This week’s homes are a three-bedroom in White Plains and a four-bedroom in New Canaan.

This week’s properties are in Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea and in the Sutton Place neighborhood.

What lead generation strategies should be your go-to choices for maximum lead conversion in 2023? Bernice Ross chooses from her best advice over the last year and offers you the most actionable, targeted solutions.

Agents need to sharpen their skills to be able to close. Here are the top 10 closing techniques well-versed agents should have memorized so they are equipped to handle any potential objections, Carl Medford writes.

Reputation’s software will be the foundation of RentRep, a unified interface to give users the ability to oversee and empower social media management, listing marketing and online reviews.

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Are the beaches of the Caribbean calling your name, or more specifically, the magical coastline of Puerto Rico?

Then you might just be interested in this luxurious five-bedroom Spanish Colonial located in the heart of Old San Juan.

Minutes from Condado Beach and the Miramar Arts District, this home was built in the 1800s and boasts an exceptional location in one of the Caribbean’s most vibrant cities.

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Allowing in plenty of natural light, the arched entryways connect the home’s interior to its private outdoor spaces—which include balconies, a rooftop terrace, and an enclosed courtyard.

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An iced cottage topped with gumdrops and peppermint candies is likely your first thought when you hear someone mention a gingerbread house.

But a gingerbread-style home is also a beautiful architectural style with deep historic roots. You’ll know a gingerbread house when you spy one, notes Beverly Solomon of the eponymous design firm.

“They’re the epitome of cute—I like to refer to these homes as ‘architectural lace,'” she says.

For more on this over-the-top home style, including the history, where you’ll find them, and what it’s like to live in and maintain a gingerbread-style home, read on.

The Suns and Mercury deal, valued at $4 billion, sets the stage for the nation's largest mortgage lenders, United Wholesale Mortgage and Rocket Mortgage, to be court rivals.

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A striking midcentury modern home in Wayne, IL, that was nearly designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is on the market for $1,250,000.

The residence appears to have found a buyer after just a month, and proceeds from the sale are generously being donated to charity.

“The sellers have owned the property since 1971, but this is the first time that it has publicly been on the market,” says listing agent Lou Zucaro, of Baird & Warner Barrington.

In 1957, a surgeon named Chester Trowbridge hired Wright to design the 4,153-square-foot home known as “Enwilde.”

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On “Fixer to Fabulous,” Dave and Jenny Marrs always put their all into renovating homes for clients—so it’s no surprise that sometimes they end up wanting to stay.

In the latest episode, “Modern Cabin in the Woods,” the Marrses remodel a 2,850-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bathroom lakeside cabin in Arkansas for Aaron and Allyn Elleman.

When the Marrses first see the cabin, they comment that it “doesn’t feel like a lake house. It feels like it should be in a subdivision.”

They aim to use their $180,000 renovation budget to help this house blend in better with its surroundings, so that it “just feels like it belongs.”

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The numbers: U.S. existing-home sales fell 7.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million in November, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.

This is the 10th straight monthly decline in existing-home sales. The 10-month losing streak is the longest since NAR began tracking sales in 1999.

Existing-home sales have dropped by nearly 37% in the last 10 months, which is a new record.

Economists polled by the Wall Street Journal were expecting existing-home sales to drop to 4.17 million.

As the year reaches its end, now is the perfect time to give an extra token of thanks to the stager who helped you spruce up a bland listing, the photog that literally put your business in its best light with amazing pictures or the ever-reliable handyman that helped a stressed seller with emergency repairs or a fresh coat of paint. Here's a quick guide on how to appropriately tip the important players in your real estate ecosystem.

Here are four things that agents are looking for from a team in 2023. Knowing what agents are looking for is the first step, and making sure you have a plan of action is Step 2, Adam Hergenrother writes.

Sales of existing homes in November fell 7.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million, according to data released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors.

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Tom Petty‘s three-bedroom beach house in Malibu, CA, is listed for $9,850,000.

Listing agent Chris Cortazzo, of Compass, originally sold the oceanfront compound to the Grammy winner in 2010 for $6.8 million. And he’s back to find its next owner.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the “American Girl” singer wrote and recorded many songs at the shorefront abode, including “Something Good Coming.”

From this cabin-style retreat on Escondido Beach, Petty wrote in the famous song that he was “watching the water, watching the coast.”

It's a slow time of year for homebuying, so it's not surprising to Mortgage Bankers Association Chief Economist Mike Fratantoni that purchase applications didn't jump last week.

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If you’ve ever found yourself standing ankle-deep in water wondering how on Earth your bathroom turned into a kiddie pool, you’re not alone. In fact, water damage is one of the most common reasons why homeowners file insurance claims.

Most homeowners insurance policies cover sudden and accidental water damage. That includes any damage done to your home’s structure, personal belongings, and other structures on the property.

But when an accident occurs—like a burst pipe or a leaking dishwasher—homeowners want to know exactly how much their insurance company is going to help them out.

If you ever find yourself in this stressful (but all too familiar) situation, there are some key things you should know in regard to home insurance and the things that it covers.

The Passaic County township attracts those seeking more affordable homes than in neighboring Montclair, but with the same easy access to the city.

The Passaic County township attracts those seeking more affordable homes with easy city access. (And yes, an episode of ‘The Sopranos’ was shot there.)

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When it comes to demand for real estate, certain areas of the U.S. are hot—and others definitely are not. And the most in-demand spots right now aren’t those balmy climates you might presume people pine for this time of year.

For the sixth month in a row, warm, sunny, formerly desirable Western markets are nowhere to be found in the Realtor.com® 20 Hottest Markets rankings. The Southern markets haven’t charted on this list for two months. Instead, the hottest markets of November are clustered in the snowy Midwest and Northeast, spread out across 11 states.

It’s not the possibility of building snowmen or carving ski runs that’s drawing homebuyers to these regions; it’s the relatively low home prices.

(The hottest markets report factors in a combination of demand measured by the number of unique views per listing and how quickly properties sell measured by the number of days on the market.)