The first showing now happens on a screen. By the time a buyer contacts an agent about a property -- whether it's a downtown condo, a suburban family home, or a pre-construction unit in a new development -- they've typically already toured it digitally, compared it against a shortlist, and formed most of their opinion. That shift has quietly raised the stakes for every asset in an online listing. And it...
For generations, fortunes in real estate were built on a simple premise: buy valuable property, hold it, and wait for appreciation. But as artificial intelligence reshapes industries from finance to healthcare, a growing number of investors are beginning to ask a different question: What if the greatest opportunity in real estate is no longer the property itself? The answer may lie in the digital...
Image Bujnicki describes how the focus of investor relations has shifted from net asset value and portfolio management to earnings growth and how companies are managing their cost of...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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