NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES – 2014/08/06: New housing construction. (Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images The Labor Department’s much-anticipated July jobs report released Friday morning offers a mixed bag for real estate. The upshot is that a tight labor market will continue to underpin the housing market like a safety
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Storage unit renter carrying a box of belongs Credit: Shutterstock Moving is stressful enough without having to deal with the loss of irreplaceable family treasures. But that’s what happened to Sid Barrett and his family when they moved from Atlanta to Taos, New Mexico last year. Barrett said that after charging him “a fortune” to
Water Views Bespoke Marketing “I gave up 60 percent of my development rights,” said Jay Bialsky, principal behind a forthcoming development on the waterfront in downtown Sag Harbor. The entire 1.94 acre site has sat for the past 13 years without any developer being able to get past the Architectural Review Board, but the now-approved
As cost, consumer demand and design capabilities shape the direction of smart home technology, where do new business opportunities lie? What’s in the walls of a home? What used to be wood and insulation with a few electrical wires is now becoming a complicated mess of connected devices, a central nervous system controlling every action
A Redfin yard sign outside a home in Seattle, where the company had its headquarters. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Redfin) Getty Better than expected second quarter earnings lifted shares of discount real estate brokerage Redfin in after trading hours Thursday. Revenue for the quarter was $197.8 million, up 29% from a year ago. While the