Housing

In a billion-dollar Homes.com ad campaign, Dan Levy and Heidi Gardner travel around the country collecting local data for the listing portal, with the catch line “We’ve done your home work.” It’s the largest real estate ad buy in history,…

A few years ago, Nicole Doty of Zion Realty in Gilbert, Arizona, thought she had a client’s house rented at full price. The tenant had sent in his deposit, enrolled his kids in the neighborhood school, paid the movers and…

[EDITORS: Lew Sichelman is away this week. This column was first published in 2023.] Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the first house you bought was the last one you ever needed to own? Imagine if the house lasted your entire…

[EDITORS: Lew Sichelman is away this week. This column was originally published in 2023.] Every parent, myself included, who has uttered the immortal words “money doesn’t grow on trees” was dead wrong. According to academic research, money does grow on…

A new rule regarding listing houses for sale allows sellers to opt out of placing their homes into their local multiple listing service, the idea being to give their agents extra time to peddle the place within their own companies…

The allure of selling your home on your own, without hiring a real estate professional, is indeed a tempting one. After all, who doesn’t want to put thousands of dollars more into their pockets by foregoing that hefty 5% to…

Which would you rather pay a real estate agent to help you sell your $450,000 house: a 6% sales commission or $27,000 They’re exactly the same amounts, of course. But 27 grand sounds like a lot more than 6%, doesn’t…

In the market for a newly constructed house? You might want to hurry. Soon, new homes are likely to cost more and take longer to build. The reason: the Trump administration’s initiatives on tariffs and immigration. While the president has…