Homeownership is the top means by which the typical American accumulates and builds wealth, and that has never been truer than today. Homeowners are the winners in today’s housing market, experiencing large gains in home equity across the board. These gains allow homeowners to make all-cash purchases on their next homes, remodel or sit on their wealth. While the stock market is for Wall Street, real...

Atlas VMS is integrating HomeVision’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven collateral underwriting and appraisal review technology into AIM-Port, the company’s appraisal order management system. The company says the move is intended to reduce manual review work for lenders and appraisal management companies while improving consistency and overall appraisal quality. HomeVision’s system uses...

Most short-term rental analytical tools show you snapshots. But serious investors, analysts, and developers need strong time-series data they can model, transform, and integrate into custom analytics pipelines. Without...

When one of America’s most influential retail titans decides to part with his personal residence, the result is rarely subtle. That’s exactly the case in Key Biscayne, where American Eagle CEO Jay Schottenstein has brought his ultra-private, statement-making penthouse to market for $33.9 million with Julian Johnston and Jonathan Lifschutz of The Corcoran Group. Floating high above the shoreline,...

Pantone is keeping things quiet — intentionally. The color institute’s 2026 Color of the Year, Cloud Dancer, is a crisp, whisper-soft white with just a hint of warmth, chosen as a calming counterpoint to an increasingly noisy world. It’s clean, versatile and...

The owner of this Victorian house in York, England, wasn’t after a big kitchen, but she did want her existing space to be lighter, calmer and warmer-looking. Achieving that was another matter, however, so she asked designer Lucy Clarke-Bishop to help. “The client brought me in because she was...

Image Andrew Alperstein says future value creation will need to come at the property...

Investor relations teams look for ways to harness the power of AI tools to better communicate and engage with their investor...

Global prime residential prices rose 2.5% over the 12 months ending September 2025, marking a continuation of a two-year slowdown in luxury housing growth, according to Knight Frank. The deceleration reflects broader macroeconomic pressures, including elevated interest rates and a slowdown in the pace of rate cuts. In September 2024, 43% of 37 sampled central banks had trimmed rates, but by April 2025 that...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have curtailed the public release of their economic and housing data, prompting questions about the potential impact to the mortgage market that relies on the data, according to reporting by Inman. Fannie Mae did not release its National Housing Survey in November, marking the first missed publication in more than 15 years. Its last recorded survey in October, based on...