REMAX adds two major Toronto brokerages from Royal LePage

REMAX is making moves north of the border. On Thursday, the real estate brokerage franchisor announced the conversion of two large Royal LePage-affiliated firms serving the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).  Together, the two firms represent roughly 1,200 agents and 17 offices, including 16 in the GTA.  Royal LePage Your Community Realty and Royal LePage Connect Realty are owned and led by Vivian Risi,...

US foreclosure filings rise 14% in 2025 as FHA borrowers face greater risk

Foreclosure filings were reported on 367,460 U.S. properties in 2025, up 14% from 2024 and up 3% from 2023. Foreclosure filings in 2025 were also down 87% from a peak of nearly 2.9 million in 2010. That’s according to ATTOM‘s Year-End 2025 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, released Thursday, which is based on publicly recorded and published foreclosure filings collected in more than 3,000 counties...

18 details interior designers always notice right away

Interior designers see houses differently than everyone else. They’re not just registering whether a space looks “nice” — they’re clocking proportion, light, flow, and the quiet decisions that tell them how the home was actually put together. And the funny part is, many of the things designers notice instantly aren’t the big-ticket items. They’re not always looking for the most expensive...

17 Home trends everyone loved in the 2000s that aged surprisingly badly

The early 2000s were a very specific era in American home design. Houses were getting bigger, the housing market was booming, HGTV was becoming a full-time lifestyle influence, and “upgrade culture” was in full swing. Design choices weren’t meant to be subtle—they were meant to be noticed. A lot of the decade’s most popular trends weren’t bad ideas in theory. In fact, many were genuinely...

U.S. Home Sales Hit Three-Year High in December as Rates Ease

U.S. existing-home sales rebounded sharply in December 2025, posting their strongest seasonally adjusted pace in nearly three years as easing mortgage rates and slower price growth began to thaw a market that has been frozen by affordability pressures. Sales rose 5.1% from November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.35 million, according to data released by the National Association of Realtors. The...

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