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Image CEO Jonathan Stanner discusses travel trends, RevPAR drivers, and portfolio...

Shifting RV demographics and a growing appetite for more upscale facilities are helping to fuel upgrades at RV...

Image CEO Darrell Crate says agencies are prioritizing efficiency and...

Retirement is widely portrayed as the reward for decades of work, but many Americans who have already stopped working say that promise is slipping out of reach. Rising costs and inadequate savings are reshaping expectations — and fueling fears — about life after work, according to findings from a recent Clever Real Estate survey. Clever solicited responses from 1,000 American retirees who stopped...

After a long delay caused by the government shutdown, we finally have a new home sales report for October! The report shows that lower mortgage rates, which are now moving toward 6%, are helping to keep new home sales steady, similar to what we see in the existing home sales market. New home sales are still at 2019 levels today, which means they’re not as depressed as the existing home sales market. So,...

Luxury Presence has raised $22 million in a Series C equity financing round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and secured an additional $15 million in debt financing from J.P. Morgan. New funding will support development of Luxury Presence’s new artificial intelligence (AI)–driven customer relationship management platform — Presence CRM. “High-performing agents have years of business buried...

The National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) is urging the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to end its “life of loan” mortgage insurance rule and let borrowers cancel premiums once they’ve paid down their loan to 78% of their home’s value. NAMB believes the policy is outdated and unfair. Current rules mean that many FHA borrowers must pay mortgage insurance premiums (MIP) for as long...

By the time the homebuilding industry reaches Super Bowl LX on Sunday, Feb. 8, the stakes will be unmistakable. That date marks more than the unofficial kickoff to Spring Selling Season, for U.S. homebuilders large and small. It signals the point at which months of price capitulation, incentive layering, cost cutting, and balance-sheet triage either begin to show signs of stabilization—or force...

Luxury has always had a funny relationship with time. Some features go out of fashion not because they were bad, but because tastes swung hard in the opposite direction: less formality, fewer layers, more “clean,” more open, more minimal. But lately? The mood is changing. After years of smooth white walls, bare windows, open shelving, and furniture that tries to disappear, there’s growing...

Sarasota just got a fresh new benchmark for “we’re not playing around anymore.” A newly listed estate at 7366 Point of Rocks Road has officially entered the chat at $26 million, landing as the priciest direct Gulf-front listing currently on the market in the Sarasota region — and one of the highest-priced single-family listings in the county overall. And while there is one nearby listing...