Some homes don’t have anything obviously wrong with them. The layout works. The finishes are decent. The space is clean and functional. And yet, something feels flat. The rooms don’t quite hold your attention, and nothing invites you to linger. That kind of blandness is surprisingly common — especially in newer homes or recently renovated ones where everything was chosen to be safe, neutral,...

When interior designer Carrie Lucke and her husband, Dave, moved into this 1950s Cape Cod-style home in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, they already knew its history. Dave’s parents had owned the home for two decades, and when it returned to the market years later, the couple jumped at the...

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Miami‑Dade County's residential real estate market posted solid performance in February 2026, with robust condo sales and steady single‑family home growth, according to the Miami Association of Realtors. Sales and Prices Total closed home sales increased 9.6% year-over-year. Single-family transactions rose 4.3% to 733 units, marking six consecutive months of growth, while condo sales surged 14.7% to...

Following in the footsteps of an initial dataset for 2025, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) and HECMWorld published updated numbers this week for reverse mortgage broker and third-party originator activity. While the top Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) originators for January 2026 did not vary from 2025 as a whole, they offer insight into which companies hit the ground running in 2026 — a year...

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) moved Monday to formally separate access to its multiple listing service (MLS) from mandatory membership with the National Association of Realtors (NAR) — a change the organization’s leader said is aimed at expansion and risk management. MRED offers wholesale listing data and technology to roughly 40 partner Realtor associations and MLSs across the Midwest. These...

New Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s first-year housing agenda delivered new money and new tools for affordable housing preservation, but it fell short on the package’s biggest supply-side proposal: a statewide push to allow multifamily housing by right in many commercially zoned areas. A pair of bills would have required local zoning codes to allow multifamily and mixed-use residential...

Compass is dismissing its antitrust lawsuit against Zillow over the listing portal giant’s listing access standards policy. The Robert Reffkin-helmed firm filed its motion to dismiss the lawsuit without prejudice, meaning that Compass could file another lawsuit against Zillow with similar claims in the future, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday.  Compass said...

President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting mortgages addresses several concerns raised by banks and nonbanks, which have largely welcomed it as a road map for regulatory change. But it’s also receiving pushback from consumer advocates.Friday’s order on “promoting access to mortgage credit” aims to boost lending by community banks (with less than $30 billion in assets) and smaller banks...

Some homes look perfect on paper. They have the square footage, the finishes, the location, and the kind of design that photographs beautifully. But once you step inside, something doesn’t quite land. It’s rarely one obvious flaw. More often, it’s a collection of small decisions that don’t quite align — subtle imbalances in light, proportion, layout, or flow that create a quiet sense of...