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December 2020

3 Keys to Non-Traditional Holiday Decor

Forget the traditional holiday decorating rules and push yourself to find decor that is new, fresh and fits within your current home decor.The holidays are a time when sprucing up your home hits an all-time high, but it can be difficult to find festive decorations that match your style. While there is nothing wrong with snowmen, Santa figurines and lots of red and green, it’s OK to think outside the...

8 Tips for Achieving Maximum Coziness

Gray skies don’t have to mean a drab indoor life.As winter plods along, you may wish you could just hibernate until spring — and that may be more true than ever this year. But there is, indeed, joy to be found in the quieter months of the year. While the trend may have come and gone in the U.S., the art of hygge, that feeling of being ultra-cozy and content, is just part of everyday life in...

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen Reportedly Selling NYC Penthouse for $40M

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is also a serious player in the real estate world. Brady and his wife, the supermodel Gisele Bündchen, are offloading a luxe, 12th-floor Manhattan apartment for just under $40 million, according to the New York Post. That would be quite a return on investment. The two purchased the residence in the Tribeca neighborhood in 2018 for $25.46 million. The listing is...

A 3-Step Downsizing Plan

When it's time to move to a smaller home, these tips will help you save the memories while minimizing clutter in your new place.Moving into a new house is often bittersweet. You are excited for the change, but sad to leave a home so full of memories. Downsizing can be even harder — a smaller place means you don’t have room for all of your current possessions. But downsizing is also an opportunity to...

Colorful Must-See 1970s Time Capsule Is the Week’s Most Popular Home

Fans of vintage mid-1970s architecture let out a collective gasp when they got a peek inside a shag-carpeted fantasy in the woods outside Fort Wayne, IN. We saw hundreds of thousands of clicks roll in, and the waves of interest in this well-preserved residence easily made it this week's most popular home on realtor.com®. And folks weren't simply gawking. The time-capsule home debuted on the market a week...

Fixer-Upper With an Egyptian Twist: Peer Into the Pyramid House in Pennsylvania

A house built to honor the great pyramids of Egypt is now a fixer-upper with potential in Pennsylvania. Listed for $299,900, the pyramid house is a local landmark in its Lake Ariel, PA, neighborhood. The listing agent, Heather Meagher, says the property always attracts a lot of attention. “The community has a lot of chalet homes and vacation style, but this one is kind of a landmark in the community,”...

MLB All-Star Asdrubal Cabrera Selling Brand-New Florida Mansion for $8.9M

A brand-new house built for an MLB All-Star in Southwest Ranches, FL, is available for $8.9 million. The longtime big leaguer Asdrúbal Cabrera and his family just finished building the 9,000-square-foot home on Stratford Court, but never moved in. Right around the shutdown for the pandemic, their daughter started getting into equestrian activities, the listing agent, Giselle Bonetti, reports. Related...

Mortgage Originations Are on Pace for Best Year Ever

Americans are poised to take more mortgages this year than they did even during the run-up to the 2008-09 financial crisis. In the first nine months of the year, lenders extended $2.8 trillion of mortgages, according to industry-research firm Inside Mortgage Finance. The boom has extended into the final quarter of 2020, prompting analysts to predict origination volume will exceed the prior record of $3.7...

How to Carve the Best Pumpkin on the Block

To ensure your jack-o'-lantern is primed for Halloween, follow these tips.While Halloween may look a little different this year, there’s no reason you can’t still have an amazing outdoor display. If you’re not interested in shelling out big bucks for a 12 foot animatronic skeleton, or if your style is more autumn chic than gothic gore, you have plenty of options when it comes to the traditional...

This Is Why Nobody Wants President Trump’s Childhood Home—Will Crowdfunding Help?

For years, President Donald Trump's wildly overpriced childhood home in Queens, NY, has languished on the market. Undeterred, the owners of the modest Tudor are now trying to crowdfund their way to a huge, $3 million payday by appealing to the president's most devoted fans. The sellers launched a GoFundMe campaign urging Make America Great Again die-hards to give whatever they can. If they successfully...

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