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Las Vegas Realtors announced this week that the median price for existing single-family homes sold in Southern Nevada in January 2025 reached $485,000. This marks a 9.0% increase from $445,000 in January 2024, surpassing the previous record of $482,000 set in May 2022. For condos and townhomes, the median sales...

For low-income families spend over 50 percent of income on mortgage payments each month The latest NAHB/Wells Fargo Cost of Housing Index (CHI) highlights the ongoing affordability crisis in the U.S. housing market.

According to new data from the Miami Association of Realtors, total residential sales in Miami-Dade County declined by 2.7% year-over-year in January 2025, dropping from 1,414 to 1,376 transactions. Single-family home sales remained virtually unchanged, with a slight 0.16% decrease from 644 to 643 sales. Meanwhile, total existing condo sales...

Canadian jewelry designer Kat Florence has recently opened the Kat Florence Hotel in Elora, Ont. Originally built in 1849, Kat thoughtfully restored the historic hotel with the help of Martin Simmons Sweers Architects, Centrix Homes and Thirteen Design Studio. The new eponymous hotel has only four luxury suites and a...

In this Ask A Designer™ column, Gillian Atkins of LRDS shares ideas on how to achieve a modern country living room.

For nearly 70 years, Ginger’s has been the destination for plumbing fittings in Toronto. Originally a tiny boutique in Yorkville founded by Ginger Eisen in 1961, the successful shop offered a range of high-quality, stylish and unique bathroom and kitchen fixtures. In the early 1990s, the retailer was acquired by...

Burton James is opening a new showroom in New York City. The 3,000+ square-foot space is designed to provide an experience for designers and clients looking for customizable seating solutions. The showroom features a selection of styles, fabrics, cushion options and a workstation where designers can create pieces for their...

Our colleague, Andrea Lillo, executive editor of Designers Today, is at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show in Las Vegas this week, and she shared some lighting intel from the show floor: Hammerton Lighting is incorporating more stone into its fixtures. For example, Corinth is a linear fixture comprised of...

he Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government has published a green paper setting out proposals for reform of regulations relating to construction products. Publication of the Construction Products Reform Green Paper 2025 marks the start of a 12-week consultation period to put in place a new regime for construction...

Seven organisations involved in the deadly refurbishment of Grenfell Tower face possible exclusion from public contracts, the government has said in its response to the public inquiry.

Construction and agricultural equipment dealer group Conagri, which represents the Chinese manufacturer Sunward, is more than doubling its footprint in the UK with the opening of the first of three new depots.

Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council has chosen John Grama Construction as main contractor to build the new Ballycastle leisure centre. Ballycastle leisure centre is a £16m project that will see new indoor and outdoor sports facilities construction on the site of a sports pitch on Quay Road in Ballycastle.