Home sales in the Orlando area rebounded in February as transaction activity picked up and inventory continued to grow, while homes took longer to sell and new listings declined. Closed sales rose 15.5% month over month, increasing to 1,888 transactions in February from 1,634 in January. Compared with a year earlier, total sales were up 2.8% from 1,837 transactions in February 2025. Pending sales also...

CEO Mark Decker says REIT expanding portfolio beyond outpatient medical...

Small wins on impact fees occasionally occur in costly U.S. housing markets. Teton County, Wyoming, officials agreed last week to refund a $24,325 “affordable workforce housing” fee that a homeowner had to pay to obtain a permit to build a single-family home. The payment settles a lawsuit the homeowner filed last year in a Wyoming federal court. Their lawyers at the public-interest law firm...

Homebuilding business executives maintain a guarded outlook on the homebuilding market, amid tepid demand, shrinking profit margins and weak consumer sentiment. The ongoing conflict with Iran could further complicate the outlook for builders.  The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI)’s builder confidence gauge remained subpar in March with a reading of...

The remaining defendants in the Roberts sexual assault lawsuit have all independently filed motions seeking dismissal of the case. Last week, Michael Bjorkman and David Golden, two former top recruiting agents at eXp Realty, as well as eXp World Holdings and its CEO, Glenn Sanford, all filed motions for summary judgement in the sexual assault lawsuit filed against them by plaintiff Anya...

Financing affordable housing development – typically for lower-income households – is one of the most challenging matters in real estate. Making the economics work on a deal requires layered “hard and soft” funding sources as developers navigate rising costs, policy instability, and structural gaps in the subsidy system. The process is so complicated that professionals build careers on...

A federal judge has ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) must continue getting its funding from the Federal Reserve, dealing a setback to Trump administration efforts to effectively shut down the agency. The ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose blocks acting CFPB Director Russell Vought from using a new legal interpretation that would have cut off the...

Some houses feel different the moment you walk in. It’s not just size or luxury finishes. The space seems to run smoothly. Nothing feels cluttered or improvised. Daily life appears to happen quietly in the background without disrupting the main living areas. That’s often because homes designed for large estates — or houses that once operated with full household staff — are built around a...

Tucked inside the private aviation enclave of Aero Plantation, a newly renovated estate is offering a lifestyle rarely found in residential real estate: the ability to taxi directly from home to a runway. The five-bedroom property is set within the 475-acre fly-in community just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, where residents share access to a private airstrip designed for pilots who want their...

Homes don’t usually change overnight. Architectural styles evolve slowly. Furniture trends come and go. But most houses still follow patterns that have been around for decades. Then smartphones entered everyday life. At first they seemed like just another gadget. But over time they quietly replaced dozens of things people used to rely on inside their homes, including alarm clocks, radios,...