U.S. housing vacancies held steady in the second quarter of 2026 even as "zombie" foreclosures ticked higher in several regions, signaling a slow normalization in distressed-property activity, according to a new report from ATTOM Data Solutions. Across the country's 104.9 million residential properties, roughly 1.4 million homes--about 1.3%--were vacant in Q2, unchanged from both the prior quarter and the...

Image Bodner says global investors have raised their planned U.S. allocation from 11% to 16% during the last...

The late, legendary Bob Toll once laid bare the fact that he was personally incapable of installing a curtain rod in a living room, let alone knowing the first thing about building a home from the ground up. What Bob did intuit was that the second-floor walls of a typical 1960s two-story home could be bumped out to be flush with the first-floor building enclosure, creating palpably more square footage...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a detailed deregulation roadmap aimed at state and local governments that, it argues, could lower per-unit costs and shorten cycle times for homebuilders. HUD’s new “State and Local Best Practices for Home Construction” report offers a set of recommended policy changes that target permitting fees, building codes,...

For many real estate brokers, the dream of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered efficiency has crashed against a hard reality; agents are reluctant to use tools that force them to change habits. Tyler Morton — broker-owner of REMAX Victory + Affiliates in Beavercreek, Ohio — learned this lesson the expensive way. After his first AI platform Victoria failed because agents refused to download...

Mortgage lenders are getting creative to combat the housing affordability crisis fueled by rising interest rates, rolling out novel products and blending existing options to keep borrowers in the market. Bayview Asset Management — which closed its acquisition of Guild Mortgage in November — rolled out a new program on Monday. Partnering with real estate startup Estately, the firm is combining a...

The build-to-rent (BTR) industry, which has been under siege from legislative uncertainty since March, just got a modicum of welcome news.  On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amended version of the U.S. Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act by a margin of 396 to 13 that removed the proposed seven-year selloff rule for new build-to-rent communities.  The legislation...

For years, fans of Titus Welliver associated him with one of the coolest homes on television — the sleek, glass-wrapped hillside house from Bosch perched high above Los Angeles. Turns out, his real-life home is arguably even more interesting. Hidden deep in Topanga Canyon, the actor and his wife, interior designer Samantha Edge, are listing their striking 5.8-acre compound for $7.75 million....

Miami Beach has entered its compound era. Not just bigger houses. Bigger ideas. The newest example is Sunset Estates, a newly listed $110 million waterfront compound on Sunset Islands III that takes the city’s ultra-luxury obsession with privacy, flexibility, and resort-style living to another level entirely. Represented by Ana Teresa Rodriguez of Coldwell Banker Realty, the estate combines two...

Digital real estate infrastructure company World Property Markets is making an ambitious bid to dominate global property discovery with WORLD PROPERTY SEARCH, an emerging AI-powered listings search engine and super-app set to launch by year-end. Currently under development, WORLD PROPERTY SEARCH is being positioned as the world's first global, multilingual, and industry-specific real estate listings AI...