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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link Thousands of real estate agents across the US opened their email Saturday night to find an unexpected message from Andy Florance, the CEO of CoStar Group and Homes.com. As the top executive for one of real estate's largest search websites, Florance had a lot on his mind.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . To anyone snooping on Zillow, it appears that the two-bedroom condo at 364 Arkansas Street, in San Francisco's sunny Potrero Hill neighborhood, is not for sale. The site can only offer a hazy estimate of the home's value, basic facts about the property, and some grainy, decade-old photos from the last time it traded hands.
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4 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Shopping for homes online once had the feel of an open-air market: crowded and sweaty, maybe, but free for anyone to drop by and see what's for sale. The experience these days, though, is quickly turning into that of a nightclub, with the hottest new listings sequestered behind velvet ropes.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Arnab Dutta, a 40-year-old living in the Bay Area, tried buying a home a couple of years ago with the help of a traditional real estate agent. It didn't go well.
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1 month ago | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Stop me if you've heard this before: Millennials have gotten screwed by the housing market. The lack of affordable homes is one of the biggest reasons for the generation's economic shortcomings — why they can't catch up to their parents financially, live in cities near their friends, or even have as many kids as they want to.
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2 months ago | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Renters have quietly enjoyed a nice run over the past two years. A historic wave of apartment construction has tamped down rents from their pandemic-era peak — last year developers finished the most units nationwide since 1974.
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2 months ago | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Clay Spence never really wanted to be a landlord. Lately, though, it's begun to feel like the only sensible option. Spence, a 27-year-old financial analyst, lives east of Orlando in Florida's Brevard County. In September 2021, he paid $225,000 for a three-bedroom townhome in a subdivision lined with palm trees and tidy lawns.
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2 months ago | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Most single-family houses are built around a few main ingredients: wooden framing, a sloping roof that hangs over the sides, vents that keep air circulating through the attic. These features are key to churning out new builds quickly and relatively cheaply, and they've remained more or less the same for decades. They also make it easier for homes to burn.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
The path to homeownership is lined with middlemen. Real-estate agents, mortgage brokers, attorneys — all help push a deal through and then claim a fee when the ink dries. Most buyers are aware of these parties, butone group mostly flies under the radar. Their fees are often hidden, lumped in with other charges or buried in paperwork. If you bought a home in the past decade or so, there's a decent chance you unknowingly paid hundreds of dollars for their services.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
businessinsider.com | James Rodriguez
Zillow's price estimates changed how we browse homes forever. Here's what's wrong with the Zestimate — and what every buyer and seller should know.
