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A tale of two housing markets: Luxury demand surges as affordability squeezes starter-home buyers
The U.S. housing market is trending in two different directions as a new report from Zillow finds that while demand for luxury homes is surging, starter home sales are softening with growing inventory. Zillow's data defines starter homes as those…
Exploring The Potential Of Mixed-Income Multifamily Housing
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A new Urban Institute study highlights mixed-income housing as a potential solution to the U.S. housing crisis, addressing supply…
UFC White House: UFC loses $30m staging Freedom 250 event at White House
Lorraine McKenna BBC Sport Journalist UFC owners lost $30m (£22m) staging the Freedom 250 event, which was attended by US President Donald Trump, at the White House in June. Despite the one-off event's losses, which UFC expected, the…
How data centers are making it harder for Americans to get housing
Data center developers are paying 'impossible prices' for land and outbidding homebuilders, leaving them to face a 'losing battle' just as the U.S. housing market is short of millions of affordable homes, according to a new report. The National…
London 'worse than any other city' for affordable housing planning delays
Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysis I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. London is the city with the worst planning…
Microsoft's In-House AI Beats Frontier Models At Half The Cost
The Microsoft corporate logo is illuminated at the Fira Gran Via booth during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 5, 2026. The event marks the debut of the Microsoft Telecom Agentic Store reference framework and Azure Local for…
The View | Affordable housing a critical gap in India's real estate boom
India's property market has gone from strength to strength. All the main sectors continue to perform extremely well. Last year, take-up of shopping centre and warehouse space reached record highs. In the first half of this year, office leasing…
White House hosting AI leaders to discuss evaluation framework
Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The Trump administration is hosting leaders in the AI industry on Tuesday to discuss a framework plan for evaluating AI models. Administration officials will meet with leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google at the White House as…
Home Office lifts asylum seeker housing pause in County Durham
A pause on buying new housing for asylum seekers in a county has been lifted. In June 2025, the Home Office temporarily halted the purchase of accommodation in County Durham because it believed it had 'sufficient capacity' in the region. But it…
US tech giants invited to discuss AI security tests at White House
Technology giants Meta and Anthropic will be among the companies invited to the White House on Tuesday to discuss a voluntary framework under which America's leading artificial intelligence (AI) developers could give the government early access to…
Fire damages three houses on 26th Avenue in Hull
Three properties were damaged following a 'well-established' fire on a Hull estate earlier. Humberside Fire and Rescue said it received reports of a house fire spreading into neighbouring homes on 26th Avenue at about 13:00 BST. Five fire engines…
Fire damages three houses on 26th Avenue in Hull
Grace McGrory East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Three properties were damaged following a 'well-established' fire on a Hull estate earlier. Humberside Fire and Rescue said it received reports of a house fire spreading into neighbouring homes on 26th…
How Did Sunfyre Survive On 'House of the Dragon'
There were so many dragons in the penultimate episode of House of the Dragon season 3 (as there should be) that it's hard to focus on the most surprising reveal. Sure, we finally saw Helaena's dragon, and the girls were fightin g in the Riverlands…
How Republicans could maintain House control in midterms: Top pollster
Despite a string of unfavorable national polls, election forecaster Nate Silver says Republicans may still have a path to maintaining control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections—though he describes it as a 'fairly…
JPMorgan Chase to invest $750 billion in increasing the U.S. housing supply and homeownership
JPMorgan Chase said on Monday it will invest $750 billion through 2035 to boost the U.S. housing supply, including financing for 1 million affordable housing units and assisting 500,000 people in buying homes. The investment is part of JPMorgan…
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