2025

U.S. homebuyers continued making historically large down payments in late 2024, responding to a year of record-high upfront housing costs, according to a Realtor.com report. The typical down payment in the fourth quarter was $30,250, slightly below the previous quarter but roughly $3,000 above results from late-2023. For all of 2024, buyers put down an average of $29,900, or 14.4% of the purchase...

Is virtual staging finally ready for its close-up? We think it is. The days of AI-staged photos that look more like Salvador Dali paintings than comfy living rooms or HGTV-ready kitchens are long gone. The images today’s virtual staging companies can create using AI are shockingly realistic and, dare we say it, stylish. AI can create virtually staged images to match any trendy interior design style you...

Former NFL star Mike Pouncey has just listed his Fort Lauderdale mansion — which comes with a massive waterfront football field! The football field, branded with the team’s logo, pays tribute to Pouncey’s career and his past as a first-round draft pick for the Miami Dolphins. Cool as it may be, the waterfront football field is far from the house’s only attribute. Located in Fort...

These Boston-area parents of two tweens wanted a kitchen that would respect the architecture of their 1930s Colonial Revival home and express their personal style. However, it was more pressing challenges that made them decide to take the space down to the studs. “The awkward layout was the biggest...

According to the latest data from Knight Frank, prime rental growth across 16 key cities slowed in the final quarter of 2024, with rents rising by 2.2% over the past year -- the slowest pace in more than three years. Knight Frank's Prime Global Rental Index (PGRI) recorded annual growth of 2.2%, marking its lowest rate since mid-2021. This decline follows a steady drop from a peak of 11.4% in Q1 2022, now...

Image Malhotra says senior consumers will become a “much more relevant piece of the...

If you’ve been thinking about becoming a real estate agent in Connecticut, you’ve landed on the right page. You’ll need to complete 60 hours of pre-licensing education to be eligible to sit for the real estate exam. After you’ve passed, post-licensing and continuing education courses will be required to keep you at the top of your game. From initial licensing to maintaining your license, our...

In an extraordinary move stemming from a 2020 redlining lawsuit, an official working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) at the behest of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) alleges that the bureau improperly sought a lawsuit against Chicago-based nonbank mortgage lender and brokerage Townstone Financial, according to court filings reviewed by HousingWire. Dan Bishop,...

Under the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) new Multiple Listing Options policy, the trade group is allowing listing agents, with the signed consent and direct permission of their seller client, to delay publicly marketing a listing through Internet Data Exchange (IDX) feeds and syndication.  While this means delayed marketing listings will not appear on listing portals that use IDX feeds,...

While many measurements of retirement readiness suggest that older Americans will fall short of maintaining their quality of life after completing their careers, the overwhelming majority of retirees (92%) report in surveys that they are either “moderately” or “very” satisfied. This disconnect may mean that retirement satisfaction surveys may not be the most helpful tools for those seeking...