Month: November 2023

Nashville skyline at dusk. John Greim | LightRocket | Getty Images Over the past 30 years, Nashville, Tennessee — a city known for country music — has seen a flood of transplants moving from higher-cost cities. For new residents, “everybody has a different story,” said Jeff Hite, chief economic development officer of the Nashville Area
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Sales of new US single-family homes fell more than expected in October, likely as higher mortgage rates reduced affordability, but the housing segment remains supported by a persistent shortage of previously owned properties on the market. New home sales dropped 5.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 679,000 units last month, the Commerce Department said on Monday. September’s sales pace was revised lower to
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In this article ZG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A couple assembling furniture. Drazen_ | E+ | Getty Images Gen Z and millennials are “hacking” the housing market as high prices and interest rates make affordability difficult. The term “house hacking” refers to the practice of renting out a portion of your home or
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This looks like a good fit for FiDi: Health-club chain Fitness International signed one of the year’s biggest retail leases at AmTrust RE’s 58 Maiden Lane — a three-level, 36,650 square-foot home for a new “Club Studio” concept. The club will provide “next-level” amenities and boutique fitness classes together in a single, state-of-the-art facility — including
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Sales of previously owned homes were 4.1% lower in October compared with September, running at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 3.79 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors. It was the slowest sales pace since August 2010. Analysts were expecting a smaller drop, to 3.9 million units. Sales were down 14.6% year-over-year.
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Sales of previously occupied US homes slumped in October to their slowest pace in more than 13 years as surging mortgage rates and rising prices kept many prospective homebuyers on the sidelines. Existing home sales fell 4.1% last month from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.79 million, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday.
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The prominent restaurant space on the West 50th Street side of Rockefeller Group’s 1271 Sixth Ave., which fell vacant when the pandemic crushed Le Pain Quotidien there in 2020, has a new, fine-dining tenant. Costeño Group, which operates dozens of celebrated, high-end and casual restaurants in Mexico and Madrid, Spain, just signed for over 8,000 square feet — half at ground
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The so-called “flight to quality” is more accurately a stampede, as another defection from a traditional Midtown corridor to the far West Side demonstrates. The latest to leave a mid-20th Century office tower for a brand-new, highly amenitized one is Spanish financial services firm BBVA. The bank signed for 74,000 square feet at Brookfield’s Two Manhattan
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He’s everywhere! Samuel L. Jackson is the most prolific actor of his generation and one of, if not the, top-grossing film stars of all time — $30 billion in revenue generated to date and counting. The “Secret Invasion” star’s hits run from “Pulp Fiction” to “Captain Marvel,” “The Avengers,“ “Jurassic Park,” “Do the Right Thing,” “Goodfellas,” “Patriot Games” and a handful of “Star Wars” spin-offs. Most recently, Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain
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High mortgage rates continue to weigh on the nation’s homebuilders, leading to an increase in price cuts to lure buyers. But builders are cautiously optimistic about recent signs that interest rates may move lower soon. Homebuilder sentiment fell six points to 34 in November on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index
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Potential homebuyers attend an open house in Seattle. Mike Kane | Bloomberg | Getty Images Current homeowners and potential homebuyers are responding to lower mortgage rates, albeit slowly. Mortgage demand rose 2.8% last week, compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. That was the second straight week of
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“The Morning Show” star Reese Witherspoon’s 20-year-old son, Deacon Phillippe, found himself at the center of social media uproar after offering a glimpse of his upscale college apartment in New York City. In a tour that unveiled spacious rooms, high ceilings and a unique spiral staircase, the New York University student casually acknowledged paying “West
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