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With all the housing drama lately going on, one truth has stayed constant for years: new home sales are holding up due to rate buy-downs, but housing permits are still at recession levels! What gives here? First and foremost, new home sales have outperformed the existing home sales market for many years now, and they are still at 2019 levels, which would mean 1 to 1.3 million more existing home sales if we...

Luxury homes are time capsules. You can often tell exactly when a house was built just by walking through the front door. The materials change. The layouts shift. Ceiling heights rise and fall. Entire features appear — and then disappear — as lifestyles evolve. What wealthy buyers wanted in the 1950s looks nothing like what they demanded in the 1990s. And today’s trophy homes would have been...

Home upgrades are supposed to make life better, or at the very least make a house feel current. But trends move fast. What looked cutting-edge five or ten years ago can quietly turn into the thing that dates a home the most. And unlike swapping out a couch or repainting a bedroom, many of these upgrades are expensive, permanent, and frustrating to undo. Some seemed smart at the time. Others were...

These affordable, easy DIYs will help you upgrade your space in a flash and are perfect for renters and...

Freezing temperatures can cause brown, crispy growth on plants that are susceptible to frost damage. Frost damage can occur when temperatures dip to or below the freezing point, 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius). And both cold-hardy plants and tenderer plants that do best in warmer...

Image CEO Shawn Tibbetts highlights long-term focus on enhanced shareholder...

Pending home sales in the U.S. showed little movement in January 2026, highlighting the cautious stance of buyers despite improving affordability conditions. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Pending Home Sales Report, contracts for existing homes declined 0.8% from December and were down 0.4% compared with a year earlier. Regionally, trends diverged: month-over-month sales rose in...

Women who are 50 and older are feeling the pinch of rising costs and economic uncertainty, even as they enjoy time with their family and hobbies, according to a new AARP survey. The research, part of AARP’s “She’s the Difference” series, highlights financial concerns that weigh heavily on older women — particularly when it comes to health care, emergencies and living comfortably in...

Illinois state lawmakers took up housing affordability last year. The results underwhelmed. Now, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is pushing to put housing at the center of Illinois’ broader affordability agenda.​ “The problem is clear – rent is too high and home ownership is too far out of reach,” Pritzker said in his State of the State address on Wednesday. “We are not building enough homes fast...

Huntington Bank — which is poised to become a $280 billion institution after its acquisitions of Cadence Bank and Veritex Bank — is aggressively expanding its mortgage footprint across Texas and the Southeast while emphasizing a “partnership” culture over a traditional acquisition model. That’s according to Carolyn Gorman, the bank’s senior vice president and mortgage director, who sat down...