U.S. Housing Starts Fell in September Justin Sullivan/Getty Images WASHINGTON—U.S. housing starts declined in September, as single-family-home and apartment building construction dropped from August. Housing starts fell 5.3% in September from the prior month to a seasonally…
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Will This Lake Geneva Mansion Be Wisconsin’s Most Expensive House Sale—Ever? realtor.com The tiny town of Lake Geneva (pop. 7,821), an hour north of Chicago and just over the Wisconsin line, is often dubbed “the Newport of…
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Join Us for ‘House Party,’ a Podcast on Real Estate, News, and Pop Culture realtor.com; GABBY; Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images; realtor.com At realtor.com, we’re really into real estate—what the trends are, who’s buying…
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Tiny Rooms, Shared Kitchens: Co-Living on the Rise in Big Cities Alison Yin for The Wall Street Journal Co-living, a budding real-estate trend often derided as an extension of college dorm life, may be growing up. At…
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Amid Japan’s changing work-style landscape, office space provider WeWork grows at a dizzying pace The seven-story tower with a glass exterior near Tokyo’s trendy Omotesando district serves not just as a co-working space with computers and free…
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Tom Hanks’ Old Houseboat Is for Sale—So Why Aren’t Buyers Biting? realtor.com Tom Hanks once lived in a houseboat? That’s right—a floating home in Alameda, CA, in fact—and it’s just hit the market for $600,000. The backstory:…
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