2026

The front entryway is the first thing you and your guests see upon entering your home, so it should make a great impression and set the tone for what’s beyond. At the same time, it needs to function as a practical transition between indoors and out. Whether you have a spacious, seldom-used foyer or...

Office moves tend to look organized on paper. Timelines are set, tasks are assigned, and it all seems manageable. But once the move actually begins, small gaps in planning start to show. Those gaps are usually where downtime comes from, not from the move itself, but from what was not fully accounted for. In places like San Francisco, that challenge can feel sharper because of how the city moves. Traffic...

Image Paul Stanley discusses how REITs are linking sustainability performance to financial outcomes and accessing capital through evolving green finance...

Image As REITs expand globally, they must navigate complex tax rules, jurisdictional differences, and an evolving U.S. regulatory landscape, says Sarah Beth...

The U.S. housing market is entering the second quarter with mounting signs of fatigue, as affordability pressures intensify and sellers begin to lose leverage. Data released by Cotality point to a market that is no longer surging--but not yet correcting--caught between elevated home values and rising ownership costs. While prices remain far above pre-pandemic levels, the pace of growth has slowed to a near...

Median Prices Climb to $6.8 Million in March as Demand Surges  San Francisco's luxury housing market is staging a powerful comeback--one increasingly defined by the rise of artificial intelligence and the wealth it is generating, according to new data from Redfin. Sales of high-end homes in San Francisco climbed 22.2% in March 2026 from a year earlier, the fifth consecutive month of double-digit gains...

“Where’s the upside here?” That’s the question Steve Murray, the co-founder of RealTrends Consulting, keeps coming back to as the industry digests The Real Brokerage’s acquisition of REMAX — and it’s the same question investors appeared to answer swiftly. On the day of the announcement, Real’s stock plunged to $2.02 per share, with trading volume surging to more than 10 times normal...

UWM Holdings Corp. is challenging Two Harbors Investment Corp.’s board after it rejected a $12 per share acquisition proposal in favor of an $11.30 per share deal with CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, issuing a lengthy response that questioned the board’s analysis and process. In a statement on Monday, UWM said “the TWO Board’s interpretation of the numbers don’t reflect the underlying math.” The...

The story of American homebuilding is mostly one of bootstrapped businesses. They mostly get forged in hard circumstances, with a single, almost instantaneous reckoning that there are no shortcuts to success … or even to being around in five years, fighting to achieve it. It requires leaders willing to take risks across land, capital, construction, design, marketing, regulation, talent, and...

In an all-important way, Green Brick Partners operates as an anomaly. The Texas-based homebuilder continues to deliver the highest gross profit margin among public homebuilding peers, and plans to use this margin cushion to its advantage over the quarters ahead. While public homebuilding peers struggle with margins that have eroded to the mid-teens, Green Brick Partners posted an industry-leading...