Real Estate

It’s not by accident that this Italian farmhouse near Rome seems to ooze antiquity and charm. The ivy-covered home occupies a bucolic site where historical artifacts dating to 200 B.C. have been uncovered. Surrounded by the Appia Antica Park, also known as the Appian Way Regional Park, the 5,000-square-meter (about 1.25-acre) property is hedged with

Francesca Grace is a force to be reckoned with. The interior designer, stager, and reality star, who has appeared on HGTV’s Fix My Flip and Netflix’s Buying Beverly Hills is a true bon vivant, exuding genuine positive energy wherever she goes. Grace’s designs are also a breath of fresh air. While her staging work has

With record inflation, rising interest rates and crashing stocks, this year didn’t leave the real estate market unscathed. In March, Forbes contributor Mike Maher asked the pressing questions: Will the housing market continue to bubble? Will it burst? Is there even a bubble? By December, the answer was here: The steeply rising home prices brought

Reinvention. That may seem like an obtuse, dramatic, or exaggerated term, but it is exactly what the housing industry needs to meet zero carbon goals in the next couple decades. According to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, heating water adds up to about 18% of a home’s energy use, and heating the air

Key Takeaways Existing home signed sales contracts went down 4% in November, extending the slide to ten months straight. It’s further evidence of a continued slowdown in the housing sector, with prices down 9.1% since May. It’s an expected side effect of the Fed’s policy of raising interest rates to bring down inflation, with the

Rising mortgage interest rates clobbered the single family housing market in 2022, leading to transaction volumes falling sharply and small declines in prices. The market in 2023 will most likely weaken, but some upward potential must be considered—even by those of us who remain pessimistic. The problems are well known. First, home prices rose to

If there’s anything the pandemic showed Americans, it’s that their lives need not be as rooted as once was the case. According to some reports, contract signings for part-time residences have risen 70% since pre-pandemic days. For many people, a more flexible lifestyle means choosing pieds-a-terre that enable departures from their usual abodes. For instance,

It’s time to make sure that your house is ready for cold weather. These steps, most of which you can take yourself, will help lower your utility bills and protect your investment. As the winds howl, the snow flies and the temperatures fall, they will also aid in peace of mind and physical comfort. Tune

Did you get the gifts you wanted? Sometimes the answer is yes. More often, it’s ‘yes, but,’ not all, or not the ones you wanted. So you set about getting your own gifts. If your goal is to take better care of yourself in the new year – a perennial top five new year’s resolution!

Almost half a century ago, Boston’s skyline went from ordinary to extraordinary with the arrival of the then-new Hancock and Prudential skyscrapers. In the decades since, the city has watched as its homegrown companies have led the nation in one advancement after another, bringing transformative innovation to medicine, technology and education. Some felt, however, that