Category: Real Estate
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Take a look inside the only large-scale 3D printed housing development in the U.S.
It looks more like a project at NASA than a home construction site. Just outside Austin, Texas, massive machines are squeezing out 100 three- and four-bedroom homes, in the first major housing development to be 3D-printed on site. One of the nation’s largest homebuilders, Lennar, is partnering with ICON, a 3D printing company, to develop…
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Trevor Noah Lists His Manhattan Penthouse For $12.95 Million
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, is listing his Manhattan penthouse for $12.95 million. With unobstructed views of the city and the Hudson River in the New York Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, the three-bedroom, 3,600-square-foot duplex apartment has been beautifully updated since the comedian bought it in 2017, while retaining the historic ambience of the…
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Mortgage rates fall sharply to under 7% after inflation eases
A ‘For Sale’ sign is posted in front of a single family home on October 27, 2022 in Hollywood, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Mortgage rates fell sharply Thursday after a government report showed that inflation had cooled in October, prompting a decline in bond yields. The average rate on the 30-year fixed plunged…
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Modern Farmhouse Offers Wooded Privacy In Westport, Connecticut
Like the children’s modern classic Rabbit Hill, whose name it borrows, newly constructed Rabbit Hill Lodge is set in Westport, Connecticut. And the modern farmhouse, sited to take in sunsets and views of the Saugatuck River, does have its share of bunnies roaming the broad lawns of the tree-surrounded 2-acre site. All it’s waiting for…
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Most Americans want to ‘age in place’ at home. Here’s how to plan your support systems
Ridofranz | Istock | Getty Images We adamantly want to age in place, say experts. A recent AARP report shows that 85% of respondents 65 or older wish to stay in their current residences as long as possible. Retirement-focused financial advisors can help with both the financial and non-financial preparations to do so. “We’re often…
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Celebrated Australian Garden Designer Offers His Home For Sale
With its mesmerizing gardens, Stonefields is a feast for the eyes and so it should be. The 50-acre spread has been the private home and showplace of Paul Bangay, Australia’s renowned landscape designer, for nearly two decades. His private sanctuary, the estate is in the rolling foothills near the pre-Gold Rush town of Kyneton in…
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Consumer confidence in the housing market hits a new low, according to Fannie Mae
An ‘Open House’ sign is displayed as potential home buyers arrive at a property for sale in Columbus, Ohio. Ty Wright | Bloomberg | Getty Images Rising mortgage rates, high home prices and uncertainty in the overall economy have Americans feeling more pessimistic about the state of the housing market. In October, just 16% of…
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Housing Market Braces For Rising Layoffs ‘Soon’ As Mortgage Lenders, Home Sellers Cut Thousands Of Jobs
Topline Though the labor market’s overall resilience continues to puzzle experts, the plight of rising interest rates, which are spurring a historic plunge in home sales, could soon lead to a rash of harsher job cuts across the housing sector—which, alongside the technology industry, has already seen firms lay off thousands of workers in recent…
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Here’s how much equity U.S. homeowners have lost since May
A home awaits sale at a reduced asking price in Glendale, California. David McNew | Getty Images The historic run-up in home prices during the first two years of the pandemic gave homeowners record amounts of new home equity. Since May, however, about $1.5 trillion of that has vanished, according to Black Knight, a mortgage…
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Billionaire Ng Family’s Far East, Sekisui Submit Top Bid Of $226 Million For Singapore Condo Site
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Far East Organization—controlled by billionaire brothers Robert and Philip Ng—in partnership with Japan’s Sekisui House submitted the highest bid of S$320.8 million ($226 million) for a suburban residential site in the prime Upper Bukit Timah neighborhood in western Singapore. The duo’s offer was higher than the…
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Mortgage demand falls slightly even as rates slip from recent highs
Mortgage application volume barely moved last week, falling 0.5% compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. Rates, meanwhile, dropped back a little bit last week, but they’re still near a 22-year high. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less)…
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Historic Faircourt Mansion Asks $12 Million In Bernardsville, New Jersey
What’s old is new again at Faircourt, a Tuscan-inspired villa built for a wealthy industrialist in the late 1800s in the borough of Bernardsville, New Jersey. Set on about 13 acres, the mansion in the Somerset Hills was reconfigured in 1916 to include such details as ornate woodwork, gilded ceilings and marble floors. With the…
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Companies still have way too much office space, and they can’t sell it
Collin Madden, founding partner of GEM Real Estate Partners, walks through empty office space in a building they own that is up for sale in the South Lake Union neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, May 14, 2021. Karen Ducey | Reuters A few things we know about corporate real estate: it’s a focus of cost-cutting for…
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Inside A Carpinteria, California, Estate Set Amid An Orchard—And Limitless Guacamole
Cradled by two wildlife corridors edged with creeks, this distinctive Carpinteria estate sports a zinc roof patterned after canoes built by native Chumash that once inhabited the Carpinteria Valley, 85 miles north of Los Angeles. Set in the foothills two miles from the ocean, the four-bedroom home sits on 11-plus acres designated as an agricultural…
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House hunting this weekend? There’s more out there now
A For Sale sign is posted in front of a property in Monterey Park, California on August 16, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images After more than two years of a historically lean housing market, listings are starting to rise − and swiftly. Active inventory nationally jumped 33.5% in October from the…
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Up The Ante With High-Gloss Finishes
The pandemic turned us into a nation of painters. Confined within our four walls, we could not resist the temptation to contemplate a color change. We wanted drama, but we also wanted a peaceful environment; we wanted a graphic punch of color while we yearned for a soothing backdrop; mostly, we just wanted a change.…
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Wells Fargo mortgage staff brace for layoffs as U.S. loan volumes collapse
In this article WFC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Getty Images Mortgage volumes at Wells Fargo slowed further in recent weeks, leaving some workers idle and sparking concerns the lender will need to cut more employees as the U.S. housing slump deepens. The bank had about 18,000 loans in its retail origination pipeline in…
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Fed Makes Another Big Rate Hike In Its Battle To Fight Inflation
The Federal Reserve has decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 3.75% – 4%, continuing its aggressive campaign against persistent inflation. Policymakers suggested that there was more to come, but also outlined a possible rationale for slowing rate increases soon. That’s the sixth consecutive rate hike this year, pushing rates…
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Here’s what the Federal Reserve’s fourth 0.75 percentage point interest rate hike means for you
The Federal Reserve raised the target federal funds rate by 0.75 percentage point for the fourth time in a row on Wednesday, marking an unprecedented pace of rate hikes. The U.S. central bank has raised the benchmark short-term borrowing rate a total of six times this year, including 75 basis point increases in June, July and…
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Way Unveils $100M Valuation Upon Close Of $20M Series A Led By Tiger Global
Two-year old start-up Way will announce later today the close of their Series A round totaling $20 million with a valuation of $100 million. Tiger Global led the round with several other participants including MSD Capital, the Michael Dell–founded private investment firm which has a strong presence in the real estate technology landscape. In the…