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Moira Ritter

Washington, D.C., United States

Residential Real Estate Reporter at CoStar

Staff Writer at Homes.com

Writing about housing @costarnews & @homesdotcom. Otherwise talking about the Eagles. Formerly @mcclatchy @cnnbusiness. Always a Hoya.

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  • 2 weeks ago | homes.com | Moira Ritter

    Dodd Harris isn’t a stranger to trying new things. He’s worked in set and prop design. He’s owned a restaurant. He even opened a cigar shop. “I’ve been doing a lot of things over the years,” the 60-something-year-old Californian said. “But one thing that was always in the back of my mind, doing all these businesses, I always wanted to build a house from the dirt up.”It wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic hit that Harris got the chance to fulfill that dream.

  • 2 weeks ago | homes.com | Moira Ritter

    When a group of former Amazon Robotics executives launched their modular homebuilding business in 2022, they planned to work with developers to find quicker and more efficient ways to build houses. But in January, as a firestorm tore through Los Angeles, destroying thousands of residences in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, the leadership at Reframe Systems decided to pivot.

  • 2 weeks ago | homes.com | Moira Ritter

    Just months after it was acquired by Compass, Christie’s International Real Estate has appointed a new president focused on the luxury brand’s growth. On Tuesday, executives announced that Gavin Swartzman would join the brand, leading alongside co-CEOs Mike Golden and Thad Wong. Swartzman will “oversee global expansion and strategy for the luxury real estate network,” according to a news release. Swartzman formerly served as CEO of Toronto-based holdings company Peerage Realty Partners.

  • 2 weeks ago | homes.com | Moira Ritter

    The Carolinas and Tennessee have become hotspots for movers in the U.S., a trend driven by shifting priorities that's expected to last. New data from moving and storage company Pods indicated that between January 2024 and March 2025, movers were most drawn to cities in the Southeast and Midwest. And they were most deterred from big metropolitan areas, especially on the West Coast and in the Northeast.

  • 3 weeks ago | homes.com | Moira Ritter

    State Farm policyholders in California could see an increase in their rates next month after the state’s insurance commissioner approved the insurer’s emergency rate hike request. Earlier this week, Commissioner Ricardo Lara adopted a judge’s ruling that grants the state’s largest insurer a 17% temporary rate increase set to take effect June 1.

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Moira Ritter
Moira Ritter @ritter_moira
26 Feb 25

I spent a week in LA with Altadena's top real estate agent. “I am a 64-year-old woman who had planned maybe to work much less at 72, and my fear is I'll be an older gal pressured still to earn a living selling real estate into my 80s,” she told me. https://t.co/YTWbNqoz8m

Moira Ritter
Moira Ritter @ritter_moira
13 Jan 25

RT @riley_rogerson: https://t.co/NBCYxZkbv4

Moira Ritter
Moira Ritter @ritter_moira
11 Dec 24

Prosecutors charged Tal and Oren Alexander and Oren's twin, Alon, with operating a sex trafficking scheme. The Alexander Brothers once (a few months ago) ruled the ultra-luxury markets in NY, FL and elsewhere. Now, they could be facing life in prison. https://t.co/tsfZULmrvC