As we prepare to tuck 2025 into the history books, let’s take a look back at the year to highlight some of the Hits and Misses that dominated the real estate industry. Hit: The Property Tax Revolt. The year’s biggest story, by far, was the spontaneous eruption of...
Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB), has been tapped by President Trump to lead the newly established National Design Studio. Trump launched the new initiative in an Executive Order, stating it will “work to reduce duplicative design costs, leverage...
Elon Musk is no longer in Washington, DC, but the job-slashing impact of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has a lingering impact on the local housing market. A new data report from Bright MLS found over half (54%) of DC-area agents reported federal...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: This coming Thursday, an army of nincompoops will descend on 277 Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) dealerships across the US and another 223 in countries elsewhere for a “Global Day of Action.” According to a post on the left-wing social media site BlueSky by...
HUD’s new priorities, Gavin Newsom’s financial benefactors and a pair of high-profile acquisition stories – one genuine, one not. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of March 10-14. Hit: DEI is DOA. Kudos to Housing...