Real Estate

Analytics firm Placer.ai reported that traffic in a 52-mall sample was up 86 percent over March, 2020. And while that still lags March 2019, mall owners believe we are in rebound mode. What is unknown is how long the pent-up demand will last. And as my colleague Pam Danziger recently reported, a survey of 1,000+

I cannot let April close without mentioning the bulge in our state. Texas has grown since the last census in 2010, so much that we are now picking up not one, but two seats in the U.S.House of Representatives. And we are the only state to do so; five other states will each pick up

Yesterday morning, two major real estate investment trusts – Realty Income O and Vereit Inc. – announced that they’ll be merging this year. The deal includes Realty Income acquiring Vereit in an all-stock transaction, with the latter’s shareholders receiving 0.705 shares of the takeover stock for each of their own they currently hold. When completed,

In this week’s look at properties abroad, I took a look at how the high-end housing supply in Manhattan stacks up against two traditionally second-home markets in Honolulu and the French Alps. From a custom oceanfront compound in Honolulu to a sophisticated chalet in Courvechel to a designer-done apartment on Park Avenue, here’s a sample

Mike McMullen is the CEO of Prominence Homes and the author of Build. Rent. Sell. Repeat!  If you invest in housing you’ve probably used the “1% rule” to judge a potential property’s rate of return. For the uninitiated, the 1% rule states that, in order to be a good investment, a home needs to generate at least

NerdWallet’s Home Seller Report reveals what buyers and sellers should know in today’s market. NerdWallet recently released its Home Seller Report. Though the number of homes for sale across the country remain at record lows it appears more sellers will be coming to market over the next 18 months. According to the report “1 in 6 (17%)

On Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row, just off Central Park, a luxury four-bedroom residence is up for sale. Featuring ten-foot ceilings, four-and-a-half bathrooms and an eat-in kitchen, the unit also includes 24-hour concierge service. The catch? Good luck finding it on the open market. The seller, whose identity was not disclosed, is soliciting offers from just a

It’s becoming known in national real estate parlance as “the Golden Triangle” — the invisible lines connecting New York City, L.A., and Austin, Texas. That’s where, demographic experts tell us, everyone is moving. So when Stuart and Rebecca Parsons decided to build a home ten years ago, they planted it in Lake Whitney, a bluffy

Most people don’t buy a home thinking they’ll only live in it for a year or two, but it happens—more often than you might think. Families expand, financial situations change, jobs require relocation, and sometimes you simply get an offer that you can’t refuse. Packing up and moving yet again in a short time span

Mother’s Day is almost here and those of us who haven’t seen our mothers in a long time probably want to buy them special. So why not express your love and appreciation for everything she does with the gift of décor? Whether it’s something she’ll use or see every day or reserve for special occasions,

Billionaire Lynsi Snyder, who took over the reins of In-N-Out Burger in 2010, is selling her sprawling compound in guard-gated Bradbury Estates in the Los Angeles area for $16.8 million. It’s the most expensive listing currently on the market in the San Gabriel Valley. In 2017, Snyder had the Mediterranean-style retreat on the market for

Accessory dwelling units are a fast-growing trend in the real estate industry, especially in high-priced markets like California’s major metros. One increasing use for these tiny spaces is seniors turning their long-time residences over to their adult children’s families and moving into small bonus homes added to their properties. “The number of permits taken out

These days every company is being valued on the data that it captures from customers, even making some organizations’ data worth more than the company itself. With that being said, most organizations are scrambling to create ways to capture that data and have it available to access anytime, which requires some hardware. That hardware can

Let’s say you have $40 million to spend on a new home. A French Normandy-style estate on 27 acres beside a pristine lake in Greenwich, Connecticut would certainly fill the bill. Situated atop a hill to take advantage of the south-facing meadow and lake views, the house named Topping Hill is set back 600 feet

Shane Dulgeroff had big plans for his four-bedroom, two-bathroom house just outside of Los Angeles. Seeking to cash in on latest crypto craze—NFTs, an acronym for nonfungible tokens—he listed the home for auction earlier month by attaching it to a piece of Kii Arens digital artwork and putting the bottom price for the pair at

The coronavirus pandemic has drawn widespread attention to existing inequalities in American society, including the racial wealth gap in real estate. As a result, a push to reimagine the appraisal process through a lens of equity and justice is taking on fresh urgency within the appraisal community.  An appraisal plays a crucial role in buying,

Kevin is the Founder of Marker Real Estate, an innovative firm with a transparent, inclusive, client-focused strategy. Last April, real estate markets across the United States virtually ground to a halt as most viewings and closings were put on hold. A year later, we’re looking forward to what could be one of the most active seasons

Proposed legislation would require that co-op and condo boards require a reason for rejecting apartment buyers, and real estate experts say that while well intentioned, it would not do much to prevent rejections that aren’t already considered discrimination under the law.  Currently, building boards do not have to say why they’re turning down a prospective

A newly built home straddling a cliff along the Santa Barbara coastline has hit the market for $8.855 million. The two-story home, which combines Traditional and Craftsman design elements, is the pinnacle of a five-plus-year undertaking that wrapped up this year, according to luxury real estate specialist David Magid of Village Properties. Sitting on about

Fifty-million-dollar sales grab headlines. But a better reflection of how New York City’s real estate market has fared recently are what might be called “regular” luxury sales. Record-busting transactions in Brooklyn’s Park Slope and Manhattan’s Morningside Heights prove the pandemic has not stripped the life from the sector. Far from it. Observers who believe Covid