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Going barefoot at home has long been a quiet, almost instinctive habit for many households, but in recent years it has gained renewed attention as people reconsider how their living spaces function day to day. From cleanliness to comfort to long-term maintenance, the simple act of removing shoes at the door can shape the entire atmosphere of a ...Read more

Teenagers aren’t turning their backs on college — but they are rethinking what “college” actually means.

And they’re doing it at a moment when the value of higher education itself is under fresh scrutiny.

Earlier this month, a committee at Yale University warned that colleges and universities share responsibility for a growing ...Read more

When Adriana Gomez-Weston first got the offer for her current job in Seattle, she was ecstatic.

Working for the catering company Compass, she estimated that she'd make around $60,000 a year before taxes. That sounded high compared with the average income in North Carolina, where Gomez-Weston, 33, grew up.

I thought that would be a lot of money...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- The country’s newest real estate specialist is Mae (short for Maestro), and she was just born this year.

The “synth human” is really part of a new AI-powered platform that will put a (digital) face on Minneapolis-based HomeServices of America, which owns mortgage, title, insurance and escrow companies, among others. The ...Read more

Owners of second homes — and Airbnb — stand to reap a windfall under an initiative in Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' new city budget proposal.

Tucked away in the more than 500 pages of city budget expenditures, the mayor calls for creating a new revenue stream by allowing people who own a second home to rent it out on a short-term basis, ...Read more

Real estate developer Caruso is partnering with the electric vehicle company Rivian to add more than 150 public EV chargers to Caruso's properties, including malls and apartment buildings.

Caruso owns several iconic Southern California destinations, such as the Grove and Palisades Village, which is scheduled to reopen this summer after last ...Read more

New residential construction in the U.S. rose in March to the highest level in more than a year as homebuilders boosted production despite ongoing affordability concerns.

Housing starts increased 10.8% to an annual pace of 1.5 million homes in March, the highest since December 2024, according to figures released Wednesday by the Census Bureau. ...Read more

San Diego home prices haven’t risen much in the past year, but that growth is still more than most of the U.S.

The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price increased 0.53% annually in February, said the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices report released Tuesday.

That ranks San Diego No.7 in the index after being first or second for much of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Brandon Shahniani is obsessed with the 1980s sitcom "The Golden Girls," so much so that he decorated his breezy bedroom in pastel tones that would make Blanche Devereaux, the show's famously flirtatious character, green with envy.

"I want to live in 1980s Miami Beach," says the 28-year-old who's the co-owner of the Fair Oaks ...Read more

Eight months after the federal government announced an aggressive timeline for the long-debated rebuilding of Penn Station, plans for the nation’s busiest train hub are expected to be submitted next week.

Former NYC Transit head Andy Byford — President Trump’s new Penn Station Czar — has promised New Yorkers a “top-to-bottom ...Read more