciences square footage—behind the Bay Area, Boston and the Research Triangle in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina, among other

Construction workers frame a new home being built by CastleRock Communities in the Sunfield neighborhood of Buda, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Surprisingly strong housing demand, even in the usually slower season for housing, has homebuilders feeling increasingly confident. Builder sentiment in the single-family housing market

When Eddy recently opened its third Los Angeles, Calif.-area co-living community, Eddy East Hollywood, the buzz centered on the company providing a cost-effective option for young Angelenos and LA transplants hard-pressed to find affordable apartments. But despite the fact Eddy East Hollywood opened at the start of the 2021-22 academic year, many overlooked a key

In this article COLM CLBK The days of rock-bottom rates are nearly over. The central bank will aggressively unwind last year’s bond buying sooner than originally planned after recent reports on inflation continued to show a sharp rise in prices. While the Federal Reserve said Wednesday that interest rates will stay near zero for now,

The New York Design Center conducted a poll of over 40 interior designers across the United States, who found that, post-pandemic, we will continue to invest in our homes. Designers determined that, though the real estate market is inflated, 79% of people are still spending money to renovate the homes they purchased. “We’re seeing clients

Homes in Elgin, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images American homeowners are house rich, sitting on a record amount of home equity. Taking advantage of all that extra cash, however, becomes more difficult as interest rates rise. Soaring housing demand over the past year and a half, driven in large part by the

Long a magnet for winter sports enthusiasts, Breckenridge, Colorado, is a year-round destination with a historic Main Street, an annual film festival and an active second-home market. Among the most sought-after residences are ski-in and ski-out houses such as this slope-side three-level along Peak 8, where the mountain first opened runs in 1961. Staircases off

MBPROJEKT_Maciej_Bledowski | iStock | Getty Images For retirees searching for investment income and protection from inflation, one solution may be real estate investment trusts. REITs, as they’re called, are companies that own and/or operate properties like office buildings, shopping malls, apartment complexes and warehouses. While they do come with more risk than some other income-producing

The Hazelton is a Toronto landmark set within the fashionable shopping hub, business district and residential area of Yorkville. The five-star low-rise hotel offers the requisite fine dining, upscale rooms and amenities, but also houses a variety of stylish residences for ownership. This 4,240-square-foot view home designed by Colette Van De Thillart combines European elegance

In this article BTNB Hari Krishnan, chief executive officer of Singapore-based start-up PropertyGuru. Nicky Loh | Bloomberg | Getty Images Southeast Asia’s online real estate company PropertyGuru plans to use proceeds from its public market debut next year for mergers and acquisitions, its CEO Hari V. Krishnan told CNBC. The start-up — which operates in