2026

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has proposed replacing its existing Duty to Serve (DTS) regulation with an outcome-based framework that would change how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac support manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation and rural housing. The proposal, released in a notice of proposed rulemaking on Wednesday, would emphasize chattel loans, broaden how Low-Income Housing...

A fiendishly brilliant advertising copywriter working for Benetton during the “hanging chads” Presidential election controversy in 1992 took a circa-1973 Yogi Berraism and transformed it for a New York City billboard on the heavily trafficked northbound West Side Highway. “It ain’t Oval ‘til it’s Oval!” the message read, as the matter made its way up to the Supreme Court. So the line...

For a decade, the housing industry has waited for a “silver tsunami,” a wave of homes released as older owners downsize or pass away. The wave has not arrived on schedule, and recent data suggests it may never break the way it was predicted. But the homes that trickle on to the market have something in common. They tend to arrive at the market in poor condition to sell and full of a lifetime of...

Northeast Ohio real estate agent Tracy Jones is setting a top-ranked transaction pace after overcoming some of life’s most difficult circumstances. Today, her Keller Williams-affiliated real estate team ranks No. 1 in Ohio among medium teams for transaction sides on RealTrends Verified’s rankings — with 300 sides and $56.4 million in volume in 2025. The Tracy Jones Team, headquartered in...

AARP, the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to serving older Americans, on Wednesday announced more than $8 million in grants across the country. The funds aim to make communities more livable, with specific targets toward improving housing, public spaces, transportation and digital connectivity. As part of the 10th anniversary of the nonprofit’s Community Challenge grant program,...

The Standard has built its reputation on creating places people don’t simply stay in — they talk about them afterward. From Miami Beach and New York to London and Los Angeles, the hospitality brand has become synonymous with a certain kind of lifestyle: social, design-driven, slightly irreverent, and always plugged into the neighborhood around it. Now, for the first time in its history, The...

There are renovations. There are gut renovations. And then there are projects like this one, where almost nothing survives except the address. A newly listed estate in Rancho Santa Fe’s coveted Covenant community is being marketed as a reimagining, but that may actually understate what happened here. By the time designer Susan Spath and builder Greg Agee finished their work, virtually every...

A growing number of real estate companies are now using some form of AI-powered software. The adoption spans across a few use cases but none is more consequential for...

For many people, Fourth of July fireworks mean an annual celebration marked by barbecues, family gatherings and enchanting bursts of colorful light. For many pets, though, those same bursts of light and sound can be terrifying and disorienting, causing reactions ranging from destroying...

Image CEO Dallas Tanner sees growing demand for flexible housing...