Residential properties and housing market
Many real estate downturns are followed by promises of consumer-friendly process reform and increased attention on affordability. As with the subprime mortgage crisis, many believed the ongoing buye...
Aug 25, 2026 · 5 min readStaging can play a critical role in residential real estate. It helps to bring a model unit to life, and it provides potential renters and buyers with a glimpse of what their future home could look li...
Aug 25, 2026 · 5 min readBy Tom DeRose, co-founder and CEO at PandaGuarantee ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Contested evictions in New York City are the most expens...
Aug 25, 2026 · 5 min readThe VA reopened its main foreclosure-prevention tool on June 15, 2026, after a gap of roughly 13 months in which more than 10,000 veterans lost homes to foreclosure sales. If you are behind on a VA-gu...
Aug 24, 2026 · 5 min readBusiness terms, like talented team members, may be underpaid overachievers. One of homebuilding’s buzzing pop-chart terms these days qualifies. Scale. It sounds abstract, rhetorical, almost like a B.S...
Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min readHousing has an AI problem, and the Federal Reserve has said so. As the midterms approach, a wave of anti-data-center sentiment and backlash against AI in general has been so sweeping that governors in...
Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min readWith a population of less than 6,000, little Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., is often overlooked – but not by Regency Development Group. Since 2020, the developer has been building residential projects in t...
Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min readCompass International Holdings is adding yet another antitrust claim to its growing legal and regulatory docket. On Wednesday, plaintiffs Peter Castaneda and Haley Gelfand, both New York City renters...
Aug 21, 2026 · 5 min readKey Takeaways You can qualify for a mortgage using disability income. Your disability benefits count as income if you can show they’ll continue for at least 3 years. There are special home loans and g...
Aug 20, 2026 · 5 min readAmid a punishing grind of lower-than-typical Summer orders and the stubbornly high incentives it takes to catalyze them, homebuilder confidence notched a mini uptick in August, but at a level still co...
Aug 17, 2026 · 5 min readThe housing story most people are telling right now is a rate story. Rates went up, affordability compressed, volume fell, and everyone is waiting on the Fed to loosen the knot. That story is true for...
Aug 17, 2026 · 5 min readTrent Johnson and Brian Landrum are senior managing directors and co-heads of the seniors housing team at Harbert Management Corporation, an $8 billion alternatives asset management firm founded in 19...
Aug 17, 2026 · 5 min readBack in 2010, Jimmy McMillan ran for governor of New York on a pretty straightforward platform: The rent was too damn high. McMillan said it again and again, and named his political party The Rent is ...
Aug 16, 2026 · 5 min readDream Finders Homes’ agreement to acquire Beazer Homes for $33.50 per share brings an end to homebuilding’s most dramatic takeover contest of 2026. What the deal says about what comes next may be even...
Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min readAs homebuilders continue to grapple with tightening margins, limited demand and chronic labor shortages, could offsite components emerge as a way to build more efficiently and scale with fewer workers...
Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Older Americans continue to account for the lion’s share of home buyers and sellers across the country. Data published earlier this year by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) found that during...
Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min readKKR has appointed Sam Caven and Marshall Nevins co-heads of acquisitions for the Americas, Commercial Observer can first report. Nevins joins KKR from Blackstone, where he was a managing director, le...
Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min readThree-quarters of a trillion dollars can buy you pretty much anything you want. If you took the gross national product of Chile, and added the GNP of Colombia, you’d still have more than $100 billion ...
Aug 09, 2026 · 5 min read
Mortgage spreads at 2.01% are keeping 2026 mortgage rates near 6.74%, supporting pending sales and limiting year-over-year declines.
Aug 09, 2026 · 5 min readA House panel reviews private listing networks, while Compass cites 4.6% gains and other studies show off MLS homes sell for less.
Aug 07, 2026 · 5 min read