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By Ryan Dezember | Photographs by Jeff Lautenberger for The Wall Street Journal A bidding war broke out this winter at a new subdivision north of Houston. But the prize this time was the entire subdivision, not just a single suburban house, illustrating the rise of big investors as a potent new force in the U.S. housing market. D.R. Horton Inc. built 124 houses in Conroe, Texas, rented them out and then put the whole community, Amber Pines at Fosters Ridge, on the block. A Who s Who of investors and home-rental firms flocked to the December sale. The winning $32 million bid came from an online property-investing platform, Fundrise LLC, which manages more than $1 billion on behalf of about 150,000 individuals.
Sunset over Banning Lewis Ranch
At a time when home is the center of life more than ever before, one Colorado Springs neighborhood has emerged as a leader. Banning Lewis Ranch, an Oakwood Homes Community on the northeast side of town has garnered a distinction that no other new community in the state of Colorado has achieved. Besides being Colorado Springs’ fastest-growing and best-selling community for the last seven years, Banning Lewis Ranch was the only Colorado community to make the 2020 “Top 50 Master-Planned Communities” list compiled by independent research company John Burns Real Estate Counseling.
One reason Banning Lewis Ranch landed at No. 28 in the latest national rankings is because the premiere contributing builders Oakwood Homes, Classic Homes and Covington Homes know what people look for in a neighborhood: a sense of community. The neighborhood’s intentional development has included amenities and activities that make it easy for neighbors to meet and conn
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It s Not Just Florida! America s 10 Fastest-Growing Retirement Towns Show Some Surprises
It s Not Just Florida! America s 10 Fastest-Growing Retirement Towns Show Some Surprises
Baby boomers are retiring at higher rates than ever before, and that could have a big impact on real estate. Here s a glimpse at the top retirement spots.
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Last year, more people in the U.S. retired than ever before. Roughly 28.6 million baby boomers left their work life behind in the third quarter of 2020 alone about 3.2 million more than over the same period in 2019, according to the Pew Research Center. Some may have lost their jobs as casualties of COVID-19 and don t want to find another during a public health crisis, others may have retired a little earlier than planned out of fear of contracting the virus. And then there are those who may have simply felt like a pandemic was as good a time as any to live in the moment and begin enjoying the