Real Estate

Professional investors will be good for everyday homebuyers. Getty Investors are buying single family homes at record percentages according to a an analysis by CoreLogic®, a property data and analytics company. These all-cash buyers may be crowding out traditional homebuyers, who usually make offers subject to financing and sometimes subject to sale of their current

The Brillart House is an elevated glass pavilion set between two external glass verandas. Claudia Uribe In sunny Miami, a revered architectural curiosity comes to market for the first time ever. The Brillhart House, an award-winning minimalist abode embedded into a verdant landscape, is listed for $2 million by Gary Feinberg of Compass Florida. Miami

Sidewalk Labs’ grand plan for its “smart neighborhood” on Toronto’s waterfront includes residential, commercial, and retail space. Courtesy of Sidewalk Labs After a year and a half of public hearings and criticism, Google sibling company Sidewalk Labs just unveiled its master plan to redevelop a stretch of Toronto’s waterfront with “smart” features like snow-melting roadways,

Climate change has created a huge demand for sustainable and resilient design and construction. Climate-resilient design focuses on the design of buildings, landscapes, communities and regions to respond to natural disasters and the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels, increasing heat waves and regional droughts. For real estate professionals, climate-resilient strategies ensure

Scott Hocking “Bone Black” abandoned boats “bone black” paint pigment Natasha Gural Scott Hocking throws wide the doors to a leviathan abandoned building, once used to assemble cranes, exposing his Bone Black art installation to a group of fellow artists and journalists in Detroit for a preview of Cranbrook Art Museum’s Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, and

Concierges are handling everything from package and grocery delivery to making theater reservations. Getty Apartment and condo dwellers have come to expect services that make their lives easier. But in the luxury market, it’s a whole other game. Millennials looking for a healthy work-life balance are turning the multifamily market on its head. To maintain

The two-story penthouse offers breath-taking views of Chicago’s skyline and Lake Michigan. Onni Group Chicago’s most expensive residential rental property is set to make its real estate market debut June 28 when LEVEL Furnished Living, a division of Onni Group, will list the two-story penthouse for an envy-inducing $45,000 a month. The sprawling three-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath

Living area in 3 Khakum Wood Road in Greenwich, Connecticut. Robin Kencel//Compass Real Estate Bigger is not always better when it comes to home-sizes nowadays. Unlike in the 1990s when square footage was a venerable measure of success, homeowners today are more aware of their carbon footprints, household budgets and other factors that play into

Total Plaza in downtown Houston is slated for a makeover affecting the tunnel, street and second floor lobby levels. Courtesy of Brookfield Properties With a third renovation project just announced for another of its downtown Houston properties, Brookfield Properties appears to be gunning for a win-place-show standing in 2020 with a series of updated energy-era

It may not feel like it, but China and the U.S. are in the midst of a cold war. According to a CNBC report, the global technology sector is completely dependent on 17 rare metals that are mostly mined in China. Now the Chinese are hedging about supply. It’s what countries do when they are at war.

null Getty If you’re thinking of buying a property with a friend or significant other, you should know that there’s more than one form of ownership in real estate. Depending on which form of ownership is chosen, each individual involved may have different rights or responsibilities. I’ve laid your options out for you below. Read

Business Signing a Contract Buy – sell house. Getty Evaluating an offer can be tricky, especially if there’s more than one of them to consider at the time. After all, it only makes sense that you’d want to pick the offer that works best for you. To that end, I’ve laid out four questions that

Luol Deng has spent 15 years in the NBA and has always put up solid numbers, averaging nearly 15 points per contest over 900-plus games. The 34-year-old forward, who played for the Minnesota Timberwolves this past season, may never been the headliner on any of the five teams he’s played for, but he does have

The mixed-use River Landing development in Miami is emblematic of the growth of the new Florida. UrbanX Group “Florida is America’s Australia,” goes the set-up line for a well-worn Florida joke. But the laughs are increasing at the expense of anyone short-changing Florida and the steadily growing economic might the Sunshine State is delivering to

The museum looked like a colossal golden jelly bean. The adjacent library was designed to look, literally, like a row of books on a shelf. Across the street was an opera house that appeared to have been modeled off of some kind of ancient Silk Road fortress. These magnificent buildings were all aligned along a

Refinance to pay off your mortgage faster (c) canstockphoto.com / AndreyPopov The usual reasons to refinance are to reduce the monthly payment or to raise cash. The third option, which is under-appreciated, is to shorten the period of indebtedness. The third option is seldom used.  Indeed, borrowers who refinance into a new mortgage that has the

Home equity lines of credit – also known as HELOCs – are favored by many homeowners because they give you the flexibility to borrow money when you need it. However, they also have a downside. During the repayment period, your monthly payments can often raise dramatically, causing some homeowners to have sticker shock. If that

Residence 2646 is asking $34 million Mikiko Kikuyama This 8,500 square foot new build in San Francisco follows in the wellness footsteps of its predecessor—a $45 million home in Russian Hill by the same developers (Troon Pacific)—with a similar air filtration system that completes a whole-house air change every two to three hours, ventilation outlets in the

RedDoorz property RedDoorz As most road warriors would know, when it comes to traveling in emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, most major cities only have one or two 5-star hotels where all business travelers and tourists converge. Below that there is a huge drop-off in quality which is exactly the pain point that Amit

Bathrooms don’t look like this anymore for a reason. Getty Have you seen a new bathroom built with glass bricks in the past decade? Probably not. That’s because although glass brick bathrooms were trendy thirty years ago, at some point, interior design professionals made an unofficial collective decision that they looked hideous. The same will