2026

Investors at D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. are joining Third Point Investments in calling for CoStar to either divest or shut down Homes.com.  On Wednesday, Edwin Jager and Michael O’Mary, two managing directors at D.E. Shaw, sent an open letter to CoStar Group’s board or directors, expressing their “continued disappointment” with what they say is the board’s “refusal to address the Company’s...

A massive private island in the northern Bahamas — once owned by a high-profile investor group that included pop superstar Shakira and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters — is back on the market for $30 million. The 650-acre island, known as Bonds Cay, sits in the Berry Islands and is being listed by Gavin Christie of Corcoran CA Christie Bahamas. This marks the first time the island has been publicly...

One of the grandest surviving estates of America’s Gilded Age — a sprawling Vanderbilt summer palace known as Elm Court — is preparing for its most ambitious reinvention yet. Stretching across nearly 89 acres between Lenox and Stockbridge, the legendary property was built in the late 1880s for Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and her husband William Douglas Sloane. At roughly 55,000 square feet and...

Not that long ago, houses were built around a very specific set of expectations. Where you answered the phone. How you hosted guests. Which rooms were meant to be used daily, and which of them were basically for show. Whole floor plans revolved around routines that feel almost funny now. And slowly, without much announcement, modern living broke most of those rules. Some for the better. Some out of...

A construction expert explains how to identify and fix poor attic...

With a little bit of effort, gardens can be just as beautiful through the coldest months of the year as they are during the warm season. Stripped free of deciduous leaves and showy flowers, winter gardens shine with subtle textures and the stately forms of evergreen trees and shrubs. Here are a...

Image Mortgage REITs (mREITs) finance income-producing real estate by originating or purchasing mortgages and mortgage-backed securities (MBS), generating income from the interest on these...

Homeowner equity across the United States softened modestly in the final months of 2025, signaling a housing market that is losing some of the rapid momentum built during the pandemic-era boom but still resting on a comparatively solid financial foundation. New data from ATTOM show that 44.6% of mortgaged residential properties were classified as "equity-rich" in the fourth quarter, meaning outstanding...

Scrolling an MLS feed that looks and feels more like social media is now an option for real estate agents in California. California Regional MLS (CRMLS) reached a new agreement to offer Tuesday — its mobile MLS application designed around social-style feeds and interactions — at no additional cost through the CRMLS Marketplace. The Tuesday app connects directly to MLS data and presents market...

A new ATTOM analysis released Tuesday shows that U.S. homeowners ended 2025 with slightly less equity than earlier in the year, but they still held historically strong positions as the housing market steadied after several years of rapid price gains. Attom’s Q4 2025 U.S. Home Equity and Underwater Report found that 44.6% of mortgaged residential properties were equity rich, meaning that loan balances...