Real Estate

Anecdotal evidence suggests upscale buyers are as interested in big city pieds-a-terre after the pandemic as they were before Covid’s arrival. The difference? Purchasers are tending to seek not customizable residences, but homes that feature turnkey living. The change may flow from Covid-era supply chain uncertainties lingering longer than expected. Buyers don’t want to wait

A default on the nation’s debt, if Congress is unable to raise the federal debt ceiling in coming weeks, would boost mortgage rates by at least two percentage points and cause a slump in home sales as costlier financing puts real estate beyond the reach of more Americans, according to Jeff Tucker, a Zillow senior

Forbes Global Properties If a gated community with a guarded entry seems like a modern-day security measure, think again. Homes in a neighborhood in Alanya, a city in the Turkey province of Antalya, are surrounded by miles of medieval castle walls complete with watchtowers. Aerial view from the Citadel of Alanya on the Red Tower

After conducting series of deep-dives in housing markets such as in Seattle, Denver, and Phoenix, for example, a general trend seems to be emerging. Major housing markets, like the three mentioned, and for this study — Las Vegas — all experienced supercharged housing activity from 2021 until mid-2022 and has since been cooling off a

Forbes Global Properties Every so often, an architect comes along whose vision and designs are so tied to the fabric of the city in which they erect their masterpieces that it becomes difficult to imagine the same place without their influence—would Chicago be the same without Daniel Burnham or Barcelona without Antoni Gaudí? The two-story