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First-time buyers, the self-employed and older borrowers could soon find it easier to secure a mortgage under a package of reforms proposed by the Financial Conduct Authority, as the regulator moves to modernise lending rules to reflect changing working lives and demographics. The FCA said it plans to simplify mortgage regulations and loosen restrictions on lenders to allow more flexible products, better suited to people with irregular incomes, later-life borrowing needs and non-traditional career paths.

In late March, after much discussion among agents and brokers, NAR announced its Multiple Listing Options of Sellers (MLOS) policy, which created delayed marketing exempt listings. Under this policy, while brokers must still input a listing into the MLS within 24 hours of public marketing, if they mark the listing as delayed it would be withheld from IDX feeds and not be syndicated to other websites.

Ema Peter + 18 Architects: Splyce Design Area of this architecture project Area: 5700 ft Completion year of this architecture project Year: 2021 Photographs:Ema Peter Brands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Swisspearl, Schuco Lead Architects: Nigel Parish

Between November 2023 and November 2024, U.S. active housing inventory for sale rose +26.1%. Between November 2024 and November 2025, U.S. active housing inventory for sale rose +12.6%. Some of that percentage deceleration is a denominator effect (i.e., as U.S. active inventory rises, it takes an even larger increase to generate the same year-over-year percentage gain). That said, the deceleration is not only due to a denominator effect.

My understanding is my father has the right of residence, but I certainly never agreed that someone else could move onto the property. Dear Mary Frances, I read some recent advice you gave on rights of residence, and it has prompted me to write to you. Several years ago, after my mother passed away, the farm was transferred into my name. As part of that arrangement, my father kept what I understood to be a right of residence in the farmhouse.

Bad Bunny's houses in Los Angeles are the epitome of luxury, and he's come a long way from his modest upbringing in Almirante Sur, a rural area in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Still, the reggaetón, trap, and pop musician enjoys frequent visits home, and earlier this year held a 30-day residency in San Juan in support of his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which serves as a love letter to the Caribbean island.

For the right buyer who has the vision to look past the Permastone exterior, this South Midwood residence is just bursting with details in gleaming condition. Built-ins, wood floors, wainscoting, and mantels are among the early 20th century period elements. At 685 East 22nd Street, the detached house is on the corner of Farragut Avenue and has yard space and a two-car garage.

The search result displays include all property details, along with links to request a tour or contact a buyer's agent. The displays note that the property results are not supplied or sponsored by listing agents or brokers. Industry analysts say the potential for Google to enter into the home search portal space has been viewed as a tail risk to portals like Zillow and CoStar, as well as other industry players, for years.

Homebuilding executives remain downbeat, citing a range of current conditions marked by buyer hesitancy, economic uncertainty, shrinking profit margins, increased use of incentives, and high costs. However, homebuilders whose primary focus is the strained entry-level buyer segment face the biggest hurdles. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI)'s builder confidence gauge remained range-bound at a below-par level, rising one point to 39 in December.

In terms of capacity, it will be the city's largest hyperscale data center, with a single major cloud player as its tenant. The project involves 78MW of new capacity, according to Reuters. That may sound modest, but in a European context, the figure is striking. The new capacity represents approximately 7 percent of the total 1,162MW of new live data center capacity added in continental Europe this year.

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Between March 2020 and March 2023, appreciated 36.1% in rural areas, more than doubling their rate of growth in the preceding three-year period, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. In areas with high percentages of seasonal second homes and vacation properties, the surge was even more pronounced at 46.8%, rising from 17.4% from 2016 to 2019, a new working paper by Harvard JCHS' Alexander Hermann and Peyton Whitney finds. Alongside the appeal of nearby natural attractions, such as lakes and mountains, the communities also offer robust infrastructure aimed at supporting traffic flows brought by the tourism industry.

Comedian and actress Amy Schumer has officially offloaded her renovated and restored 19th-century townhouse in New York's historic Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. The Federal-style residence was first offered for $14 million in March, then subsequently relisted for nearly $12.8 million. Now, with The Kinda Pregnant and I Feel Pretty star and her newly estranged husband Chris Fischer headed for divorce, the place is under contract to be sold for $11 million, a whopping $1.25 million less than the $12.3 million they paid in 2022.

The tech titan, which is expanding in the South Bay, has struck a deal to sublease a full office building at 625 North Mary Ave. in Sunnyvale, according to several sources with knowledge of the rental deal. Proofpoint is the tenant in the 625 North Mary building and subleased the offices to Apple. The 625 North Mary building totals 121,200 square feet, according to a marketing brochure prepared by Cushman & Wakefield commercial real estate brokers Brandon Bain, Erik Hallgrimson, Joe Brady, and Mike Drew.

When the owner-CEO of a regional homebuilding powerhouse opens the hood and talks about what's in there, what's striking are two things. One is a Peter Drucker mantra, you can only manage what you can measure. The other, amidst a whirlwind of buzzwords, truisms, and abstractions, is an utter absence of jargon, striking in its clarity, honesty, and rigor. Listen, for a moment, to one such regional homebuilding enterprise business leader.

Figuring out how to prepare for a home inspection before you list your home comes down to three things: make every major system easy to access, knock out small but telling maintenance fixes, and set the house up so the inspector can work safely and efficiently. A little prep now helps the inspection reflect your home's true condition, reduces the chance of preventable red flags, and keeps your sale on track

Most buyers will get a standard home inspection to understand a home's condition and uncover any underlying problems. But an FHA appraisal inspection serves two distinct purposes, meant to protect both the lender and future occupant: It verifies the home's value and confirms the property meets federal Housing and Development (HUD) Minimum Property Requirements (MPRs). In other words, if you're buying with an FHA loan, the home must be safe, structurally sound, and free of hazards that could affect an occupant's health.

Matheson most recently served as the CEO of Coinbase Canada. Prior to this, Matheson spent five years in a variety of operational roles at Shopify where he oversaw things like M&A, corporate financial planning and strategic expansion. Matheson is the second Shopify alum to join Opendoor's executive team, as the iBuyer's new CEO Kaz Nejatian had previously served as Shopify's chief operating officer. In his new role, Matheson will oversee corporate development, financial planning and analysis, and new and emerging strategic initiatives.

If you've always hoped to own a pied-à-terre in Paris but your budget is limited, the good news is that you can still make that dream a reality. With this Marais fractional ownership opportunity, you can spend several weeks each year living in a beautifully designed Paris apartment that you partially own - without the cost or complexity of full ownership.

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"Your trusted Dublin 6 agents," goes the tagline on a new advertisement for Sherry FitzGerald that we spotted in Ranelagh last week. Dublin 6 is also home to ­Mullery O'Gara estate agents, the subject of a recent investigation by the Irish Independent which revealed that the firm got a UK businessman to pretend to be the owner of a house it was selling.

Cleveland continues to rock and stand out as a popular place for prospective buyers looking for a bargain. The Realtor.com® November 2025 Housing Trends Report found that more and more buyers nationwide are seeking affordability in a high-cost, high-rate environment. But with national prices slipping and homes sitting longer on the market, more shoppers are redirecting their searches toward "refuge markets"- aka, traditionally lower-priced metros where each dollar goes further.

So Austin decided to try something a bit unconventional. He offered seller financing - an agreement in which the seller acts as the lender, typically providing the buyer with a short-term home loan. In Austin's case, he held firm on the home's sale price, but offered a below-market interest rate to entice buyers. As soon as he offered the creative financing option, interest picked up.

Cincinnati's prices and pace support its growing appeal. Cincinnati posted a median list price of $335,000 in November, up 4.7% from last year. Price per square foot rose 2.9% year-over-year, outperforming national trends, where PPSF declined 1.0%. The metro also recorded 13.3% PPSF growth since 2022, a defining marker of refuge markets where affordability and long-term appreciation coexist.

"There is a God." That was the reaction of Tipperary farmer John Hurley when he heard that billionaire John Magnier had lost his High Court case, seeking to compel the Thomson-Moore family to sell their 751-acre Barne Estate to him ... It was a bad week for Magnier, the billionaire horse racing magnate who runs his empire from Coolmore, Co Tipperary. In the same week that he lost the Barne case, which could cost him €7m in legal fees,

I left New York and moved back to Florida without a plan. My younger daughter offered me a mobile home on her property to stay in while I figured it out. I moved in and didn't move out. It felt just right. It is small and easy for me to take care of. It's the perfect size to fit the things I hold dear. I call it "The Teapot."

Helsingborg-based proptech AI startup Proplab continues to build momentum. After opening up their platform for residential real estate this fall, the company has seen rapid growth, now with 100+ broker offices connected across Sweden, on top of their existing commercial property clients. Over the past months, Proplab has established a collaboration with a major brokerage chain and another one is now on the way in. Their traction is clear, revenues more than doubled from October to November this year.