Homeowners Keep Seeing Renovation Budgets Change Midproject: What’s Causing the Costly Surprises

Whether you’re tackling a bathroom renovation, kitchen refresh, or anything in between, your budget should be top of mind. It’s your responsibility to work with your contractor to come up with a realistic spending plan for everyone involved.  Once you do, however, don’t be surprised if it changes. 

Gen Z’s Fear of Mortgages Is Keeping Them Trapped in the Endless Cycle of Renting

Financial anxiety, shame, and information overload can discourage Gen Z from buying a home, even if they can afford to do so. In a recent report by FirstHomeIQ and National MI featuring 1,000 Gen Z and millennial consumers, 63% said they felt overwhelmed by homebuying information, 42% had put off sp

Inside Aston Martin’s First Single-Family Estate: A Glass-Walled $19.5 Million Hudson Valley Compound

Aston Martin has added a new property to its impressive portfolio: its first single-family estate. Priced at $19.5 million, the newly completed modernist estate has just been unveiled in New York’s Hudson Valley. It is reportedly the region’s most expensive newly constructed residence and features g

My Colleagues ‘Cannot Afford To Buy Houses’: How One New Jersey Teacher Bought His Home

In summer 2026, Rob Goldstein finally closed on a new home in Blackwood, NJ. As a teacher in Camden, NJ, Goldstein had sought a place within commutable distance to work without breaking his budget.  Deals on other houses he loved fell through. Competition, he said, was fierce. And he landed his new