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Explaining how she'd slept on her sofa for the past six years to escape the mould in her bedroom, Ruthie said: I've stopped paying the rent, every night I'm coughing, the sink in the bathroom has mould, there's leaks, there's water running down the doors. Mould in the Turnpike Lane flat You can see the damp when you come into the house, we don't know where to store our shoes, we don't know what to do anymore.

The City has agreed to let Related, a developer, tear down that and more than 20 neighboring buildings in the Fulton & Elliott Chelsea Houses, and relocate residents. It would essentially privatize the housing development, rather than depending on the city to maintain and manage. The project includes rebuilding all 2,056 existing units and creating up to 3,454 new mixed-income units and new community facilities and public spaces.

I have lived all my life in Los Angeles, but I have never seen anything like the level of destruction we experienced this past January due to the fires that ripped through our neighborhoods. In real time, I saw the devastating impact of climate change. At the same time, landlords across the city were spiking rents because the wellbeing of their tenants was last on their list of considerations.

As the year winds down, most real estate agents feel the pull to jump straight into 2026 real estate goal-setting mode. New targets, fresh marketing campaigns, ambitious listing goalsit's all very energizing. Not so fast. Here's what I've learned in nearly 30 years in this business: the most successful agents pause first. They look back with intention before charging forward.

The good news: You absolutely can sell a condemned house. While the process differs from a traditional home sale, you have several viable options. Why would a house be condemned? A condemned house is a property that local government authorities have officially declared unsafe or uninhabitable. This designation means the home violates local housing codes or presents safety hazards that prevent people from legally living there.

My brother and I inherited our mother's home, and my brother and his wife moved in. We had a gentleman's agreement that at some undetermined future time when my brother moves out, we'd sell the house, the cost of any home improvements made by my brother would be divided by half, and my potential rental income would be halved, too and settled upon the home sale.

David Walsh claims the fence around his four-storey townhouse was put up to stop foxes entering his garden. But his neighbours have accused him of making the heritage area look like a POW camp and causing a public safety risk. Mr Walsh, founder of insurance company CFC, bought the property in 2023. In retrospective planning documents he argued that the inclusion of the fence was intended for fox prevention purposes, according to the Daily Mail.

The report pondered how long it would take to save 10% of the median purchase price, a common goal for first-timers, assuming the wannabe owner saved 10% of income left over after paying taxes and life's "essentials," using the median household income. Of course, the California "affordability" numbers were ugly. For starters, the Golden State has the highest down-payment goal: $83,200 vs. a median of $38,750 across the 50 states. After California came Hawaii at $74,400, and Massachusetts at $63,900.

When you're getting ready to , depersonalizing your home is one of the simplest ways to draw in more buyers. At its core, depersonalizing means removing or minimizing the items that reflect your life - things like family photos, collections, bold décor, or anything highly specific to your taste. The goal: help buyers picture life in the home, not yours. It's a tried-and-true selling strategy because it reduces distractions, appeals to a wider range of buyers, and helps people form an emotional connection with the home

According to Empire State Realty Trust, it has inked two new retail leases with Hoka and Tecovas to join its "North Sixth Street Collection" of stores in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. The real estate company noted that Hoka is set to occupy a 4,148-square-foot retail store at 91 N. 6th Street, while Tecovas will take over the 4,174-square-foot space at 89 N. 6th Street. Details of when the stores will open to the public were not disclosed. FN has reached out to Hoka and Tecovas for comment.

Around 1964, the name Boerum Hill began to appear on maps of Brooklyn's old brownstone neighborhoods. The name, announcing a new residential area in downtown Brooklyn, was to be seen not on all maps but chiefly on those that had been drawn up in Boerum Hill itself. People living in such nearby areas as Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, and Park Slope-the establishment, so to speak, of Brooklyn's brownstone neighborhoods.

Understand your market for luxury home staging The first step in balancing personal style with buyer appeal is understanding your market. Luxury buyers often value sleek, neutral designs with a few signature pieces, and they tend to gravitate toward homes that feel sophisticated, spacious, and move-in ready. Research comparable high-end listings in your area to see which finishes, color schemes, and layouts consistently sell.

When you're getting ready to list your home on , choosing the best time for an open house matters more than you might think. It can affect how much attention your home gets -and how fast it sells. So whether you are looking to sell your home in Anchorage, AK or this Redfin guide will help you choose the ideal time to host an open house to highlight your home's strengths, bring in more buyers, and help stand out from the competition.

There's no such thing as a binary choice (it's got to be option A or B) when it comes to creating monthly passive income. Investors have dozens of options to choose from, many of which involve publicly-traded securities (and many of which don't). Some investors may choose to look at private investments in rental properties, private equity, and other sources to create meaningful passive income streams for retirement.

House-buying spree is 'squeezing out' young families from the area, say residents

The mere hope of maybe becoming a homeowner someday is such a potent motivator that it affects how people work, consume and invest, but many Americans are writing off that dream, researchers said. According to a paper published earlier this month from Northwestern University's Seung Hyeong Lee and the University of Chicago's Younggeun Yoo, younger generations are not just delaying homeownership-they are increasingly giving up on it. That's as the housing affordability crisis has put ownership out of reach for millions. The median house price was 5.81 times the median household income in 2022, up from a ratio of 4.52 in 2010 and 3.57 in 1984. And that doesn't include related costs that have grown like insurance.

Most tenants told me they got nothing. In fact, they've had services removed," said Morrow. CBC Toronto has reached out to Westbury for comment on this case but has not yet heard back from the company. In its application, Westbury maintains it's added a new boiler and hot water system, among other things. Wendy Morrow, with the Federation of Metro Tenants Associations, suggests tenants take the time to go through all the documents presented at their board hearing well beforehand.

In September, home prices rose slightly from the month before, with a median listing price of $532,500. The number of listings on the market shrank 3.1% from last month, which is a bigger decrease than normal for this time of the year in Portland, and homes are also selling slower than at the same time last year. Home prices in Portland Typically, home price per square foot in Portland tend to fall in September.

The number of listings on the market shrank 3.0% from last month, which is a bigger decrease than normal for this time of the year in San Antonio, and homes are also selling slower than at the same time last year.

Digital Realty and a consortium of Equinix and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are both trying to acquire the Scandinavian company atNorth. Partners Group, the owner of atNorth, is reportedly aiming for around €4.5 billion for the pan-Nordic data center operator. This is according to Bloomberg, based on sources. atNorth operates data centers in Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Partners Group acquired the company in January 2022.

Partners Group, a Swiss private equity and real estate biz which bought atNorth in 2021, is understood to be seeking between €4 billion ($4.6 billion) and €4.5 billion ($5.2 billion), according to Bloomberg and the FT. Now the bidders keen to snatch up the business are reported to include two of the largest multinational datacenter operators, Digital Realty and Equinix. Equinix is working with investors Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Deriving its name from the Irish Laoiseach (meaning radiant), this spacious bungalow could turn out to be a bright idea for buyers seeking a home close to the K Club in Co Kildare. Lishandra Manor is a gated development of 10 detached homes in a landscaped estate on the outskirts of Straffan which, along with the famous golf resort, is also home to Steam Museum and Barberstown Castle.

A neighbour who waged a campaign of harassment and "blackmail" against the son of England cricket legend Colin Cowdrey, scuppering the sale of his 3.85m home, is now facing a 500,000 bill after losing a court battle. Film producer Jeremy Cowdrey, 65, whose father famously captained England, successfully sued his neighbour, Vanessa Gibson, over what he alleged were lies that made his sprawling 10-acre country house in Goudhurst, Kent, unsellable.

For the past decade, rate marketing has been the dominant gravitational force in mortgage acquisition. Whoever shouted the lowest 30-year fixed rate the loudest won the most attention. But attention has never been the same as intent, and intent has never been the same as a closed loan. What's happening now is more fundamental than a rate cycle or a marketing shift. It's a reordering of how borrowers discover homes, evaluate affordability, and choose which lender earns their trust first.

When Crissy Spivey bought herself a large one-bedroom, one-bath co-op in Brooklyn's Ditmas Park neighborhood in 2018, she had all the space she needed. Shortly before she closed, she met John Richie, who had just moved to New York from New Orleans. Before long, he joined her in the apartment. The following year, the couple's daughter was born and they transformed the place into a two-bedroom with a small office.

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert's ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. National home prices rose +0.1% year-over-year between October 2024 and October 2025, according to the Zillow Home Value Index reading published last week-a decelerated rate from the +2.4% year-over-year rate between October 2023 and October 2024. In the first half of 2025, the number of major metro area housing markets seeing year-over-year declines climbed. That count has since stopped ticking up.