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...
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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,”...
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...
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...
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...