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The Midwest is known for good manners and kind strangers, but hopeful renters shouldn’t be fooled. When it comes to finding the right lease, Midwestern cities are among the most cutthroat places in the country. Much to the shock of shoebox-dwelling New Yorkers and cash-strapped Angelenos, it’s the Midwest, not the East or West coasts, that occupies 50% of the top spots for the country’s hottest rental markets in early 2025, according to a new report by RentCafe. CNBC first reported on the study. Ten out of 20 of the...

A six acre site in George Town is up for sale for US$29.5 million. - Photo: Lands and Survey Department The chance to shape the future of George Town could be yours — if you have a spare US$29.5 million. More than six acres of prime George Town real estate have been put up for sale, giving prospective owners the chance to make their mark on the Cayman Islands’ capital. The land, which is in four parcels along North Church Street and Bodden Road, is being marketed by RE/MAX Cayman...

The titanic alternative assets giant's latest move will help bridge a gap between lenders and still-challenged property owners, says debt strategies head. Global alternatives giant Blackstone is reasserting its dominance in the private market space with a record fundraising in commercial real estate debt. Blackstone has finalized an $8 billion commercial real estate debt fund, marking the largest of its kind and signaling renewed investor interest in the property market, according to the Wall Street Journal. The fund, which took about two years to raise, will be active across North...

Looking for a one-of-a-kind Cape house? A church dating back nearly 200 years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts has been repurposed as a home, and it's now for sale.The 3,400-square-foot, three-bedroom home in the town of Yarmouth Port was recently listed for sale for $1,990,000, according to the property listing.The home is unique enough to be recently featured on popular Instagram account "Zillow Gone Wild.""I know it (isn't) SUNDAY but this #zgwCHURCHSUNDAYS couldn’t wait because this Yarmouth Port, MA goth revival church built in 1836 has one of "New England’s oldest working organs”...

'Just getting started': Trump speech on DOGE, budget and borderPresident Donald Trump used his remarks before a joint session of Congress to spell out his vision for the next four years.One building in Nebraska is listed among the hundreds of "underutilized" federal properties that could be sold by President Donald Trump’s administration.In a statement released Tuesday, the U.S. General Services Administration announced that it would consider selling more than 440 federal properties, which it calls "non-core assets," saying many are "functionally obsolete and unsuitable for use by our federal workforce."A list of the...

Sky-high property taxes in large metros like New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago are driving retirees out and fueling an internal migration to places where owning a home won’t land you in the poorhouse, a new analysis has found. John Burns Real Estate Consulting has shared a map on LinkedIn showing which U.S. regions have the highest and lowest median property tax rates, based on the most recently available data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The dark red areas on the map show cities and counties with property taxes that amount to over...

Oshkosh's commercial properties were significantly undervalued, leaving residents with 'an inequitable share' of the 2025 property tax pie.OSHKOSH – Common council is trying to avoid a repeat of the situation that led to this year’s spike in property taxes.Oshkosh is requesting the state legislature allow the city and other municipalities to revert to previous property valuations in cases where revaluations result in huge disparities between commercial and residential property values.City council unanimously passed the resolution during the Feb. 25 common council meeting after the city’s commercial properties were significantly undervalued,...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For years, the house next door to ours was condemned. The retired federal employee who owned it lived elsewhere and seemed mostly to use the property to store a whole bunch of his junk. I would sometimes see him puttering around the library in our part of Arlington, Virginia. Though I would have preferred a neighbor who was friendly and present, I was grateful that for some unfathomable reason he never...

President Donald Trump is swinging the axe at government waste, eyeing a blockbuster sell-off of 443 federal properties spanning 47 states, DC and Puerto Rico. The move, aimed at gutting the bloated federal workforce and the pricey buildings they occupy, could dump nearly 80 million square feet of commercial space — 12 times the Pentagon’s footprint — onto the market. The General Services Administration (GSA) dropped the staggering list of “non-core” assets on Tuesday, spotlighting a haul that could save taxpayers a cool $430 million a year in upkeep costs,...

Highlights from Friday's game between Captain Shreve and CarencroHighlights from Friday's game between Captain Shreve and Carencro in the LHSAA Division I playoffsThe Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, claims to have terminated 748 real estate leases throughout the U.S., totaling approximately 9,587,384 square feet and $660 million.Along with real estate terminations, DOGE has terminated 2,334 contracts and 3,489 grants. All leases, contracts and grants, as well as amounts DOGE has claimed to save, can be found on DOGE's "Wall of Receipts."DOGE claims to have saved a total...