On March 4, 2025, a windstorm cut across Texas and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes. Outside Dallas-Fort Worth, the pattern was the same as the storm swept through one of Lennar‘s new communities: the grid went down, the neighborhood went dark. But 46 homes in that same community—

The Supreme Court will not be taking up Real Estate Exchange (REX)’s appeal of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in REX’s long-running antitrust suit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Zillow. The nation’s highest court denied REX’s rehearing request in a ruling on Monday.

A Dallas-area mansion makes history as the most expensive public sale in Texas this year, according to the Dallas Business Journal. The home, located in University Park—a suburb north of downtown Dallas—was listed for $35 million on Oct. 31. After two months, the Journal reports the home at 6601 Hun

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) on Tuesday named Bob Hart as president of its ICE Mortgage Technology division. Hart will succeed Tim Bowler, who will transition to ICE’s fixed income and data services division, where he will focus on index development and financial institution infrastructure. The l

Home shoppers in 2025 gravitated toward more affordable, midsized U.S. cities, with Midwestern markets accounting for most of the country’s most popular places to buy, according to new data released by Zillow. Rockford, Illinois, ranked as the most popular housing market in the country, moving up fr

Coffee magnate Bob Stiller’s pending deal to sell his lakefront Palm Beach mansion, asking $84 million, topped a strong week of luxury contracts in Palm Beach County. Buyers signed 24 contracts between Dec. 8 and Dec. 14 for luxury properties across the county, according to Douglas Elliman’s Eklund-

The unemployment rate reached 4.6% today!  Nevertheless, the Federal Reserve perceives current conditions as stable, allowing for a policy stance slightly above neutral since labor market deterioration has not yet occurred. Since late 2022, I have consistently argued that the Fed shifted its approac

The businessman who purchased NBA star Michael Jordan's "cursed" mansion has prompted uproar from his neighbors in a tony Chicago suburb after unveiling plans to turn the property into what he described as an "immersive" tourist destination that will be "focused on personal transformation." Nebraska

Freddie Mac announced Tuesday that its board of directors has selected Kenny M. Smith as the company’s CEO. The move is effective Wednesday and Smith will also serve as a member of the board. Michael Hutchins, who assumed the interim CEO role in March 2025 following the departure of Diana Reid, will

When animals choose your property as their new home, the situation can become frightening and moreover costly for homeowners. This is precisely what happened to a Colorado Springs, CO, family when a 200-pound black bear chose their deck as its hibernation site, according to KRDO. While the bear had

Even as higher material costs, labor constraints, economic uncertainty, and spottier consumer spending trends weigh on current renovation and remodeling projects, home improvement contractors remain optimistic. The Q4 Contractor Activity Tracker, released by The Farnsworth Group and Home Improvement

The Trump Administration fired back against a lawsuit trying to stop construction on the $300 million ballroom project. In a Dec. 15 court filing, the Trump Administration says the plans for the 90,000-square-foot ballroom are a matter of "national security." It says the "sensitive and classified in

Boarding and lodging houses played an important role during American industrialization.​ Could they make a come-back? Rural people and immigrants relied on them when they sought jobs in rapidly urbanizing cities and affordable housing was scarce. Cities zoned them largely out of existence over the p

President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is engaged to his socialite girlfriend, Bettina Anderson, less than a year after it was revealed that he had split from his former fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle. Speaking at a Christmas reception held at the White House on Dec. 15, the president s

Longtime radio host Howard Stern has announced that he's signed a three-year contract renewal with SiriusXM, ending furious speculation that he was set to leave the broadcaster after 19 years on the airwaves. Stern, 71, shared the happy news on his eponymous radio show, where he revealed that he and

St. Louis is getting fresh recognition as a top metro for savvy buyers. The Realtor.com® November 2025 Housing Trends Report found that buyers nationwide are recalibrating their expectations amid higher mortgage costs and a slower-moving market. With affordability stretched thin in many larger and m

PMG, Michael Simkins’ Lion Development Group and Alex Karakhanian’s Lndmrk Development scored a $92.5 million construction loan for their short-term-rental friendly condo project in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. The partners secured financing from New York-based Maxim Capital Group, according to a

Frontier Airlines is replacing its CEO, Barry Biffle, with the carrier's president.

Mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 3.1% from the same time a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Builder Application Survey (BAS). But month to month, the November 2025 numbers fell by 7% from October 2025. The change does not include any adjustment for

The Powerball jackpot shot up to $1.25 billion Tuesday, after no winner was crowned on Monday, Dec. 15. The jackpot is Powerball's sixth-largest of all time and the second-biggest Powerball grand prize this year: a $1.787 billion jackpot was hit Sept. 6 in Missouri and Texas. If anyone is lucky enou