2026

Winter changes how a home works. Lamps stay on longer. Furniture shifts closer together. Heavy fabrics and layered textures build warmth and comfort while the outside world stays gray. But when spring arrives, those same choices can start to feel slightly off. Interior designers almost always respond to the season; not with full renovations, but with smaller, strategic resets that help a home feel...

Winter is forgiving. Short days and low, gray light hide a lot, from dull fabrics to dusty corners or styling choices that made sense when everything outside was bare. Spring changes that overnight. Longer days and brighter sun pour into rooms at new angles, hitting surfaces that haven’t seen direct light in months. Suddenly, things look different. That cozy wool throw feels heavy. That...

When it comes to flooring, “warm” was the word at The International Surface Event held earlier this year in Las Vegas. The last few years have seen a warming up of colors in wood-look flooring, with midtones now dominating new collections of hardwood, laminate and luxury vinyl planks. The...

Image Each month, Nareit highlights recent executive career moves, board changes, and other notable individual achievements and developments within the REIT and publicly listed real estate...

Rents Surged in 2025 as Supply Hits 20-Year Low in 2026 Ireland's rental market tightened dramatically in early 2026, with nationwide rents climbing 4.4% in 2025 amid record-low supply, according to the latest quarterly Rental Report from property portal Daft.ie. The report, authored by Ronan Lyons, professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin, shows market rents accelerated from a 3.6% increase in...

Spring is right around the corner and mortgage rates are already under 6%, but now we have a new variable: war with Iran. Now the question is whether the conflict in Iran will send rates lower or higher before the seasonal push in housing comes.  Last week was already interesting as the 10-year yield closed at a key level and mortgage rates finished the week under 6%. However, with this weekend’s...

Your heating and cooling system works hard throughout the winter, so before spring arrives, make sure to perform this routine maintenance task to avoid any major...

For this Toronto couple, downsizing from their house uptown to an urban condo didn’t mean giving up a garden. “They had a beautiful garden at their house, and they wanted to have one at this home,” says landscape architect Kate Fox-Whyte. Creating a sky garden became the driving idea behind the...

Just months after loanDepot‘s Alex Madonna was named to a new role to focus on emerging technology, artificial intelligence and modern sales structures, it was announced that he’s departing the company. Madonna, who was most recently loanDepot’s executive vice president of direct lending and spent 16 years at the company, confirmed the news in a LinkedIn post on Friday afternoon. “After 16...

The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) this week sent a letter to a New Jersey lawmaker, stating its opposition to a legislative proposal tied to reverse mortgage counseling requirements in the Garden State. The letter is addressed to state Sen. Shirley Turner (D), the sponsor of New Jersey Senate Bill 264, which creates “pre-loan counseling requirements and borrower rights of...