Real Estate

Major property owners have been walking away from prominent office buildings from coast to coast. Those owners have seen their revenue drop because of tenant departures and decisions not to renew leases. The income from the building can’t cover debt service. The owners could choose to write checks from other sources to keep their loans

Many first-time visitors to the West London district of Notting Hill arrive with a handful of preconceptions grown from a passing familiarity with the Portobello Road Market, the annual Notting Hill Carnival or the 1990s romantic comedy that bears its name. Not all presumptions are inaccurate, however, and in the case of Notting Hill, these

At this point, the U.S. housing crisis is well documented. The nation is short some 6.5 million homes, and developers can’t seem to build fast enough to meet the demand. Experts expected rising interest rates to exacerbate the housing shortage by stalling development activity and further throwing off the housing supply-demand pendulum—but in May, there

What began in Miami three years ago as a pandemic-era effort to indulge in as much outdoor recreation as possible soon gave way to an enormous upsurge in the number of well-heeled Miamians owning boats. But as big-ticket expenditures tend to do, that luxurious indulgence soon generated the need for yet another creature comfort. After

Typically, luxury homes in Whitefish, Montana, are designed to fit into the spectacularly rugged landscape. Dominant styles are traditional mountain and glass-filled mountain modern, which rely on using natural materials with wood and stone accents. But there are exceptions. The contemporary lakefront home takes its cues from coastal Carolina cottages thousands of miles … [+]

Anyone with an eye for detail will be awestruck at this Spanish Colonial Revival estate in Santa Barbara’s Hope Ranch enclave. La Sonrisa was designed in 1931 by Floyd E. Brewster, a protégé of architect George Washington Smith, who worked with Carleton Winslow Sr. on the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The property sits

Amidst warnings from scientists and engineers that artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing more quickly than the resolution of ethical control issues surrounding it, ChatGPT has arrived in the residential real estate universe. Agents countrywide have begun using it to write listing descriptions and assemble pitch packages. Just last week, one of our New York agents

“I see music as fluid architecture,” legendary singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell told the New York Times in a 1991 interview. Debbe Daley saw it as an inspiration for interior architecture when she remodeled a room in her Portsmouth, New Hampshire home as a music studio for herself and her husband. The interior designer and

Traditionally, when a property owner agreed to sell real property, it was up to the buyer to check out the real property as much as they wanted. If the buyer liked what they found, they could go ahead and buy the real property. If they didn’t, they could go buy other real property instead. The

The 350-year-old Shawford Park estate recently made a cameo on season six of hit TV Showtime show Billions as the country home of hedge fund billionaire Bobby Axelrod, played by actor Damian Lewis. The estate, located in the English countryside of Hampshire in the U.K., is a Grade II-listed home that recently hit the market