Down payments can vary widely by housing markets
For the past several years, it's been a rule of thumb that to buy a home with a conventional mortgage, you'll need to put down 20 percent of the purchase...
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Smart-home technology playing bigger role in real estate
The real estate world tends to think of technology in terms of websites and apps. But it's a big housing world out there, and tech finds its way into our...
Having an open-door policy for real estate agent safety
Sam DeBord has a modest suggestion. He'd like the real estate industry to significantly change the way it works. The issue, however, isn't a modest one. It has little to...
Is that armchair really a toilet? New products take bathroom comfort to the next level
Consumers generally aren't going out on any design limbs when they outfit their bathrooms these days — they're sticking with traditional white (and a fair amount of that relative newcomer,...
Consultant sounds alarm on Florida’s housing risk
Jack McCabe sees trouble in paradise. He's seen it before. Years ago, McCabe became something of a media darling for his very early warnings that the torrid Florida real estate...
Ultra-rich living the dream in multiple homes
What do the world's richest people do with their money? For sure, they buy houses. Wealth-X, a consulting firm that studies the super-rich with the intensity of an entomologist tracking...
Color comes to the kitchen; bright cabinets and more headed our way
White cabinetry may be dominating America's kitchens now, but watch for splashes or whole rooms of bright color to start showing up soon. "Consumers are becoming more color-courageous," according to...
Starter homes hovering on the brink of extinction
The dodo bird. The passenger pigeon. The stegosaurus. The starter home? Yes, that icon of American life — that unadorned but cherished "first house" that builders have churned out for...
Zillow book debunks common real estate myths
The best time to list your house for sale is just after the Super Bowl, right? That's when the busy spring selling season begins, according to traditional real estate wisdom....
Highlights from home-building trade show in Las Vegas
At the annual mob scene here that's known as Design Construction Week, one couldn't turn around without bumping into a forecast of one kind or another. The event that's become...