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When Sarah Kline started apartment hunting in Austin this past February, she expected the same bruising experience she had in 2022: bidding wars, application fees stacked on top of each other, and landlords who wouldn’t return calls. Instead, the property manager at the first complex she toured offered two months free on a 14-month lease…
Seven months in a row. That is how long homes in Miami-Dade County have been selling faster than new listings can replace them. Broward County has tracked the same pattern. By March 2026, the two counties that anchor South Florida’s housing market were posting rising sales, falling inventory, and median prices that climbed well above…
On April 25, 2026, a $16 billion financing package closed for Oracle’s planned hyperscale AI data center campus in Saline, Michigan, ranking it among the largest single-project infrastructure deals in U.S. history. Bank of America led the effort, placing $14 billion in bonds with institutional investors that included funds managed by PIMCO, Bloomberg reported. PIMCO…
An estimated 20 million single women in the United States own their homes, outnumbering single male homeowners by a margin that has persisted for decades. But federal data released over the past two years reveals that owning a home and owning one on equal terms are not the same thing. Single women consistently spend a…
The safety net is gone, and the fall is getting steeper. Foreclosure filings across the United States surged 26% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the same period a year earlier, while completed bank repossessions of homes spiked 45%, according to a quarterly report published by ATTOM, a national property data analytics firm,…
Patrick Barber has sold homes in San Francisco for more than two decades. He weathered the dot-com crash, the 2008 collapse, and the pandemic freeze. But nothing prepared him for what happened last month in Noe Valley, when a three-bedroom house drew 14 competing offers. “Almost every winning bid came from someone at an AI…