Virtual staging — once a simple tool for digitally adding furniture — is rapidly evolving into a powerful and sometimes controversial force in real estate marketing as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes what’s possible. To understand where the line is drawn between enhancement and misrepresentation, it helps to start with the people who enforce the rules. Edward Zorn, vice president and...

Growing up in poverty in Chicago, Realty of America founder and CEO Eddie Garcia, remembers going to the Archdiocese of Chicago on Tuesdays each week as a child to pick up a small box of food for his family.  “I came from extreme poverty,” Garcia said. “Both of my parents were homeless, living under highway overpasses in Mexico City. We came to America when I was three, and we arrived to a...

The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) has launched an eight-city Affordable Homeownership Bus Tour aimed at closing the Black homeownership gap by bringing housing education, lending resources and policy conversations directly into local communities. The tour, led by NAREB President Ashley Thomas III, will visit Philadelphia; Baltimore; Detroit; Gary, Indiana; Kansas City, Missouri;...

Foreclosure activity accelerated in the first quarter of 2026, with signs of mounting operational pressure for mortgage servicers and downstream vendors, according to ATTOM’s latest U.S. Foreclosure Market Report and insights from industry executives. While overall foreclosure volumes remain below pre-Great Recession peaks, starts, completions and real estate-owned (REO) inventories are climbing,...

Nestled in the mountains of Malibu, California, this 1970s home blends Spanish Revival and Rancho California architectural styles. But a 1990s kitchen remodel had disrupted that harmony, leaving the space feeling disconnected from the home’s roots.The homeowners, an empty-nest...

Image EPRI’s Steven Rose recommends treating investments in electrification, resilience, and on-site generation as risk management...

Fitwel announced its 2026 Best in Building Health® winners, celebrating organizations that are embedding health as a long-term strategy for protecting asset value, managing risk, and strengthening portfolio...

Image . Real estate, and REITs in particular, play an important part of the alternative investment landscape, Sharma...

Falling Home Values Fail to Ease Tax Burden A slight cooling in U.S. home prices did little to relieve pressure on homeowners in 2025, as property taxes climbed to nearly $400 billion and effective tax rates reached their highest level in five years, underscoring the growing disconnect between market values and local tax burdens. New figures from ATTOM show that local governments levied $396.8 billion in...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is reversing course and throwing support behind a proposed annual tax on high-end second homes in New York City. Hochul, who had previously resisted the measure, now says affluent property owners — particularly those with multimillion-dollar second homes — should help shoulder the burden of growing revenue gaps. The proposed “pied-à-terre” tax would apply to...