Renovation is a slow burn. For multi award-winning actor Emma Stone and comedy-writer and producer Dave McCary, that burn lasted four years—long enough for the pair to carve deeper roots in New York, long enough for a project once intimate to become impossibly remote. The couple’s unfinished Austin sanctuary is now on the market at $26.5 million, offering a new steward the rare chance to direct its dazzling finale. The address is 2109 Rockmoor Avenue, a leafy corner of Tarrytown where magnolia leaves blanket the streets and celebrity sightings prompt more knowing nods than star-struck squeals. Privacy, yes, but conversely…

The Trump Organization—founded by billionaire and U.S. President Donald Trump—has partnered with a unit of Vietnam-listed Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corp. to build a $1.5 billion golf course, resort and residential estate in Hung Yen province, south of Hanoi. “Hung Yen has the potential to become the premier destination for golf and luxury living in Asia,” Dang Thanh Tam, chairman of Kinh Bac City said in a statement released by the Trump Organization on Wednesday. Set across a 990-hectare property along the Red River, the project will feature two Trump-branded golf courses designed by two-time U.S. Open champion Bryson…

Record-breaking May temperatures in Texas—topping 100 degrees—are intensifying wildfire conditions, while more than 40,000 acres burn across Minnesota and parts of Canada. While wildfires are common in the Southwest, their growing presence in northern states signals a dangerous shift in wildfire patterns across the U.S. As climate change leads to more frequent and widespread wildfires, homebuyers, builders, and insurers are urgently seeking wildfire-resistant homes and climate-resilient construction strategies. Here’s how innovators are building safer, more sustainable communities in high-risk areas. Rebuilding After Wildfires With rebuilding now a priority in many communities, California is leading the way. In April 2025, the…

Delaware is a state known for its lack of sales tax, its business-friendly laws (which is why so many corporate headquarters are located there), and its beach resorts. Delaware has gotten wealthier over the years, and its incomes now exceed the United States overall figures. Whereas the median household income for the United States overall is $78,538 — according to the latest data from the Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey — the median in Delaware is $82,855. Past studies analyzed and identified the richest cities in several of Delaware’s neighboring states, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. For this…

Philippine builders from Ayala Land to the billionaire Sy family’s SM Prime are slowing down the construction and marketing of new high-rise housing projects as the real estate industry grapples with an oversupply of middle-income condominiums in Metro Manila. Demand for condominiums ebbed after the government banned offshore gaming operators in the Philippines and the country’s economic growth slowed, developers were left with more than 70,000 of unsold units as of end-2024, according to estimates by property consultants Colliers and Leechiu. To move the inventory, developers have introduced creative pricing schemes to make the condominiums more affordable to buyers. The…

Regulations to keep forever chemicals out of our tap water are being rolled back, the Environmental Protection Agency announced last week. Here’s what to know about why these regulations were put in place, and what this means going forward for your health and safety, and that of your household. Forever Chemicals’ Health Warnings As Forbes.com staff reporter Molly Bohannon wrote in a July 2023 article, “A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey found ‘forever chemicals’ were present in about 45% of U.S. tap water, after taking samples from hundreds of sites from 2016 to 2021, marking the first time…

To paraphrase Wayne Gretzky: skate toward where the puck is going, not where it has been. For Manhattan buyers and sellers, the key to taking advantage of 2025’s summer market will be understanding where trends are headed, not what they were this spring. To that end, let’s look at some of the metrics shaping the upcoming summer market to see what they reveal about the shifting dynamics for Manhattan buyers and sellers. 1. Sales Pulse Manhattan’s proprietary Pulse index, a seasonally adjusted ratio of demand to supply, turned negative in late April for the first time in ten months as…

Opulence has its place. That place, in late 19th-century America, was about an hour west of New York City. Industrialists and financiers with sudden mind-boggling wealth were seduced by deeply wooded hills and large tracts of open land in a sweet New Jersey enclave. Welcome to the Gilded Age, country style. Fresh off the railway line nicknamed the Millionaire’s Express, scions of Manhattan society flocked to Bernardsville, a borough in the Somerset Hills where they could breathe mountain air and exercise their wealth by commissioning a haven or two to sit upon America’s landscape. Their architect would be George Browne…

The Corcoran blog Inhabit for March 2025 held interesting tidbits for Manhattan and Brooklyn renters. Manhattan witnessed a 7% decrease annually in new lease signings, while Brooklyn’s leasing velocity in March skyrocketed 49% compared to the month-earlier period. Moreover, Brooklyn leasing velocity soared 17% year over year, the highest figure reached since 2021. The borough is witnessing substantial demand as renters hunt for comparative value and additional housing alternatives, wrote Gary Malin, chief operating officer of The Corcoran Group. He adds that while Brooklyn isn’t ideal for renters, conditions in the borough are less frenetic than across the East River.…

With summer just one week away, the Hamptons will once again be the place where New Yorkers come to get a break from the city and enjoy everything the area has to offer from gorgeous beaches to restaurants and shopping. But one thing this coveted enclave doesn’t have an abundance of is fitness studios. So, it’s very likely that Nordic Strong’s 2300 square foot pop in Sag Harbor will be a hotspot this season. Open from Memorial Day through Labor Day, the studio offers a European take on functional fitness. The Nordic Strong method centers around a patented machine that…