For far too long, housing has been reduced to a prop in America’s political theater. It’s the backdrop for campaign rallies, the bullet point slipped into glossy mailers, the soundbite dropped to score applause. But behind every hollow promise, real families are...
A decades-old crime is solved, an emergency without urgency is declared, and bizarre happenings in the UK and Canada. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are the Hits and Misses for the week of Sept. 1-5. Hit: Justice is Done. The happiest news of the...
High-profile real estate investor Grant Cardone is proposing a new push for multifamily housing construction as the best solution for addressing the nation’s housing shortage. In a post on X, Cardone pointed to rising costs, labor shortages, and bureaucratic delays in...
The City of Philadelphia is now using a new deed fraud detection technology that can verify if the signatory on the title was alive when property ownership was transferred. The technology involves an automated vital status verification system that compares the names...
A new study is suggesting the city of Detroit will be able to partially lower its property taxes if it enacts a new tax on sports and entertainment event tickets. Detroit is one of the few large cities that does not charge admission taxes on events. Bridge Detroit...
Real estate investors mostly stayed away from the housing market during the second quarter, according to new data from Redfin. Between April and June, investors only acquired roughly 52,000 homes, a 6% year-over-year decline and the biggest drop since the fourth...
