A historic resort on Cape Cod will get a new lease on life as a retreat for writers, after a philanthropist purchased the aging property for $3.6 million, Realtor.com® can exclusively reveal. Philanthropist Grace Nordhoff, a retired restaurateur who is heiress to a Seattle business conglomerate fort

Mortgage lenders are rushing to adopt AI, but many are repeating a familiar mistake: using new technology to accelerate old processes. Faster paper-pushing isn’t transformation. AI presents an opportunity to go further—but only if lenders approach it correctly.  In mortgage lending, intelligent AI m

The 2026 housing market is entering a new phase, shaped less by structural constraints and more by external forces influencing buyer confidence. At this year’s annual Forum for Housing Executives, hosted by Builder Advisor Group and Avila Real Estate Capital, more than 80 C-level leaders gathered to

Tokyo's Haneda Airport is beginning a trial of humanoid robots in airport ground services amid chronic labor challenges and a rapidly ageing workforce.

Whitney Leavitt has announced her exit from "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" after four seasons—having left her life in Utah behind to launch a new career on Broadway in New York City. The 32-year-old revealed during her final performance of "Chicago" at the Ambassador Theatre that she will not re

"Keeping Up With the Kardashians" matriarch Kris Jenner appears to have had a very brief change of heart about selling the family's iconic Los Angeles mansion—delisting the property for a matter of hours, before putting it back on the market for the same asking price of $13.5 million. Jenner, 70, or

🏆 Residential: Fort Lauderdale claimed the top home sale recorded in South Florida. A 10,300-square-foot, oceanfront mansion at 3052 North Atlantic Boulevard traded for $26 million. An LLC managed by WeatherTech founder David MacNeil sold the property to an LLC tied to Pablo Umansky, president of U

The owners of a real estate investment company in Oregon have been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to their roles in a $17 million fraud scheme.  At a hearing last week at the federal courthouse in Portland, Robert Christensen was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison, and his b

UWM Holdings Corp. is challenging Two Harbors Investment Corp.’s board after it rejected a $12 per share acquisition proposal in favor of an $11.30 per share deal with CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, issuing a lengthy response that questioned the board’s analysis and process. In a statement on Monday, UW

Adam Neumann’s Flow bought a 50 percent stake in Society Wynwood, with plans to renovate and rebrand the property.  Flow is now a co-owner with Toronto-based private equity firm Greybrook of the property at 176 Northwest 25th Street and 2431 Northwest Second Avenue in Miami, according to a Flow news

Spirit Airlines shut down before dawn on Saturday ending its run as the most famous U.S. discount airline.

Spirit Airlines shut down before dawn on Saturday ending its run as the most famous U.S. discount airline.

The British royal family is set to get another member when Princess Eugenie welcomes her third child with husband Jack Brooksbank this summer. Eugenie, 36, and Jack, 40 shared their joyous news in an official statement issued by a Buckingham Palace spokesperson on May 4. It noted the couple's excite

The real estate investment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paid $240 million to acquire an apartment complex in Boca Raton, marking one of the priciest multifamily deals in South Florida this year.  Records show an affiliate of the LDS Church’s Property Reserve bought the Uptown B

“Where’s the upside here?” That’s the question Steve Murray, the co-founder of RealTrends Consulting, keeps coming back to as the industry digests The Real Brokerage’s acquisition of REMAX — and it’s the same question investors appeared to answer swiftly. On the day of the announcement, Real’s stock

The story of American homebuilding is mostly one of bootstrapped businesses. They mostly get forged in hard circumstances, with a single, almost instantaneous reckoning that there are no shortcuts to success … or even to being around in five years, fighting to achieve it. It requires leaders willing

An investment banker who has worked with tech giants including Google, YouTube, and Uber is so eager to get his hands on some pre-IPO Anthropic stock that he is offering up his Bay Area compound in exchange for the coveted shares. Storm Duncan, founder of the tech investment bank Ignatious, is willi

In an all-important way, Green Brick Partners operates as an anomaly. The Texas-based homebuilder continues to deliver the highest gross profit margin among public homebuilding peers, and plans to use this margin cushion to its advantage over the quarters ahead. While public homebuilding peers strug

The waterfront property that once belonged to the late mobster Al Capone will soon have a new owner.  The pending deal for the property, asking $23.5 million, is one of 18 luxury home contracts signed in Miami-Dade County between April 27 and May 3, according to the weekly report by Douglas Elliman’

Actress Cameron Diazhas welcomed her third child with husband Benji Madden, nearly two years after she reemerged on the Hollywood scene following an 11-year hiatus from acting—a period that she described as the "best years" of her life. Diaz, 53, and Madden, 47, who wed in 2015, announced the arriva