Infinity Real Estate Group

04/09/2026

A fire sale has office buildings across America going for more than 90% off.

Landlords and their lenders held on to their office towers for years, hoping for a turnaround after Covid. Now, they are accepting enormous losses.

Owners and creditors are capitulating to the reality that more employees are splitting their work time between home and office. They are also resigned to stubbornly higher interest rates, which lower property values and make it harder for buyers to borrow.

Developer Asher Luzzatto paid a mere $5.3 million for the Denver Energy Center, after a foreclosure process. The two-building complex sold for $176 million in 2013.

In Chicago, real-estate developer Marc Calabria bought a 485,000-square-foot office building for $4 million. The building sold for $68.1 million a decade ago.

These distressed sales are paving the way for new owners to pursue redevelopment ideas that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

Rock-bottom prices are also accelerating the move to residential conversion.

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03/25/2026

Manufactured homes are increasingly appealing to buyers priced out of the traditional market. The median manufactured home listing price was $141,450 in February, less than half the $410,000 median for single-family homes, according to Realtor.com. The estimated monthly payment is just $678, compared with $1,918 for a standard home and the national median rent of $1,918.

03/21/2026

This house in Atlanta, Georgia, is all about the landscaping and the materials. Originally designed by Robert Green, it is, like the recently-covered Anderson Residence, clearly inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, whom Green served as one of the great architect’s last apprentices.

From the very beginning of the front garden you are faced with a hulking beast of a mailbox, with the box itself sandwiched between two large slabs of granite, themselves supported by a further two. Link in the comments

Ph. Bedgood and Associates

03/20/2026

New home sales plunged 17.6% in January, the biggest monthly decline since 2013 and well below economists' forecasts, according to the Census Bureau. The drop came despite mortgage rates near three-year lows, with the median new home price falling 6.8% year over year to $400,500.

03/06/2026

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The median age of American homeowners has climbed to 57.5 years in 2024, up from 54 years in 2010, even as the overall homeownership rate has remained stagnant at just above 65%. NAR principal economist Nadia Evangelou attributes this shift to younger households entering ownership more slowly or later in life, while existing owners stay longer.

03/04/2026

An entire generation of young adults is being priced out of homeownership, with nearly 2 million millennials and Gen Z unable to form independent households. The U.S. housing supply gap has widened to 4.03 million units, forcing young adults to remain living with parents or roommates. The median age of first-time homebuyers hit a record 40 last year, as purchasing a starter home requires a minimum income of roughly $86,000, higher than typical earnings for people in their 20s and early 30s.

02/18/2026

Florida’s pandemic-era boom has cooled—net migration has plunged 93% in three years. But Miami remains a magnet for out-of-state professionals chasing new opportunities.

The state added just 22,517 net new residents last year, down from 310,892 in 2022, as return-to-office mandates rise and housing costs climb—pushing Florida from the nation’s No. 1 destination to No. 8.

02/16/2026

A New Jersey city wants to turn a historic 1940s art deco building that was formerly a Sears Roebuck and Co. store into a mixed-use project with up to 325 apartments, retail space, and more.

However, the move is being challenged in court by the property’s owners who argue that the city is improperly using eminent domain to take land that is not blighted.

02/15/2026

Housing affordability is expected to take center stage in 2026, with President Donald Trump promising to announce "the most aggressive housing reform in history" early in the new year.

The crisis has strained the market for three years, pushing home sales to 30-year lows and driving the typical first-time buyer’s age to a record 40.

A new analysis finds that restoring 2019 affordability—when mortgage payments averaged 21% of median income, versus more than 30% today—would require one unlikely shift: mortgage rates falling to 2.65%, incomes rising 56% to $132,171, or home prices dropping 35% to $273,000. While none are expected in 2026, the data highlights how far the market remains from pre-pandemic affordability.