July 2024

It doesn’t happen all too often, but sometimes, just sometimes, sprawling mansions with intricate finishes manage to land that perfect blend of upscale elegance and bright, inviting interiors. And this elegant European-style home overlooking beautiful Bellwood Lake in Tyler, Texas, is the perfect example of that. The 8,189-square-foot home — listed for $2,750,000 with The Agency’s Vanessa...

As a real estate investor, you are well aware that you will need access to important data in order to make the best possible investment decisions. Real estate investing...

A raspberry trellis is essential for easy harvesting and keeping your brambles from running wild. Brie Passano Raspberry canes produce big yields of succulent berries when planted in full sun and rich, well-draining soil. To make your brambles grow even better and simplify harvesting, a raspberry trellis is the way to go. Not only does trellising keep raspberry plants tidier and easier to...

They sound and feel so much better than your typical keyboard. Eggy Sayoga / Getty Images As the popularity of laptops increased, so did the popularity of specialty keyboards. Rarely will you see someone whip out their laptop at a coffee shop and plug in a second keyboard—no, they're using their laptop with the keyboard that comes attached to the machine.Then, the pandemic happened.Before 2020,...

Shopping for a new sink? This guide covers the most common sink materials and the considerations to make for each. BHG/Adelyn Duchala Sinks add style and functionality to any space, but with so many options available, searching for the right fit can be a confusing process. Choosing the type of sink can be hard enough, but then you'll have to settle on a material, too. Each sink material has its...

Including top-rated styles from our BHG collection. Walmart Cottagecore continues to be a popular aesthetic, and many components of the design style will always be “in.” Quilts, for example, are a charming bedding option that adds texture to your space while offering a lightweight layer for summer, making it an obvious choice during the extreme heatwave we’re experiencing. If you’re...

Aldi’s July collection includes a hyper-affordable full bed set. Aldi; Design: Better Homes & Gardens Moving can be a daunting experience, whether you’re setting up a new apartment, house, or going off on your own for the first time in a dorm room. There are a few basics you will absolutely need: toilet paper, eating utensils, a phone charger, pillows, and sheets among them.Finding...

Median Home Price Jumps to Record High of $426,900 According to the National Association of Realtors, U.S. existing-home sales fell in June 2024 as the median sales price climbed to the highest price ever recorded for the second consecutive month. All four major U.S. regions posted sales declines. Year-over-year, sales waned in the Northeast, Midwest and South but were unchanged in the West. Total...

Mortgage and real estate executives attending HousingWire‘s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit in Dallas on Tuesday have already begun to collect some lessons learned from Friday’s global tech outage as the world is still dealing with its consequences.  Different companies were impacted to different degrees by the problem, but executives said it validates their decision to invest in in-house...

AARP, the interest group advocating for the wellbeing of older Americans, revealed in a policy paper this month its priorities for a national plan on aging that sufficiently recognizes the changing demographics of the U.S. population, and the trend that will see 20% of all Americans become at least the age of 65 by 2030. “While other countries are responding to these changes by developing and...