Building a single home on each of the more than 300,000 empty lots listed for sale on Zillow in June could shrink the nation’s housing shortage by about 6.3%, according to new research from the listing platform. Zillow estimates the U.S. is short 4.7 million homes, a deficit it says is the main driver of […]

A partial building collapse in New York City may more likely be explained by contractor error than from inherent risks in large-scale office-to-residential conversions. An engineer on the former Pfizer headquarters conversion told Gothamist that workers failed to reinforce columns as designed. The columns buckled and prompted evacuations across seven Manhattan Midtown East blocks. The

In late July, 2025, 30yr fixed rates embarked on an excellent adventure, moving down from 6.75% on July 31st to 5.99% by late February, 2026. Since then, things haven’t been great thanks to war-related fuel price drama and stronger econ data (the supreme court ruling on tariffs didn’t help either, because it increased Treasury issuance