Beauty, innovation, functionality, technology, and sustainability. These were the themes at the heart of the 63rd Salone del Mobile, or Milan Furniture Fair, held April 8-13. This year’s trade show welcomed 2,100 exhibitors, including many newcomers and an ever-growing international...

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Homes Take Longer to Sell as Price Growth Decelerates New data from Redfin reveals that the typical U.S. home that went under contract in March 2025 spent 47 days on the market -- the longest median time for any March since 2019. By contrast, homes were selling in less than half that time during the height of the pandemic's homebuying surge. March 2025 marked five years since COVID-19 was declared a...

Zillow-owned CRM platform Follow Up Boss has notified API partners that beginning on May 7 call recordings and the contents of text messages will no longer be available via API.  Follow Up Boss notified partners of this move on Thursday via an email obtained by HousingWire.  According to the email, Ylopo, MaverickRE and Shilo.ai will not be impacted by the change. “We’re currently working...

The Alexanders have one less legal problem to worry about. A San Francisco judge approved of a settlement between white-label brokerage Side and the defunct brokerage Official Partners on Side’s breach of contract lawsuit in which it accused Tal and Oren Alexander of defaulting on a loan.  Side filed the complaint in October claiming that the brothers committed multiple events of default on a $4.2...

An international law firm with more than 1,600 attorneys active across 32 U.S. cities and in London recently released a podcast episode entirely about the legal complexity — and overlooked details in litigation — of reverse mortgages. Troutman Pepper Locke LLP is estimated to be one of the 50 largest law firms in the U.S., and releases several podcasts, including one called “The Consumer Finance...

The entire staff of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) has reportedly been placed on leave at the behest of DOGE, the government cost-cutting arm inside the White House led by billionaire Elon Musk. This is according to reports published by Bloomberg and NPR. The move reportedly occurred on April 15, with all 13 USICH staff members being notified by its acting director that they will...

More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions on Thursday, sources told WIRED. There were around 1,700 employees in total at the CFPB. Fox Business reports that around 1,500 workers will receive RIF notices across core functions, based on an unnamed source. This move is the latest in the Trump administration‘s latest action in cleaning...

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