Real Estate

Photocredit: GettyGetty The idea of shopping around for a mortgage can be daunting. After all, there’s so much paperwork associated with applying for one mortgage, who would want to go through the process multiple times? However, the fact is that if you don’t shop around for your mortgage, you’re doing yourself a huge disservice. We’ve

For this serial entrepreneur and real estate developer, his newest project—perhaps his final—has been a 14-year labor of love. Tim Charlwood is an outdoor adventurist who’s sailed and ballooned all over the world. As a founding member of Mustique Island (a private locale in the Grenadines), he’s spent time with fellow Brits Mick Jagger, David

Jeff Fishman, founder JSF Financial, a financial planning and investment management firm in Los AngelesJSF Financial The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the only big piece of legislation passed by President Donald Trump, was enacted last December, but tax year 2018 is when a lot of the provisions go into effect. It’s been called the

Lauryn Evarts at home.Lauryn Evarts Bedrooms aren’t just spaces for sleeping. They’re so much more than that. A bedroom should feel like a retreat to restore both the body and mind. I interviewed a range of successful influencers and entrepreneurs about the most intimate rooms in their homes. They generously shared not just what these spaces looked like,

Crystal City where search traffic spiked with Amazon HQ2 announcement: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg photo credit:© 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Trulia.com, the online real estate site recently looked at the real-time impact of Amazon’s HQ2 recent November 3rd announcement selecting Crystal City, Virginia as one of its sites. Cheryl Young, Trulia’s chief economist, looked at the numbers

A partial government shutdown looks probable as President Donald Trump digs in his heels on his demand to fund a border wall. Congress has until midnight Friday to either pass spending bills for seven federal agencies, or approve a stopgap spending measure that would push off a potential shutdown. If those efforts fail, the closure

Surging demand and strong occupancy in the nation’s apartment market is “surprising” experts who say the continued strength is “unexpected.” Just a year ago, as dozens of cranes swarmed over major U.S. cities, there was concern that the rental apartment market was overheated and overbuilt. Apartment absorption, which is the rate at which new units

Designed by HOK, the $1.5 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium will host Super Bowl 53.Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images On February 3, 2019, more than 100 million people will overdose on party nachos, football pools, Maroon 5 and ridiculous TV ads. Oh, and Super Bowl LIII (53) too, the annual gridiron classic—played this time in Atlanta’s

The new Bravo limited-run TV series “Dirty John” is based on the popular true crime podcast of the same name about a real-life California woman who falls in love with a violent alleged con man. With no visible means of support or home of his own, John Meehan (played by Eric Bana) still manages to

Corcoran agent Caroline Bass pops her daughter into a baby carrier to take her along to some showings.The Corcoran Group The freedom to set your own hours and earn a living by selling ideas about homemaking can make real estate a tempting job option for moms. However, while it is possible to contribute to household

St. Barth skyline and harborGetty My annual visit to St. Barths for the holidays is one of the most exciting times of the year and especially now since the island has bounced back from the devastating Hurricane damage with numerous resorts open for action. There are almost 800 luxury villas available for rent on the island,

Even with mortgage rates at the lowest level in three months, homebuyers are pulling away from the housing market. Mortgage application volume fell 5.8 percent last week from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted report. Volume was 17 percent lower than a year ago. Purchase volume drove the decline, falling

Apple Inc.’s plan to expand its presence in Austin, Texas, with a $1 billion new campus is a good and a bad thing, depending on who you talk to. Apple’s newest Austin campus will be located less than a mile from its existing facilities in the northwest part of the Texas capital. The 133-acre site

Each new housing data point is worse than the last, and they are prompting a leading industry analyst to say the market is in a correction. Single-family housing starts fell more than 13 percent year-over-year, according to the U.S. Census. Building permits, an indicator of future construction, were down nearly 2 percent. This followed a

Kuldip Pabla says it’s a misconception that senior adults “do not like or want technology,” and that error alone has caused the development of technology for older adults to lag behind that of younger people. Pabla is the senior vice president of engineering for K4Connect, a technology company that creates smart solutions for older adults

Homebuilder sentiment dropped in December to its lowest point in more than three years while potential buyers hesitate to purchase new homes even as mortgage rates have pulled back in the past month. According to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, homebuilder sentiment declined four points in December to 56. That

What we want in our homes has not changed much over time: comfort, ease and beauty.Michael MacNamara When he put on new roof on a house built in 1926 on Los Angeles’ Mulholland Drive, contractor Justin Krzyston went all the way to France for roof tiles. Not because French roof tiles are necessarily better, but

People of color struggle more than their white neighbors to repay their car loans. In St. Joseph, Indiana, for example, 27 percent of people in predominantly nonwhite ZIP codes are delinquent on their auto debt, compared with just 3 percent in predominantly white ZIP codes. A new map by the Urban Institute traces auto delinquency

closed sign photo credit: GettyGetty Earlier this week, I sat down with Faisal Butt, Emoov’s earliest investor, to discuss the lessons that startup founders and their backers (regardless of the sector they are in) can learn from failures such as this one. The article which was the product of that conversation generated a lot of

As the competition heated up in the short-term and corporate rental business, Patrick Flynn knew he needed an edge. His Northeast Suites business, based in Boston, MA, was growing, but so was AirBnB, HomeAway and other national players. So Flynn launched a new brand over the summer – GoLocal Suites. Fully furnished rental suites where

Detail of banknotes from the Bank of Scotland, which in 2016 began issuing new banknotes on polymer starting with the £5 note. (Photocredit: Getty).Getty How many exchanges does the world need? Now with plans being unveiled to launch a Scottish stock exchange, Bourse Scot, next year in an initiative dubbed “Project Heather”, it is a question I

Major corporations such as Apple, which just announced a $1 billion investment into a new Austin campus, are buying into Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott told CNBC Friday. The iPhone maker promises to develop a 133-acre complex to hold 5,000 employees, with room for an additional 10,000 more. It will be situated within a mile of

A view out towards the Tasmanian wilderness from Captain Kelly’s Cottage in Bruny Island, lying far off of the Australian mainland.Thomas Mein There is an ancient but continually reinforced fascination with villa lifestyle in Western culture—somewhere for architects’ love for all things Roman to meet the dreams of Southwestern suburbanites. Ash-ridden Pompeiian ruins, hacienda courtyards

Mortgage applications to purchase a newly built home dropped 11 percent in November, compared to a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Given the drop, MBA economists predict that sales of newly built homes in November fell 5 percent annually. Those numbers will be reported at the end of December by the U.S.

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Skyline of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is one of the largest cities to witness ever-expanding wealth inequality.Getty Every city possesses an economic divide, but the gap is more severe in some parts of the country than others. In many cases, residents in the top and bottom income brackets reside in

New York struck a “bad deal” with Amazon to bring one of the tech giant’s East Coast headquarters to Queens, New York state Sen. Michael Gianaris told CNBC on Wednesday. Gianaris, a Democrat whose district includes Long Island City, where the Amazon facility would be located, called Jeff Bezos‘ HQ2 search process “one of the

Welded atop The Sophie at Bayou Bend in Houston, an evergreen marks completion the luxury condo project’s skeleton. The 10 ft. evergreen, attached to a pipe, had one heck of a ride, swaying a bit in the wind as a construction crane hoisted it seven stories to a rooftop post.Courtesy of The Sophie at Bayou

Businessman under the big calculator photo credit: GettyGetty At the start of December, online estate agent Emoov made headlines for all the wrong reasons when it filed for voluntary administration. Only a few months before, it was being hailed as the darling of the London proptech scene, with a three-way tie-up with Tepilo and Urban, valued

Homeowners in most places are still seeing their nest eggs get a little bigger, but the gains are shrinking quickly. The average homeowner with a mortgage saw a gain of $12,400 in home equity between the third quarter of last year and this year, according to CoreLogic. That includes price appreciation and paying down the

Could smart home technology create an avenue for advertisers to invent a new brand experience.Adobe Stock HIDE! It’s you versus the digital world. Many people are trying to secure themselves from the more and more pervasive risks of cyberattacks. The number of major organizations that have been breached in the last few months is growing;