Buyers turn to the resale market as builders abandon price cuts

Buyers turn to the resale market as builders abandon price cuts

Rising existing-home inventory is thwarting homebuilders, who are now slowing permits and starts — and backing off from hefty incentives. Homebuyers in the existing-home market might have a slight edge over those... Read more »
Private Island Once Owned by Shakira and Roger Waters Lists for  Million After Plan To Turn It Into Artists’ Retreat Fell Apart

Private Island Once Owned by Shakira and Roger Waters Lists for $30 Million After Plan To Turn It Into Artists’ Retreat Fell Apart

A private island in the Bahamas that was once earmarked as the site of an A-list artists’ retreat is set to return to the market for the first time in 20 years—after... Read more »
New Jersey City Seeks To Use Eminent Domain To Turn 1940s Sears Building Into Luxury Apartments

New Jersey City Seeks To Use Eminent Domain To Turn 1940s Sears Building Into Luxury Apartments

A New Jersey city wants to turn a historic 1940s art deco building that was formerly a Sears Roebuck and Co. store into a mixed-use project with up to 325 apartments, retail space,... Read more »
Raising Cane’s backtracks on plan to turn Norms into a chicken joint

Raising Cane’s backtracks on plan to turn Norms into a chicken joint

The historic Norms on La Cienega Boulevard will not be changed into a fast-food chicken joint, according to the building’s owner. Raising Cane’s, the restaurant chain that owns the iconic Googie-style diner,... Read more »
Workers turn to van life amid Eastern Sierra housing crunch

Workers turn to van life amid Eastern Sierra housing crunch

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif.  —  Emily Markstein, a sinewy rock climber and skier who has spent seven years living and working in the Sierra resort town of Mammoth Lakes, opens a large sliding... Read more »
Fed cuts could turn the tide for commercial real estate. Where to find opportunity

Fed cuts could turn the tide for commercial real estate. Where to find opportunity

Federal Reserve interest rate cuts may help turn the tide for commercial real estate. Yet investors should tread carefully if they’re wading into the market. Central bank policymakers’ half-point reduction last month... Read more »
Recruiters turn to AI in their quest to lure top agents

Recruiters turn to AI in their quest to lure top agents

Tech enters the picture Alongside these possibilities, the integration of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool can also be a solution. When AI started to gain momentum in the real estate industry, most... Read more »
Crescent Heights to Turn LA Offices into Commercial Condos

Crescent Heights to Turn LA Offices into Commercial Condos

Crescent Heights aims to convert a medical office building into commercial condominiums, according to an application filed with the Los Angeles City Planning Department on Jan. 9. The Miami-based developer has plans... Read more »
How to host real estate events to turn friends into customers

How to host real estate events to turn friends into customers

When Jen Dillard, broker and team leader of Jen Dillard Real Estate Team, and her family first moved to Hood River, Oregon, she didn’t know anyone. She hadn’t started her real estate... Read more »