2026

Many homeowners want a home office that feels more like a thoughtfully designed room than a workplace. But accommodating files, printers, computers and charging stations without creating visual clutter can be a challenge. Here, design pros share five home offices that pair smart storage...

With three kids and packed schedules, this Encinitas, California, family needed a kitchen that could keep pace with daily life. The existing 170-square-foot space, dating to the 1990s, had short upper cabinets, expansive beige-brown granite surfaces and cramped circulation paths that...

Government regulations now add more than $130,000 to the cost of a newly built single-family home in the United States, underscoring the growing role of compliance costs in the nation's housing affordability crisis. A new study released by the National Association of Home Builders found that federal, state and local regulations account for $131,734 of the price of an average new home, representing 26.4% of...

Rechat has expanded its platform to allow brokerages, teams, technology providers and vendors to build and deploy custom branded applications directly on top of its real estate operating system. Custom app features are available immediately. The initiative builds on work that began more than a year ago with companies including Douglas Elliman and SERHANT., which developed custom applications using...

Stylecraft Builders, a second-generation-led Texas homebuilder more than four decades in the making, is not letting homebuilding’s underwhelming 2026 Spring Selling Season go to waste.  Nor, in spite of hesitant homebuyer demand plaguing many of Texas’ submarkets, has Stylecraft’s momentum slowed. The homebuilder, which predominantly targets entry-level and move-up buyers outside of the major...

Buffini & Company has added three senior executives — Steve Pacinelli as chief revenue officer, JB Bolton as chief operating officer and Ethan Beute as chief ambassador — as the coaching firm looks to scale its relationship-driven business model in an AI-focused market, the company announced earlier this month. The appointments follow the April promotion of former BombBomb co-founder Darin...

New York state’s most sweeping reform of a 50-year-old environmental review law is on the books. Gov. Kathy Hochul secured the changes as part of the state budget, cutting red tape on housing construction. Developers, municipalities and environmental advocates are watching to see how the law works in practice in the real world. Rules still need to be written. Overhauling the State Environmental...

eXp World Holdings, Inc. has completed its corporate transformation to AGNT, Inc., including a formal name change and a move of its legal domicile from Delaware to Texas, the company announced Thursday. The holding company for eXp Realty, NextHome, FrameVR.io and SUCCESS Enterprises now trades on Nasdaq under the AGNT ticker and will operate under the AGNT, Inc. name going forward. The shift follows the...

Most luxury condos try to feel like houses. This one skips the comparison entirely. Because at nearly 12,000 square feet spread across three levels, Villa Eterna Mare isn’t pretending to be a house. It is one. It just happens to sit inside one of South Florida’s most exclusive oceanfront addresses. Located within The Estates at Acqualina in Sunny Isles Beach, the residence has entered the...

A historic Hudson Valley property that played a supporting role in Ang Lee’s 2009 film Taking Woodstock has come to market in Hillsdale, New York, asking $3.85 million. Known as Southview Farm, the estate spans 27 acres of rolling meadows and countryside with sweeping views of the Taconic Mountains. The property served as a filming location for several scenes in Taking Woodstock, helping recreate...