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CELLARS ARE often sunless warrens of persistent dankness—making a basement guest room about as inviting as steerage. Such was the hurdle San Francisco designer Heather Hilliard faced with this in-law suite, set 14 feet below ground level in a newly built contemporary home in Los Altos Hills,

Ever wonder how mortgage lenders set interest rates for their loan programs each and every business day? Wonder why some lenders quote the exact same rate for the exact same program? Maybe why one lender is lower than others? Here’s some insight on how mortgage lenders set their rates each

A couple in Boise, Idaho is ready to retire - perhaps to idyllic Sun Valley. They think about listing their home in the city. They know they can get their price. But they hold back. They are still waiting - and not because of coronavirus concerns. They are holding back because, with few properties

Real-Estate Developers Change Course Golf greens are making way for more casual, community-geared developments Jim and Wanda Dill had lived in a golf-course community in Naples, Fla., for 14 years when they decided to move nearby to a different master-planned community, where the main draw is

When fixing up your home, especially if you’re doing so to get it in shape to put it on the market, you want to make sure it looks updated. And that means including current trends. But there’s a fine line between trends and fads. In a macro sense, “A fad is a short-lived phenomenon,

Eight four percent of new home purchases, preferred existing homes. Ninety one present  who preferred a new home purchased an existing home. What more proof is needed to convince real estate agents to farm new home shoppers and qualify resale shoppers for new homes?   According to

BY 1969, Robert Redford had ascended to the status of both Hollywood leading man and downhill heartthrob. He had just purchased a tract of land in a quiet canyon south of Salt Lake City, now known as Sundance Mountain Resort, that he hoped to turn into an elite Hollywood enclave. That same year