Government & Policy

In Baltimore City, a property that sat vacant for 25 years with no roof and trees growing inside can become a fully rehabbed home selling to a buyer relocating from California or D.C. That t...

The conventional narrative about Los Angeles housing centers on scarcity and rising costs. But on the rental side, the story has reversed, and most coverage has not caught up. According to J...

In a city where 95 to 98 percent of residential transactions involve homes roughly a century old, new construction doesn’t need to do much to stand out. But a small group of Chicago bu...

The appeal of building multifamily housing in fast-growing Sun Belt metros is obvious: job creation, population growth, and strong absorption fundamentals draw capital in waves. What gets le...

When property taxes rise sharply in a market where rents cannot keep pace, landlords do not simply absorb the cost. They sell. In Montgomery County, Texas, that pattern is accelerating. It i...

The Washington, D.C. metro housing market has long benefited from a structural floor most American cities lack: a permanent federal employment base, a growing tech sector, and a steady pipel...

In most markets, active inventory represents a fraction of recent sales. In Conroe, Texas, one of six cities within Montgomery County, there are currently 1,860 active properties on the mark...

The assumption that larger down payments protect against foreclosure has shaped U.S. lending rules for decades. But recent research suggests the relationship between equity and default is fa...

Over the past decade, private flood insurance has grown steadily as an alternative to the federal National Flood Insurance Program. For homeowners in flood-prone areas, the appeal is obvious...

Building an ADU in a Los Angeles backyard has always meant one financial path: rent it out. A homeowner could house a family member or find a tenant, but selling the unit as standalone prope...

Every time a home goes on the market in the United States, the listing data – price, photos, square footage, descriptions – enters a multiple listing service. From there, that data gets ...

The Housing Choice Voucher Program, commonly known as Section 8, has always had structural demand behind it: roughly 2.2 million low-income households currently receive rental assistance thr...

Most conversations about artificial intelligence in real estate focus on the consumer-facing layer: smarter search, better recommendations, automated valuations. The more consequential quest...

Months after the Altadena fires, the gap between approved permits and actual construction starts points to a bottleneck that has little to do with city bureaucracy. Homeowners with insurance...

A property that sits outside a designated FEMA flood zone is not necessarily free of flood risk. It may simply be in territory nobody has formally assessed yet. The United States has roughly...