The housing market is facing unprecedented uncertainty and volatility headed into the spring buying season. Recent reports and data signal that the impacts are setting in. Homebuilders D.R. Horton and KB Homes held earnings calls this week, and the results aren’t great. In the first quarter of 2025, KB Homes took a $334 million loss in cash resulting from operations. Net sales orders and home sales...

Submitting a lower offer can be tempting, but is it poor etiquette? A real estate expert offers insight into when it's...

The owners of this Minnesota home — professional musicians and California transplants — were drawn to its midcentury modern architecture. According to local lore, the house was designed by a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright’s in 1954. It’s a fabulous home filled with iconic midcentury details....

Beauty, innovation, functionality, technology, and sustainability. These were the themes at the heart of the 63rd Salone del Mobile, or Milan Furniture Fair, held April 8-13. This year’s trade show welcomed 2,100 exhibitors, including many newcomers and an ever-growing international...

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Image Craig Stern of Forvis Mazars breaks down recent IRS guidance on zero-income REITs, EV charging stations, and airport terminal...

Homes Take Longer to Sell as Price Growth Decelerates New data from Redfin reveals that the typical U.S. home that went under contract in March 2025 spent 47 days on the market -- the longest median time for any March since 2019. By contrast, homes were selling in less than half that time during the height of the pandemic's homebuying surge. March 2025 marked five years since COVID-19 was declared a...

The Alexanders have one less legal problem to worry about. A San Francisco judge approved of a settlement between white-label brokerage Side and the defunct brokerage Official Partners on Side’s breach of contract lawsuit in which it accused Tal and Oren Alexander of defaulting on a loan.  Side filed the complaint in October claiming that the brothers committed multiple events of default on a $4.2...

An international law firm with more than 1,600 attorneys active across 32 U.S. cities and in London recently released a podcast episode entirely about the legal complexity — and overlooked details in litigation — of reverse mortgages. Troutman Pepper Locke LLP is estimated to be one of the 50 largest law firms in the U.S., and releases several podcasts, including one called “The Consumer Finance...

The entire staff of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) has reportedly been placed on leave at the behest of DOGE, the government cost-cutting arm inside the White House led by billionaire Elon Musk. This is according to reports published by Bloomberg and NPR. The move reportedly occurred on April 15, with all 13 USICH staff members being notified by its acting director that they will...