More Than Half of Young Adults Have Moved Back Home After Leaving

More Than Half of Young Adults Have Moved Back Home After Leaving

Almost 60% of young adults have moved back home at some point, but they don’t see it as a failure to launch. They see it as financially savvy. That the path to... Read more »
Flood of AI Cash Is Forcing Bay Area Homebuyers To Boost Down Payments To Compete

Flood of AI Cash Is Forcing Bay Area Homebuyers To Boost Down Payments To Compete

The latest technological revolution has upended the San Francisco Bay Area’s housing market, where AI pioneers flush with cash are offering massive down payments to lock down increasingly scarce premium properties. To... Read more »
Home Purchase Loans Sink to 12-Year Low as High Mortgage Rates Crush Affordability

Home Purchase Loans Sink to 12-Year Low as High Mortgage Rates Crush Affordability

U.S. home purchase lending plunged to its lowest level in 12 years at the start of 2026, dragged down by elevated home prices and mortgage rates stuck above 6% that sidelined many... Read more »
Why Mortgage Rates Just Hit a 9-Month High—What It Means for Buyers and Sellers

Why Mortgage Rates Just Hit a 9-Month High—What It Means for Buyers and Sellers

As summer unofficially begins, mortgage rates have climbed to their highest level in nine months, propelled higher by soaring energy costs stemming from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Freddie Mac... Read more »
Kids, Aging Parents, and Mortgages Just Do Not Mix for This Sandwich Generation

Kids, Aging Parents, and Mortgages Just Do Not Mix for This Sandwich Generation

Homebuying is already a difficult enough undertaking for many Americans thanks to high home prices, elevated mortgage rates, and constrained inventory. So if you’re one of the millions of people currently caught... Read more »
Luxury Buyers From Colombia Are Snapping Up South Florida Homes in Search of a Real Estate Safety Net

Luxury Buyers From Colombia Are Snapping Up South Florida Homes in Search of a Real Estate Safety Net

South Florida has long been a favorite destination for wealthy Colombian real estate investors, but worsening political and economic volatility at home has sharpened their focus on the Sunshine State. Although Miami... Read more »
Baby Boomers Are Getting Roommates To Cut Costs

Baby Boomers Are Getting Roommates To Cut Costs

Over the past few years, 72-year-old cinematographer David West saw his whole world fell apart. “My 22-year marriage ended, after raising four kids,” he tells Realtor.com®. “The strikes in Hollywood knocked out... Read more »
Geena Davis Offers Rare Glimpse Inside Upbringing—and Wild Childhood Antics

Geena Davis Offers Rare Glimpse Inside Upbringing—and Wild Childhood Antics

Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis has opened up about the hilarious childhood pastime that left the residents of her quiet Massachusetts hometown so alarmed that they would regularly phone her mother to report... Read more »
Georgia Retreat Where You Can Fish From the Front Porch Is Listed for 9K

Georgia Retreat Where You Can Fish From the Front Porch Is Listed for $709K

In the North Georgia mountains, where trout streams wind through the forest, a newly relisted creekside retreat is offering a fisherman’s dream: the chance to quite literally make the catch of the... Read more »
Inside Westfield, NJ’s Most Infamous Real Estate Deal

Inside Westfield, NJ’s Most Infamous Real Estate Deal

David Barbosa is one of the most prestigious brokers in the idyllic suburb of Westfield, NJ, with regular listings valued in the multimillions. But in 2019, he was handed the strangest listing... Read more »