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.
Senada Adžem, the executive director of luxury sales at Douglas Elliman, said before she started selling homes in the development, prices averaged around $6 million. Adžem broke the mold when she put a house up for sale in the neighborhood for $20 million in 2018. It took her two years to sell it for the first time, but it then sold several times after that. Just last month the same property, now remodeled, sold to Wahlberg for $37 million.
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.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area is the world's largest conurbation, with its population anticipated to reach 100 million by 2030. Situated at the southern end of Guangzhou's Nansha District on the western bank of the historic Pearl River, the Greater Bay Area Sports Center will serve as an anchor to the new civic, business, and residential district at the heart of the Greater Bay Area.
Robert AM Stern, an architect who fashioned the New York City skyline with buildings that sought to invoke pre-war splendor but with modern luxury fit for billionaires and movie stars, has died at the age of 86. Dubbed The King of Central Park West by Vanity Fair, Stern was credited with designing 15 Central Park West that, in 2008, was credited as being the highest-priced new apartment building in the history of New York.
From 2003, when he was 19 years old, until 2012, Prince Harry's official residence was at Clarence House in London with his father, Charles III. He had a bedroom and a study in the 19th-century Regency-style estate, which is still the London residence of King Charles. Designed by architect John Nash, the historic house was built between 1825 and 1827 for the Duke of Clarence, who would become King William IV.
As construction activity revs up in the Pacific Palisades, so too do signed contracts and new listings. The neighborhood held the No. 1 spot among Los Angeles County signed contracts and listings, according to the Eklund Weekly Luxury Report Los Angeles. The priciest home to be added to the county's for-sale inventory, according to the Eklund report, was 766 Paseo Miramar. That represented a relist as it bounced back into the market with a $30 million price tag, or $1,630 per square foot.
It seems like an oversimplification, but many real estate agents don't realize they're using AI, or even interacting with AI that's in large part because agentic AI is becoming more commonplace. AI has already had a meaningful impact on the day-to-day lives of real estate agents, even if they don't realize it whether it's the use of major graphic-design platforms like Canva, social media apps, or embedded AI tools within search engines.
They were the talk of the town for years - those massive, often multi-level, underground extensions dug deep beneath London's most exclusive postcodes, hence the nickname "iceberg" basements. But then the horror stories began, with tales of neighbouring houses collapsing and outrage over the disruption caused by the creation of subterranean swimming pools and cinemas. So, have these mega-basements now fallen out of fashion, or is there still a whir of construction happening beneath our feet?
The Family Zoning Plan applies to nearly 96,000 parcels primarily along transit corridors in the city's western and northern neighborhoods. It does not upzone universally across the city, and avoids parts of the city's eastern and southern neighborhoods that have been rezoned in the past. The plan allows for increases of two to four additional stories in specific areas, primarily near transit lines or other commercial corridors.
Average home prices in these metros fell from $1.04 million to $1.01 million, marking a sharper correction than in the overall national housing market, which remained essentially flat. Listings are also staying on the market longer. Average days on market rose to 73.2 days, up more than 20% compared with last year. Nearly 40% of homes underwent price reductions, signaling an increasingly selective buyer pool.
Realty Income remains a staple in dividend investors' portfolios. The commercial REIT's dividend - which pays out monthly and has for 665 consecutive months - is a large reason investors are confident in the stock moving forward. Another reason: its expanding footprint in the European market that has seen commercial properties with long-term net lease agreements added to its +13,000-property portfolio in the U.K., Spain and other countries.
However, with just one click, this Expandable Container Tiny House could be yours for just under $45,000 at Amazon. Whether you want a luxurious separate working space in your backyard, an affordable second home to vacation in, or need a safe and inexpensive place to start building your family, an Amazon tiny house could be the right fit for you. This 40-foot by 20-foot model includes two bedrooms, an accommodating living space, a fully equipped open kitchen, a terrace, and one separate wet-and-dry bathroom.
Maybe we should stop trying to sell the house and instead focus on the positive impact it will have on our buyers' lives. This is the approach Mars Inc. used to sell its Snickers bar. The ad campaign You're not you when you're hungry debuted as a Super Bowl ad in 2010 and featured Betty White. My personal favorite is the Marcia Brady version from 2015.
"Any information you provide to the city - including your address, email and phone number - will become a matter of public record," an Oct. 20 letter from the park's attorney Paul Beard II warned of a questionnaire sent out by city staff. "If you decide to respond," it continued, "the park may need to depose you" as part of litigation between the two, and "it may be advisable for you to hire counsel."
The nation's top-ranked mega team, the Jason Mitchell Group (JMG) has surpassed 1,300 agents, according to an announcement last Wednesday. This represents a 36% increase in agent count over the past year. The team attributed this growth to the firm's business-to-business referral opportunities, which the company said has eliminated significant overhead and lead generation costs for its agents. Looking ahead, JMG said it is continuing to project these levels of growth for the next year and into the future.
Buying a home in the UK while living abroad can feel like a challenge, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming. Expat mortgages are designed specifically for people living overseas who want to buy property back home. With the right planning and expert guidance, the process can be far more straightforward than you might expect. Want to find out more? Keep on reading.
I moved from Newport News, Virginia, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2022 because of the Tulsa Remote program. It was around Christmastime of 2021, and I was looking for a new opportunity. I had just moved to Newport News from Virginia Beach just for that year. I really needed a change of pace, and I got introduced to MakeYourMove.com. I saw that a bunch of different cities had incentives for remote workers at the time.
Active listings in the Lubbock area climbed to 1,964 homes, representing a 32.8% increase from 1,479 properties a year ago. The surge in available homes coincided with a dramatic pullback in buyer activity, as weekly absorption plummeted 65.6% year-over-year from 192 to just 66 homes. New listings continue entering the market at a steady clip, with 99 homes added during the week ending Nov. 22.
The Bentley Residences, currently under construction at 18401 Collins Ave., will stand a head-turning 749 feet high, taller than all the other towers lining Sunny Isles Beach. The Bentley-branded skyscraper broke ground in early 2024 and is slated for completion in 2028. Dezer Development describes the Bentley project as its "current crown jewel." Designed in conjunction with Bentley Motors, the 62-story building features a sparkling diamond-quilted glass façade reminiscent of the diamond pattern seen in the interior of a Bentley.
Boasting that "one of their company's signature products: software" uses "a mysterious algorithm to help landlords push the highest possible rents on tenants," Parsons wooed landlords. In a since-deleted video, he noted that apartment rents had recently increased by 14.5 percent, bragging that "never before have we seen these numbers" and prodding another executive to agree that RealPage was "driving it, quite honestly." Business Insider dubbed it landlords' "secret weapon."
As local governments face mounting pressure to streamline the review process for residential projects, a wave of AI-driven reforms is revealing how modern tools can shave days or weeks off approvals, potentially speeding up housing development. For 15-plus years, pressure has been growing on a shrinking, aging municipal development workforce to carry a heavier, more complex regulatory load. The result has been a de facto national underinvestment in permitting/inspection capacity, measured in tens of billions of dollars in missing labor and delayed construction value.
Rumours of a 'Mansion Tax' on homes worth more than £1.5 million are already creating ripples across the UK property market. Even before any formal announcement, experts say the prospect of new taxation is influencing how buyers and sellers approach high‑value properties, particularly in London and the South East. For homeowners near the proposed threshold, understanding the potential consequences is essential, as early signals suggest that house prices in these high-value areas could face downward pressure.
The brokerage announced five new agents to the Beverly Hills office, bringing with them sales of almost $95 million in the past 12 months. The brokerage said two additional agents also moved their licenses to Coldwell Banker but held off on naming their publicly. When counting all seven agents, the total production over the past 12 months for the incoming wave of recruits topped $150 million.
Coming to you from Nathan Cool Photo, this timely video walks through how AI has actually strengthened the need for honest, realistic listing media instead of replacing it. Cool digs into the rise of AI slop, the growing public distrust of synthetic imagery, and how buyers now bail the moment something in a listing feels fake. You get a clear picture of why truthful advertising rules are tightening and why any hint of AI trickery can cost an agent credibility,
Monthly payments for new and existing homes are now nearly equal, amid a trend of stagnating prices and increased use of mortgage buydowns among builders. That was one of the main findings from Realtor.com's Q3 New Construction Report. According to the report, buyers purchasing a new home last quarter had an average mortgage payment only about $30 more per month than those buying an existing home with less money down.
Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, and Fremont commercial property leases totaled 20.4 million square feet during the July-through-September third quarter, according to a report from the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies that was released in partnership with JLL, a commercial real estate firm. The institute is the research arm of Joint Venture Silicon Valley.
Development of the massive One Beverly Hills residential and hotel complex reached a milestone over the weekend as construction started going vertical. The work to erect the two tallest towers in Beverly Hills started Friday with an overnight continuous pour of 3,800 cubic yards of concrete, the equivalent of 41,000 wheelbarrows-full. It was the first of multiple foundation pours that will take place over the next 12 months, developer Cain said.
