2025

High above Midtown, across from the Museum of Modern Art and just steps from Fifth Avenue, a rare penthouse offering has surfaced at the top of the Baccarat Hotel & Residences. Priced at $15.25 million, Penthouse 43 spans the building’s entire uppermost floor and pairs internationally acclaimed architecture by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) with interior design by Tony Ingrao, one of the...

In Los Angeles’ ritzy Hancock Park — an enclave already known for character homes and long Hollywood ties — a century-old Mediterranean villa with rare pedigree and a long line of notable residents has surfaced for just under $10 million. Designed and built in 1925 by Weston & Weston, AIA, the son and father duo behind many of the city’s municipal and commercial buildings, the estate has...

Colorado mountain homes with big views and modern architecture don’t usually land below the seven-figure mark — but this new retreat outside Idaho Springs is an exception. Set on reclaimed mining acreage and perched at 9,600 feet, the home blends contemporary design, sustainable engineering, and the kind of seclusion that feels worlds away, even though downtown Denver is less than an hour down the...

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While interior designers have the creative job of choosing paint colors for a project, it’s the build team who apply them to the walls, ceilings and woodwork. On this project — a Georgian-era London home that glows with warm and surprising colors — painting with those shades was as enjoyable as...

At the trade-only High Point Market in North Carolina, the biggest buzz often surrounds new and returning collaborations between leading designers and home furnishing brands. That was certainly true at the fall 2025 market, held Oct. 25-29, where fresh partnerships debuted with fanfare across...

Existing-home sales are on track to climb roughly 14% in 2026, marking a long-awaited turning point for a market that has weathered years of rising borrowing costs and tight inventory, according to National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Lawrence Yun Yun said the anticipated upswing is being driven by gradually improving mortgage rates, steady employment growth, and broadening...

After much build up, the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) 2026-2028 Strategic Plan was unsurprisingly approved unanimously by all 64 members of NAR’s Executive Committee during a meeting on Sunday at NAR’s 2025 NXT conference in Houston.  The plan, which incorporates 75 projects that fall underneath 24 initiatives, will be implemented on January 1, 2026. However, NAR leaders have...

It has only been 51 years since the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, which made it illegal for lenders to refuse to give a woman a mortgage based on her marital status, opening the door to homeownership for single or divorced women across the country. As the National Association of Realtors (NAR) looks ahead to its 2027 leadership team, the organization is preparing to be headed by two...

Although some may be uncertain about how things will shake out for the real estate industry in 2026, the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) chief economist Lawrence Yun is one person airing on the side of optimism.  In 2026, Yun said he is expecting existing home sales to rise 14% year-over-year, which he is attributing to easing mortgage rates, continued job gains and improving market...