We Have a New Second Home on Substack At Realtor.com®, we spend every day reporting on the forces shaping where and how Americans live. But some of the most important conversations about housing continue long after an article is published. That’s why we built The Daily Address, our new second home on Substack. It’s aRead …
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Trump Says Landmark Housing Bill Is ‘Fine’ and Hints He Will Not Veto It President Donald Trump has reiterated his preference for a voting ID bill over the landmark housing bill on his desk, while hinting that he will not use a veto to block the housing package. The president refused to say whether heRead …
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Mortgage Rates Post Biggest Drop in Two Months in Independence Day Boost for Buyers Mortgage rates dropped substantially Thursday, as falling oil prices and the tentative U.S.-Iran peace deal pushed long-term borrowing rates lower. The average rate on 30-year fixed home loans fell to 6.43% for the week ending July 2, down 6 basis pointsRead …
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Hit Songs to High-End Homes: Inside Taylor Swift’s Real Estate Portfolio Taylor Swift has once again found herself at the center of the cultural conversation, with fans eagerly following every new development in both her career and her high-profile nuptials with Travis Kelce. The latest wave of speculation centers on rumors that the couple couldRead …
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Jacksonville, FL, Has a Shortage of Homes for Middle-Income Earners The dream of homeownership can feel increasingly out of reach for many Americans, especially those in the middle-income bracket. While the housing market might appear robust on the surface, a closer look reveals a significant disconnect between available homes and what everyday buyers can actuallyRead …
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Manhattan Luxury Market Booms Despite Mayor Mamdani’s New Tax on Second Homes Despite New York City’s first ever pied-à-terre tax on upscale properties worth over $5 million, the city’s luxury real estate sector remains unbowed—in fact, it is booming. The tax championed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani went into effect July 1, but Manhattan’s luxury marketRead …
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Rents Are Falling in This City—but Relief for Some Could Still Be 474 Years Away Dallas–Fort Worth, TX, has spent years adding apartments at a pace that’s pushed rents down 2.9% from a year earlier, according to Realtor.com® data. But a new analysis suggests that it would take an estimated 474 years for that sameRead …
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Key New Year’s Tax Deadline May Loom for Florida—Will It Sway More Out-of-State Buyers? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently unveiled an ambitious plan that would eliminate property taxes on the majority of owner-occupied homes in the state. But so far, real estate agents say a potential deadline to reap the benefits hasn’t had much impactRead …
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EXCLUSIVE: The World’s Shortest Married Couple Reveal Ingenious Ways They’ve Upgraded Their Home To Fit Their Unique Needs A Brazilian husband and wife who hold the Guinness World Record for the “world’s shortest married couple” are opening up about the ways in which they have customized their marital home in order to fit their specialRead …
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Home Equity Firm Hometap Faces Surge of Class-Action Lawsuits Alleging ‘Predatory’ Practices Rapidly growing home equity investment (HEI) company Hometap is facing a cascade of class-action lawsuits accusing it of misrepresenting its products by describing them as “purchase options contracts” instead of mortgage loans to skirt federal and state borrower protections. Civil complaints filed againstRead …
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