With the holidays arriving, 83% of Americans are decorating for the festivities, according to Lombardo Homes. The new-construction company is unwrapping all the stats surrounding Americans’ and their holiday cheer.

The term “living room renovation” was Googled 629,832 times per month. The data indicates that Americans are most interested in updating their living rooms.

The Sun Belt is poised for the strongest residential real estate growth in the U.S., according to the 2024 Emerging Trends in Real Estate report, released jointly by PwC and the Urban Land Institute every year.

The only region of the U.S. that didn’t experience an annual decline in existing home sales was the Midwest, where sales were unchanged year over year.

In Bridgeport, Connecticut, the seller transformed this one-of-a-kind, two-family home with her own artwork and renovations.

Tracy Kasper was named 2024 president of the National Association of Realtors® during the organization’s annual event in Anaheim, California. 

Detached single-family homes remained the most popular type of housing, making up 79% of all home purchases during the past year.

Across the map, there’s a dominant parking option among single-family homes: the two-car garage. Sixty-six percent of new single-family construction in 2022 included two-car garages.

Real estate firm leaders are worried about housing affordability and inventory in the next two years, according to the 2023 Profile of Real Estate Firms by the National Association of REALTORS®.

Today’s homebuyers are more likely to pay cash and be unmarried and childless than in previous years. They’re also entering their new homes with a much steeper income, according to NAR’s annual Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers report.

Mark Willis, who served as CEO of Keller Williams from 2005 to 2014, has stepped back into the role effective immediately.

RE/MAX Holdings has named a new CEO after nearly two years of searching: Erik Carlson, former CEO of the DISH Network Corporation. The firm’s last CEO, Adam Contos, stepped down in January 2022.

Any buyer would be “Lucky” to own this piece of pop history — Britney Spears’ childhood home has returned to the market.

New homebuyers must make an average annual salary of $115,000 to afford the average U.S. home, according to recent studies from Redfin. That’s about $40,000 more than the typical American household earns.

In the wake of the Sitzer/Burnett verdict, a new, similar lawsuit — this time on behalf of homebuyers — has been filed in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.

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