As the U.S. housing crisis deepens and climate change intensifies, residents of affordable housing are vulnerable to dangerous and sometimes deadly extreme heat, according to new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report, titled “Colliding Crises,” examined nearly 8 million homes in key segments of the affordable housing market — including public and project-based subsidized...

Sea Ranch Lakes just notched a new high-water mark. The newly built Intracoastal estate at 32 Seneca Rd closed for $13,000,000, setting a price record for the gated oceanfront community in Florida — and giving listing agent Veroushka Volkert of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty her second consecutive record here after her $8.7M deal at 7 Seneca Rd in 2023. The sale underscores the appetite for...

The onetime Long Island mansion of “Wolf of Wall Street” figure Jordan Belfort has sold off-market for $6,875,000, marking the highest sale in Old Brookville year-to-date. The discreet deal at 5 Pin Oak Court was handled on the seller side by Joe Scavo of Douglas Elliman. Famous from Belfort’s headline-making years — later immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio...

The West Coast residence of famed interior designer John Saladino has come to market in Montecito at $12,500,000. For design followers, this is a rare chance to buy a home that reflects the “designer’s designer” at a personal level — more than a commission, it’s a place he lived with and refined over time. Saladino’s influence is well documented (in 2013 Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de...

Cloris Leachman knew how to pick a backdrop. Long before she collected an Oscar for The Last Picture Show and Emmys for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, she and husband George Englund settled into a green pocket of lower Mandeville Canyon — and stayed there for nearly three decades. They owned the home from October 1971 to February 2000; and while the original house might be gone, the grounds (rooted...

Having bought this big, beautiful house in London, the owners wanted to rethink the kitchen and living space with longevity in mind. They asked Rebecca Nokes of John Lewis of Hungerford to design it using cabinetry and appliances that would last. They wanted her to think ahead too. “They...

Single-family rent prices across the U.S. edged up just 1.4% in August 2025 compared with a year earlier, marking the slowest annual growth in more than 15 years, according to Cotality's latest Single-Family Rent Index (SFRI). This pace is less than half the 3% increase recorded in the same month a year ago. "Annual single-family rent growth fell to its lowest level in more than 15 years this August,...

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Union Home Mortgage (UHM) has launched a new product suite, UHM Platinum, to broaden its loan offerings and increase its presence in the nonqualified mortgage (non-QM) market. The company said the initiative is part of an effort to strengthen both new and existing relationships with investors and provide greater flexibility in mortgage options. Through UHM Platinum, investors will have access to...

The hits against residential real estate listing portal giant Zillow keep coming. On Tuesday, The Capitol Forum published a report claiming that their research and reporting shows that Zillow’s Flex program could violate the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).  According to the report, agents, many of whom were former Zillow Flex agents, told The Capitol Forum that Zillow requires Flex...