Working with international luxury buyers — now and post-COVID

In his new book “Global Luxury Real Estate: The Secrets To Selling Properties to the Ultra Rich,” Coldwell Banker France & Monaco CEO Laurent Demeure discusses going global. Continue reading

Builder confidence on the up and up

Nationwide builder sentiment rose by one point to 83 in April, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Continue reading

Madonna drops $19.3M on The Weeknd’s amenity-filled mansion

Abel Tesfaye, the Toronto-born musician known as The Weeknd, first put his 12,500-square-foot Hidden Hills home on the market last summer. Continue reading

How Elon Musk’s Starbase plans are influencing the Texas housing market

Agents in the southernmost tip of Texas, which is home to SpaceX’s rocket production facility and launch site, are seeing buyers and investors flock to formerly sleepy towns. Continue reading

New bill could make NYC co-ops explain why they reject buyers

New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh is sponsoring a bill that would require co-op boards to reveal why they turned down a potential buyer. Continue reading

Actor Rob Lowe buys not 1, not 2, but 3 Montecito mansions for $47M

After unloading their family home in 2019, Rob Lowe and his wife Sheryl Berkoff snapped up three Montecito mansions for a combined $47 million. Continue reading

Celebrity buyers and NDAs: How secret real estate deals work

Edward Mermelstein, a real estate attorney and founder of luxury consulting company One & Only Holdings, talks celebs, NDAs and what it takes to work with high-net-worth buyers. Continue reading