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2026 Mortgage Rate Predictions: Will Rates Fall?
For mortgage shoppers and refinance-seeking homeowners alike, the lending climate in 2025 has proved challenging, with typical interest rates hovering between 6.25% and 7% – discouraging many from pulling the trigger on purchase and refi loa...
What Will Prada’s Fifth Avenue Skyscraper Be?
Photo: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg/Getty Images In late 2023, Prada spent $835 million to buy two Fift...
New York Top Real Estate Deals: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025
🏆 Residential: The top home sale recorded in New York City on Thursday, Oct. 16, was in Boerum Hill. Software engineers Jessica Dou and Stanley Yang purchased a newly built duplex townhouse within Avdoo & Partners’ Bergen Brooklyn at 3...
Homeownership Costs, Drop in Home Value Hit Black Households Hardest
Minority households are more likely to be cost-burdened, spending more than 30% of their income on mortgage, property taxes, and insurance. ...
How to See How Much a House Sold For
Understanding the sale price of a home is extremely valuable, whether you’re a prospective buyer, a seller, or simply curious about the real estate market in your neighborhood. Knowing what homes have recently sold for can help you make...
7 ways title companies can combat seller impersonation fraud
Let’s talk seller impersonation fraud. While this scam has been nationwide for a few years now, it is likely to become more prevalent as we head into 2026. So, how does it work, and what should everyone in real estate know about it? ...
$2-billion mega-development in Skid Row clears major hurdle with L.A. officials
A proposed mega-development in downtown Los Angeles, which would replace a cold storage facility with a $2-billion residential and commercial complex, cleared a major hurdle last week when the city Planning Commission backed it.Commissioners u...
Boomers retire and California reinvents their housing, again
Older Californians are growing in number, at 16.5% of the state’s population in 2024. Further, the number of Californians 65 years of age and older increased 3.2% in 2024 alone. Roughly three out of four Baby Boomers in the west, aged 65 an...
