Housing starts increased in April compared with a year ago, but a deeper dive into the data reveals that this uptick was driven by a noisier boost in multifamily development activity, while single-family starts declined.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s new residential construction data released on Thursday, housing starts, on a seasonally adjusted basis, ticked up 4.6% year-over-year but fell...

Real estate professionals across the Greater Chicagoland area awoke Wednesday to find their listings removed from Zillow, as the fight between the listing portal giant and the local MLS, Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), which already includes an antitrust lawsuit, escalated.  On Wednesday morning, MRED announced that it was suspending listing data feeds to Zillow and Trulia after the portal...

A new real estate brokerage aims to eliminate traditional listing agents and listing fees altogether — a model its founder says could challenge decades-old assumptions about agent compensation. Showings announced it will officially launch May 22 in New York City, Atlanta, Chicago and Orlando. The company describes itself as the first nationwide real estate brokerage built without traditional...

Some houses are expensive because they’re large. Others are expensive because they’re rare. And then there are homes like Miramar — where the real story is architectural pedigree. Perched atop a private hill in Mill Neck with wide-open views across Oyster Bay and Centre Island, the estate at 233 Cleft Road is one of only two known Nassau County homes designed by legendary architect Robert A....

After purchasing a classic 1940s bungalow stripped of its original charm, these Seattle parents of two young boys turned to interior designer Jessica Nelson to restore it. Their goal was to reintroduce character through architectural details while keeping the...

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U.S. housing vacancies held steady in the second quarter of 2026 even as "zombie" foreclosures ticked higher in several regions, signaling a slow normalization in distressed-property activity, according to a new report from ATTOM Data Solutions. Across the country's 104.9 million residential properties, roughly 1.4 million homes--about 1.3%--were vacant in Q2, unchanged from both the prior quarter and the...

Image Bodner says global investors have raised their planned U.S. allocation from 11% to 16% during the last...

The late, legendary Bob Toll once laid bare the fact that he was personally incapable of installing a curtain rod in a living room, let alone knowing the first thing about building a home from the ground up. What Bob did intuit was that the second-floor walls of a typical 1960s two-story home could be bumped out to be flush with the first-floor building enclosure, creating palpably more square footage...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a detailed deregulation roadmap aimed at state and local governments that, it argues, could lower per-unit costs and shorten cycle times for homebuilders. HUD’s new “State and Local Best Practices for Home Construction” report offers a set of recommended policy changes that target permitting fees, building codes,...