Even though down payments remain an obstacle to prospective homebuyers across the country, affordability conditions have improved significantly in the past three years. That’s the key takeaway from a Realtor.com report released Monday. The company found that across the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, the typical household in 2025 needs seven years to save for a down payment. That’s down from 12 years...

November’s declining mortgage rates enticed more homebuyers to come off the sidelines, resulting in an uptick for the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI).  According to NAR data released Monday, pending home sales were up 3.3% month over month in November, as the PHSI rose to a reading of 79.2. On an annual basis, the PHSI was up 2.6%. An index reading of 100 is...

One of the most noticeable differences between everyday homes and high-end ones isn’t the finishes or the furniture: it’s the absence of visual noise. Expensive houses tend to feel calm, ordered, and composed, even when people are actively living in them. That sense of ease isn’t accidental, and it isn’t the result of constant tidying. Luxury homes are designed with clutter in mind from the...

A rare, oversized residence has just hit the market inside one of Los Angeles’ most discreet and tightly guarded luxury towers. Unit 1904 at The Carlyle Residences is now listed for $5.75 million, offering a combination of size, privacy, and separation that almost never comes up in the building. The listing is being handled by Revel Real Estate agents Ben Bacal and Lee Jackson, who brought the...

A new boutique waterfront project is officially rising on Bay Harbor Islands. 9900 West, a seven-story residential building with just 23 residences and a private marina, has completed its structural top-off, offering the first inside look as construction reaches a major milestone. Developed by The Horizon Group, the project is nearly 50 percent sold and moving steadily toward a planned Summer 2026...

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Miami-Dade County's housing market demonstrated continued strength in the single-family segment in November 2025, with sales posting a third consecutive monthly increase despite elevated borrowing costs and growing inventory, data from the Miami Association of Realtors showed. Existing single-family home transactions rose 5.3% year-over-year to 754, underscoring the sector's durability. The median price...

Purchase application data had its first positive year in many years in 2025, meaning we had more positive than negative week-to-week data, and most of the year was positive year over year in almost every weekly print. However, existing home sales will likely be only slightly higher in 2025 than in 2024. So how could we have only slight year-over-year growth when we had 46 weeks of positive...