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July
25

July 25th, 2026 by

Find an agent who has been working in your neighborhood, and don’t be afraid to ask questions.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Content Type: Service, Real Estate Brokers, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates)
July
24

July 24th, 2026 by


Image Caption: Lorena Waters finally landed her first home after making many unsuccessful offers.

Even as the market shifts to buyers, first-timers need to be resilient and flexible.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Long Island (NY), United States
July
24

July 24th, 2026 by

A historic building in TriBeCa stood out for its short stature. A glass-brick addition was the unconventional solution.

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Category: Real Estate (Commercial), Restoration and Renovation, Brick and Tile, Glass, Architecture, Historic Buildings and Sites, TriBeCa (Manhattan, NY), Landmarks Preservation Commission
July
24

July 24th, 2026 by


Image Caption: In an agreement announced in April, Compass became the first brokerage to join MRED’s expanded private listing network. A congressional subcommittee on Wednesday requested meetings with the companies.

A House Judiciary subcommittee summoned Compass, the biggest real estate brokerage in the world, and the listing service Midwest Real Estate Data to answer questions about their partnership.

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Category: Compass Real Estate, Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Antitrust Laws and Competition Issues, Real Estate Brokers, Consumer Protection, Zillow.com, House of Representatives, Reffkin, Robert
July
24

July 24th, 2026 by


Image Caption: According to preservation groups, maintaining affordable housing as a for-profit entity is possible, so long as investors don’t need huge returns.

Housing groups attract investors with the promise of only modest returns so they can, in turn, keep rents as low as possible.

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Category: Affordable Housing, Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Gentrification, Cost of Living and Affordability, Bowles, Erskine B, North Charleston (SC), South Carolina, Charlotte (NC), Corporate Social Responsibility, Public-Private Sector Cooperation
July
24

July 24th, 2026 by
In the running are villas in Hatillo, Punta Leona and Portasol.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Costa Rica, Travel and Vacations
July
23

July 23rd, 2026 by


Image Caption: Fair housing groups say a change to HUD grants will prevent them from investigating claims.

A shift in grant requirements would curtail fair housing investigations, according to a new lawsuit.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Fair Housing Act (1968), Federal Aid (US), Suits and Litigation (Civil), Housing and Urban Development Department, National Fair Housing Alliance, Massachusetts, United States, Trump, Donald J
July
23

July 23rd, 2026 by
An architect and his client overcame a steep site and regulatory hurdles to build a 730-square-foot house that hovers over the water in Sonoma County, Calif.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Architecture, Building (Construction), Bodega Bay (Calif), internal-open-access-from-nl
July
23

July 23rd, 2026 by
This week’s properties are in Kips Bay, the Upper West Side and Whitestone.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Kips Bay (Manhattan, NY), Upper West Side (Manhattan, NY), Whitestone (Queens, NY)
July
23

July 23rd, 2026 by


Image Caption: The mayor of Elk Grove Village, Ill., Craig Johnson, left, facilitated a housing raffle. The prize: the ability to buy a house without a bidding war.

In a novel public-private partnership, a Chicago suburb raffled off the opportunity for local residents to buy houses below market rate.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Public-Private Sector Cooperation, Contests and Prizes, Affordable Housing, Cost of Living and Affordability, Elk Grove Village (Ill), Chicago (Ill)
July
23

July 23rd, 2026 by
This week’s properties are an eight-bedroom in Northport, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Kingwood, N.J.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Northport (NY), Kingwood Township (NJ)
July
23

July 23rd, 2026 by

By one real estate industry metric, places like San Francisco and Manhattan have become more affordable over the last 20 years.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Income, National Assn of Realtors, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), Cost of Living and Affordability
July
22

July 22nd, 2026 by
This week’s properties are in Santa Fe, N.M., New Gloucester, Maine, and Lake Forest, Ill.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Lake Forest (Ill), Santa Fe (NM), New Gloucester (Me)
July
21

July 21st, 2026 by


Image Caption: A gate opens to the backyard of the house that Kate Orff, Oded Horodniceanu and their two children share in the Queens community of Forest Hills Gardens.

The landscape architect Kate Orff and her family have created a habitat for wildlife, and themselves, in Forest Hills Gardens.

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Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Architecture, Restoration and Renovation, Home Repairs and Improvements, Historic Buildings and Sites, Gardens and Gardening, Atterbury, Grosvenor, Olmsted, Frederick Law, Orff, Kate (1971- ), Forest Hills Gardens (Queens, NY)
July
20

July 20th, 2026 by
House museums that predate the American Revolution renovated for this anniversary year.

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Category: Historic Buildings and Sites, Museums, United States Semiquincentennial (2026), Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Revolutionary War, American (1775-83), Restoration and Renovation, Hamilton, Alexander, Schuyler, Philip John (1733-1804), Washington, George (1732-99), Albany (NY), Kingston (NY), New York City, New York State, Sugar Hill (Manhattan, NY), Yonkers (NY)
July
19

July 19th, 2026 by
Although you can't control rates, inventory or affordability, Jimmy Burgess writes, you can help your sellers navigate those realities.

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Category: Agent, Columns, Select, Service, Video, data analysis, David Childers, jimmy burgess, keeping current matters, local data, market analysis
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