Two people can look at the same parcel of land and come away with wildly different ideas and “facts” that determine how to value it. While there are more than three categories of landowner, most can be characterized in broad terms as developers, speculators or small parcel farmers/passive heirs.  Each land-seller category has its own valuation process and formulas. The value...

Real estate brokerage firm The Keyes Company and Illustrated Properties is teaming up with Delta Media Group to launch a unified, AI-ready digital platform for its agents and their clients in South Florida.  Developed in partnership with Delta Media Group and built on DeltaNET7, Delta’s enterprise real estate technology, the platform brings consumer websites, agent marketing, training and backend...

The outlook for new home construction and purchases appears brighter going into 2026. After contracting last year, housing stats are forecast to rise 3% this year.  A few favorable factors are lining up to boost buyer demand. Affordability is improving: wage growth is outpacing inflation, and home prices are moderating. Mortgage rates have trended down by half a point over the last several months, and...

Inflation didn’t just make things “more expensive.” It broke household planning—because the largest line item in most budgets, housing, is still shopped with the wrong unit of measure. When families budget by monthly outflow but search by list price, the market becomes inefficient, stress rises, and mobility collapses. The fix is straightforward: make monthly payment the primary search...

Union Home Mortgage (UHM) indicated a strong appetite for mergers and acquisitions by hiring Renee Hildebrand from Guild Mortgage to seek new opportunities, the company announced Tuesday. ​​The move comes a few years after the Strongsville, Ohio–based UHM, led by CEO Bill Cosgrove, acquired Amerifirst Home Mortgage. It also follows two additional acquisitions in 2025 of Houston-based Nations...

Homes have always reflected how people live, but the speed of change over the past few decades has been unusually fast. Many features now considered essential weren’t just uncommon 30 years ago. In many cases, they didn’t exist at all in residential construction. The shift comes down to technology, daily habits, and comfort expectations. People work from home more. They own more devices....

A rare double-exposure waterfront estate in Coral Gables has hit the market for $22.5 million, offering something almost unheard of even in South Florida’s luxury tier: 250 feet of open Biscayne Bay frontage with unobstructed sunrise and sunset views. Known as “My Paradise,” the five-bedroom residence at 720 Lugo Avenue sits on a 32,025-square-foot lot at the very end of a gated peninsula inside...

Behind long driveways and gates that rarely open to the public, a different category of house exists. These aren’t just bigger homes, they’re designed to replace the outside world entirely and cover everything from exercise and entertainment to parking, security, and recreation, all at the disposal of the homeowner without ever leaving the property. At this level, the goal isn’t adding a nice...

A newly built waterfront compound on one of Miami Beach’s most tightly held islands is preparing to hit the public market with an $85 million price tag — but it’s already quietly circulating among a select group of West Coast tech buyers. Known as Villa Tramonto and located at 1649 West 22nd Street, the bayfront estate sits on Sunset Island 4, one of four gated islands that together form one of...

Scroll long enough on Instagram and a pattern starts to emerge. Kitchens without so much as a toaster. Living rooms that look like no one has ever sat down. Bedrooms with rumpled linen (but in a way that feels suspiciously rehearsed). These homes photograph beautifully. Living in them is another story. Over the past decade, social media has quietly reshaped home design. Clean lines got cleaner....