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This easy DIY beadboard installation brought my bathroom back to 1917 and only took one...

The low, beamed ceiling in this room in a centuries-old English house presented a challenge for kitchen specialist firm Chisholm Design. They had been tasked with creating a kitchen here where there once was none. In doing so, they needed to incorporate plentiful storage without the space feeling...

Image Melinda McLaughlin says customers are no longer waiting for “perfect information” in order to...

California's housing market closed out 2025 with modest gains in sales, signaling resilience amid cooling prices and shifting mortgage dynamics. For the fourth consecutive month, home sales rose from both the previous month and year, with annual activity finishing just shy of 1% above 2024 levels. Data from the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) show that closed escrow sales of existing...

During his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday President Donald Trump outlined three policy initiatives he was undertaking to help improve housing affordability for American consumers. In the speech, he did discuss his “ban” on large institutional investors purchasing single-family homes, his direction to the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to acquire up to $200 billion...

The Trump administration has rolled back a series of health care regulations affecting nursing homes, home care workers and Medicare beneficiaries — scrapping minimum staffing standards and launching a new experiment that expands prior authorization in traditional Medicare. The changes reverse years of advocacy efforts by consumer groups and labor organizations. They are expected to affect care...

The Philadelphia City Council has advanced a proposal to create PhillySaves, a city-sponsored automated retirement savings program designed to reach private sector workers whose employers do not offer retirement benefits. City officials said the initiative aims to expand access to retirement savings while placing minimal administrative burdens on employers. Under legislation approved by the council,...

We’ve said it before. When D.R. Horton reports its quarterly earnings, what you’re watching isn’t just the scoreboard of America’s largest homebuilder. You’re watching a business model operating at a different altitude — and with different oxygen — than almost every other homebuilding enterprise in the country. And when it performs, the implications go far beyond its own margins and growth...

A group of Pennsylvania lawmakers wants to scrap local limits on shared living in a move that could reopen the door to boarding houses, single-room occupancy buildings, and other shared housing statewide.​ House Bill 2109 – with support from seven state legislators signing on sponsor a committee vote – would bar municipalities from using zoning or housing codes to limit the number of unrelated...

Some New York apartments are expensive because they’re big. Others because they’re in the right neighborhood. And then there are the rare ones that cost what they cost because they’re basically a piece of architecture-history-you-can-live-in. That’s the case with a newly listed residence in West Chelsea, where a full-floor home inside architect Shigeru Ban’s iconic Metal Shutter House has hit...