Source: NPR —Â AILSA CHANG, HOST: The U.S. housing market today looks very different from the frenzied market of about a year ago. Sales of existing homes dropped for the seventh month in a row as of September. Builders are breaking ground on fewer new homes now...
Source: Bloomberg —Â For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area. His quest had begun on a quiet afternoon in May 2020, when the streets of New...
Source: Deseret News — At the height of the pandemic housing frenzy, Boise was not just discovered. It was flooded with buyers. That’s when housing market hawks first locked on to the Idaho metro for its eye-popping price increases. Since then, fascination with...
Source: The Real Deal — A mansion in Dubai won’t be completed until next year, but it already holds the title of the emirate’s priciest home. A mystery buyer recently dropped 302.5 million dirhams — the equivalent of $82.4 million — for a villa on Dubai’s Palm...
Source: Forbes — Virtual reality (VR) has been the next big thing in real estate for a few years now, and there is still so much untapped potential. According to research conducted by The Insight Partners, the value of the global VR market was $27.96 billion in...
Source: News Advocate —Â Some regions of the U.S. have had hotter housing markets than others, but inflation and higher interest rates have caused a general cooling-off trend in real estate prices. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, homebuilders primarily focused on...