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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget
Kiersten Essenpreis for BI 2025-05-07T08:04:02Z Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . It's a tough market for homebuyers given the economic uncertainty and high prices.
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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? . Anthony Volpe was late to the party, and he knew it. It was summer 2024, and Volpe, a semiretired pharmacist and college professor, was looking to buy a house near Orlando. Home prices had skyrocketed during the pandemic, but the frenzy had come with a silver lining: a steep drop in mortgage rates.
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4 weeks 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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1 month 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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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? . 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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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? . 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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Feb 5, 2025 | 
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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Jan 29, 2025 | 
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.
