Managing a design or construction firm can be time-consuming, particularly when you’re busy with several different projects, but it pays to take some time out to analyze your business and plan ahead. Here, a design-build firm director, a landscape design business owner and an interior designer...

Image CEO Marshall Loeb says new supply is at multi-year lows due to zoning and permitting...

Florida markets lead the nation's rent pullback after years of rapid growth Single-family rent growth across the U.S. slowed sharply in October 2025, underscoring a broad normalization in the housing market after years of pandemic-era gains, according to new data from Cotality. Cotality's latest Single-Family Rent Index, which tracks rent changes nationally and across major metropolitan areas, showed...

Experience management platform Rechat is partnering with transaction management platform SkySlope, enabling Rechat to expand its capabilities into forms and e-signatures.  The firms announced the partnership on Dec. 23. According to a press release, the partnership is an expansion of Rechat’s transactions ecosystem and functions as an add-on with Rechat Deals. Through the partnership, agents and...

As the housing industry prepares for 2026, Realtor.com is taking some time to double down on its Let America Build campaign. Initially launched in March 2025, the national campaign advocates for solutions to expand housing supply.  Realtor.com describes the campaign, which calls on lawmakers to make pro-building choices, as an effort to advocate for “solutions that cut through red tape, restrictive...

RMLS Alliance (RMLS-A) is the Broker Public Portal (BPP)’s newest shareholder. In addition, RMLS-A listings are now live on Cribio, the BPP’s public facing portal. The BPP is an industry-led initiative formed by brokerages and multiple listing services (MLSs) that aims to deliver a national MLS home search experience to consumers. RMLS-A serves roughly 1,600 real estate professionals across Illinois...

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 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...