Politics
Elon Musk Tried Keeping Issues at His Texas Mansion Private, Emails Show
Few people want beefs with their neighbors to become public. That includes Elon Musk. In March, Mr. Musk’s team lobbied officials in the…
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Real Estate and Housing (Residential)
Politics
Trump Administration to Use Federal Lands for Affordable Housing
Follow live updates on the Trump administration. During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump pledged to quickly bring down prices…
News
Apartments for Rent in a Former Office, but You Have to Live in Midtown
For many New Yorkers, Midtown Manhattan, with its gleaming skyscrapers and busy transportation hubs, lacks an element of cool and cachet…
News
How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom
Ben Whelan is not the kind of carpenter to wax poetic about the joys of framing a wall or redoing a roof. Like a lot of men he knows, he…
Business
Can Barcelona Solve One of the Toughest Housing Crises in Europe?
In 33 years, Marga Aguilar never missed a rent payment on her apartment in a Modernist-style building in the heart of Barcelona. The owner…
Business
How Pet Parrots Started a War Inside an NYC Apartment Building
Instead, the Rutherford leaned heavily on Charlotte Kullen. Her six-hour deposition, taken in September 2022, is difficult to read, in…
Business
What Privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Means
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two giant mortgage finance firms, have been controlled by the federal government for nearly 17 years, but a…
News
How Old Prisons Are Being Converted Into Stylish Apartments
Diamond Pearson needed a new place to live and was looking for something with an industrial feel. When Liberty Crest Apartments in Fairfax…
Business
How Fed Rates Influence Mortgages, Credit Cards, Savings and More
The Federal Reserve is expected to keep its key rate steady on Wednesday, after a series of cuts that lowered rates by a full percentage…
Business
Existing-Home Sales in 2024 Were Slowest in Decades Amid High Mortgage Rates
High interest rates kept U.S. home sales in a deep freeze for much of last year. It could be a while before the market experiences much of…
Politics
Spain Seeks to Curb Short-Term Rentals Amid Growing Housing Crisis
The Spanish government is moving to rein in real estate purchases by foreigners and curb the spread of short-term rentals, part of a…
Business
Divvy Homes, Once Valued at $2 Billion, Is in Talks to be Sold for Parts
Divvy Homes, a Silicon Valley-backed company that promised an alternative path to homeownership for consumers of modest means, is in talks…
Politics
A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses
President Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation last week that an oligarchy is taking shape in America. In Washington, the…
Business
When the Retirement Community Goes Bankrupt
Three years ago, when Bob and Sandy Curtis moved into an upscale continuing care retirement community in Port Washington, N.Y., he thought…
News
How to Come Up With a Down Payment on a House
Wishing you could buy a home? It can be challenging to save enough for a down payment, given how much houses now cost. But many people…
Business
30-Year Mortgage Rate Rises Above 7% for First Time Since May
The average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages surpassed 7 percent for the first time since May, Freddie Mac reported on Thursday,…
Lifestyle
Meet Japan’s Original Decluttering Guru (No, Not That One)
Before Marie Kondo captured the world’s attention with her exhortations to rid ourselves of items that did not “spark joy,” there was…
Business
Why Cities Are Getting Rid of Decades-Old Parking Rules
Two billion parking spots dot the country, by some estimates. That’s roughly seven spaces for every car,adding up to an area about the…
Celebrity
How Bucks County, Pa., Became a Celebrity Hot Spot
It’s hard to pinpoint when things began to change around here but you might start with the arrival of Yolanda Hadid in 2017. Ms. Hadid, a…
News
Los Angeles Wildfires Will Make a Serious Housing Shortage Worse
Each of the homes burned in the Los Angeles fires is its own individual calamity. Collectively, the losses — whether in the hundreds or,…
Business
30-Year Mortgage Rate Climbs to 6.93%, the Highest Since July
There was a moment in late September when mortgage rates, after a monthslong decline, appeared poised to drop low enough to bring would-be…
News
The Costs of the Los Angeles Fires
A devastating toll More of the Los Angeles area is ablaze on Thursday, after a new wildfire in the Hollywood Hills broke out as…
News
Who Is Hussain Sajwani, the Developer Behind Trump’s $20 Billion Data Center Pledge?
When President-elect Donald J. Trump called Hussain Sajwani to the lectern at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to promise a $20 billion investment in…
Business
C.F.P.B Sues Unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Over Risky Mortgages
A federal regulator sued a mortgage finance firm owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate on Monday, claiming it made…