🏫 New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the world, yet fewer than 2% of its public schools reflect the racial makeup of the school system. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kam...

🏠 What if the home you would have bought is for sale, but never appears in your search? The latest data on REBNY’s Participant Only inventory adds a new layer to the debate over seller choice, buyer ...

⚠️ The U.S. unemployment rate is 4.2%, but Black unemployment just jumped to 7% and only 29,000 jobs were added in September. The headline unemployment rate still looks relatively low by historical s...

🏢 Manhattan office space is getting harder to find, even with borrowing costs near levels not seen in decades. Lenders are competing to finance certain developments, billions are pouring into Miami a...

💣 Imagine buying a co op, paying your mortgage and maintenance every month, then learning the ground rent on the land beneath your building could jump 40%. That was the problem facing residents of th...

🏙️ In 12 NYC neighborhoods, the City Council is about to lose its final say over certain new affordable housing projects. Beginning January 1, 2027, qualifying rezoning proposals in 12 community dist...

🏠 The Airbnb boom made vacation homes look like easy money. Now some owners are cutting six figures and still waiting for buyers. For several years, a mountain cabin, beach house or weekend getaway s...

🏠 Zillow sends agents buyer leads. It also owns the mortgage lender and the CRM. Now a federal antitrust case is moving forward. The ruling does not mean Zillow has been found to have violated antitr...

💰 NYC counted on a new second home tax to raise $500M a year and help close its budget gap. Now a judge has ordered a do over. When Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented his $124.7 billion Executive Budget ...

✈️ Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes once made history at Floyd Bennett Field. Nearly a century later, big plans are taking shape for this old Brooklyn airfield. Floyd Bennett Field was once associate...

⌨️ Gen Z grew up with smartphones and tablets, and now AI is giving some of them a reason to learn an old skill that many were never taught properly. That skill is typing. For years, technology seeme...

🔐 What if data you’re required to provide is helping your competitors recruit you? A new fight over control of real estate information is emerging, and this one is not about whether a home appears on...

See why fall could be the right season to make a move.

🏙️ 92NY is undergoing a $250 million transformation. The bigger story is how a 150 year old New York landmark prepares for its next century. For generations, 92NY has occupied a rare place in the lif...

🏠 What if the home you want is already for sale, but not where you’re looking? Compass has introduced “See It First” as part of the largest redesign of Compass.com in a decade, giving buyers another ...

🏙️ What changed between StreetEasy in 2017 and today? According to Bess Freedman, consumers did. In a new Inman op ed, the Brown Harris Stevens CEO looks back at a period when several major New York ...

💸 Imagine buying a New York City home with a $140 annual property tax bill and watching it rise to $7,600, with $10,500 projected next year. That kind of tax shock is becoming a reality for thousand...

📉 Everyone is waiting for mortgage rates to return to 6%, but reaching that number may not tell us whether housing has truly become more affordable. The bigger question for buyers and sellers is how...

🏙️ If you were selling your home, should a real estate platform get to decide how and when it goes to market? Pamela Liebman, President and CEO of Corcoran, raises that question in a new Inman op ed...

✈️ What if one policy change could determine where you build your career, your home and your future? For thousands of highly skilled professionals, that is not hypothetical. Business Insider spent th...

🏠💼 What if waiting for a better job market and a more affordable housing market is no longer a strategy? For years, Americans frustrated by a difficult job search or the rising cost of homeownership ...

⚠️ Slowing down AI sounds straightforward. Proving that everyone actually slowed down may be much harder. Three of the most influential and fiercely competitive figures in artificial intelligence hav...

🔎 You click “Contact Agent” on a home you love. Who gets your inquiry, who gets paid for it and who decided which homes you saw in the first place? Some of the biggest fights unfolding in residential...

🤖 When the people building the world’s most powerful AI start saying it may be advancing too quickly, shouldn’t the rest of us be asking why? For years, the artificial intelligence race has largely b...

🇺🇸➡️🇫🇷 Forget Florida. Americans are retiring to Paris, and they’re changing its real estate market. Americans buying homes in Paris is nothing new. What appears to be changing is why they are buying...

🏙️ 25 years ago, many wondered whether Lower Manhattan would ever recover. Today, more than twice as many people call it home. On September 11, 2001, the unimaginable happened in the heart of New Yor...

🏠 More homes are for sale. More sellers are cutting prices. So why did home sales plunge 10.7% in just one month? After increasing 6% in July, U.S. home sales reversed course in August, falling 10.7%...

🏡 Think lower mortgage rates are just around the corner? What happened in Europe today may make you think twice. The European Central Bank raised its key interest rate to 2.5%, its second increase th...

💼 What if having a job has become the safest place to be, and looking for one has become the risky part? The latest employment numbers suggest a resilient U.S. workforce. Employers added 162,000 jobs...

🇺🇸📈 162,000 new jobs. Unemployment at 4.1%. So why does finding a job still feel so difficult for so many Americans? The U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August, nearly triple the roughly 56,000 economists...

🕊️ Many of the freedoms American women consider ordinary today were considered radical when Gloria Steinem began fighting for them. Gloria Steinem, the journalist, author, organizer and activist who ...

⚖️ Think the fight over real estate commissions is over? Another major court ruling just pushed the industry closer to an answer. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld $110.6 mi...

🌊 What if one answer to New York City’s flooding problem has been buried beneath our feet for more than a century? New York buried a Bronx stream generations ago. Now the city is spending $150 millio...

🎓 Employers say Gen Z isn’t ready for the workplace. But who was ever ready on day one? 💼 Every generation seems to enter the workforce carrying a new label. Baby Boomers were once dismissed as rebel...

⚠️ TWO COLUMNS BUCKLED. NOW DOCUMENTS SHOW EIGHT MORE COLUMNS ELSEWHERE IN THE FORMER PFIZER HEADQUARTERS ALSO LACKED SUFFICIENT REINFORCEMENT. What happened inside one of New York City’s most ambiti...

🏙️📬 NYC is narrowing the list of properties that may face its pied à terre tax. But the latest numbers raise a bigger question. Who should have been flagged in the first place? New York City has exte...

📉🏠 NYC’S ENTRY LEVEL NEW CONDO PIPELINE IS PROJECTED TO PLUNGE 74% New York City desperately needs more housing, but a new report raises another question that deserves attention. Beyond how many unit...

🌊⛴️ RED HOOK DIDN’T SUDDENLY BECOME INTERESTING. IT JUST BECAME EASIER TO GET TO. NOW EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE DISCOVERED IT. On summer weekends, crowds pour off NYC Ferry boats at Atlantic Basin, many...

🏙️ NYC NEEDS MORE HOUSING. BUT WHERE WE BUILD IT MAY MATTER AS MUCH AS HOW MUCH WE BUILD. David Schwartz makes the case that solving New York City’s shortage cannot continue falling disproportionatel...

🎬🍿 AFTER NEARLY 30 YEARS, KIPS BAY IS LOSING ONE OF MANHATTAN’S LARGEST MOVIE THEATERS. WHAT COMES NEXT COULD CHANGE MORE THAN A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES. AMC has confirmed that AMC Kips Bay 15 will clos...

🚗 🏙️ 130,000 VEHICLES A DAY CROSS A PART OF THE BROOKLYN QUEENS EXPRESSWAY BUILT TO HANDLE ABOUT 50,000. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a plan to rehabilitate the city owned central section of the...

🏙️💰 New York’s office market is supposed to be in trouble. So why is a $6.2 billion skyscraper moving forward on Park Avenue? Vornado Realty Trust and Rudin Management have formally agreed to establi...