MLS via Realtor.com Since it’s that spook-tacular time of year, humor us and close your eyes. Then think of a classic haunted house. We’ll wait. Nine out of 10 times, we bet you’ve envisioned a decrepit old Victorian. Why? Because Victorians are so frequently associated with the stuff of nightmares.

ALLISON DINNER / GETTY IMAGES Even if Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his cohorts stopped hiking policy rates soon, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate still would climb to 10%, according to Christopher Whalen, chairman of Whalen Global Advisors. That’s because the Fed’s torrid pace of rate i

Getty Images / MLS via Realtor.com The silver lining of free agency is sometimes a house sale. While Le’Veon Bell, the famed running back formerly with the Pittsburgh Steelers, has bounced around from team to team (New York Jets, Kansas City Chiefs) over the years, he’s also been able to offload the

MLS via Realtor.com / Realtor.com What if you could live out your childhood dreams in a “Swiss Family Robinson”–style treehouse? A magical mountain retreat in Boone, NC, offers the opportunity to do just that, making it this week’s most popular listing on Realtor.com®. More than 50 windows and skyli

MLS via Realtor.com The Goth Castle located in Hudson, WI, lives up to its name. In fact, the Victorian mansion inspired the owner to decorate accordingly. “It’s currently a [vacation rental], and there are skulls and just lots of interesting decor and darker colors and things like that,” explains l

Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Homebuyers and sellers have likely heard that America’s real estate market is undergoing a “correction” or “reset.” So how’s that going? So far, not so great. We looked at the data in our column “How’s the Housing Market This Week?” We found that several key statis

Design by Realtor.com / Getty Images (3) After years of raking in record amounts, home sellers’ profits have begun to dip. Homeowners still made quite a bit on the sales of their single-family houses and condos in the third quarter of the year, according to a recent ATTOM report. The real estate dat

GETTY IMAGES The numbers: U.S. existing-home sales fell 1.5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.71 million in September, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. This is the eighth straight monthly decline, the first since 2007. The decline was in line with economists forecasts, a

Getty Images / MLS via Realtor.com Life had to be sweet in Sugar Land, TX, for retired NBA forward Tracy McGrady, living in a luxurious, 23,652-square-foot palace with nine bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. But not nice enough to entice him to stay any longer. The Hall of Famer recently sold his longtime d

A funeral parlor is a place few people enjoy visiting—much less living in permanently—but a new reality series proves that this macabre setting can make for a comfortable dwelling for the right family. In “We Bought a Funeral Home,” Arryn and Heather Blumberg have bought a former funeral parlor in t

MLS via Realtor.com / Realtor.com A Dutch-built stone home in Stone Ridge, NY, is the oldest property to hit the market this week on Realtor.com®. The 2,525-square-foot house offers lots of spaces for entertaining, including a cozy den with a Dutch door that leads outside. Inside, there are wide-pla

GPSR / MLS via Realtor.com A newly remodeled midcentury modern ranch in Palm Springs, CA, is ready for its next owner. The home was actually built for the Knott family—yep, the same owners of the Knott’s Berry Farm Southern California theme park. The most recent owners plucked the property two years

Photos courtesy of Douglas Friedman / Getty Images Anyone who’s ever driven through Malibu, CA, on the Pacific Coast Highway will have doubtless noted Cher‘s iconic estate, which she just listed for $85 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Italian Renaissance-style compound’s famous ga

SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES The numbers: Construction on new U.S. homes fell a seasonally adjusted 8.1% in September to 1.44 million, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. The drop in construction on homes reverses a sharp increase in August, when housing starts rose 13.7%. Economics polled by the

MLS via Realtor.com Calling Ol’ Blue Eyes fans: If you have $12.75 million to pony up, now’s your chance to live in the hilltop estate that Frank Sinatra called home in the 1950s and ’60s. It was originally listed for $21.5 million in August 2021, then taken off the market in March of this year. It’

MLS via Realtor.com Calling Ol’ Blue Eyes fans: If you have $12.75 million to pony up, now’s your chance to live in the hilltop estate that Frank Sinatra called home in the 1950s and ’60s. It was originally listed for $21.5 million back in August 2021 when it included an additional 7-plus acres of l

GMLS IDX / MLS via Realtor.com A spectacular Queen Anne Victorian mansion has hit the market in Fairfield, CT, for $6.95 million. Although built in 1997, the custom home was inspired by the landmark Vanderbilt Shelburne Farms estate from the Gilded Age in Shelburne, VT. As for the relatively newer c

MLS via Realtor.com You can have the best of both worlds living in this hobbit house two hours north of New York City, in the village of Saugerties, NY. Built in 2011, this earth-sheltered spot, inspired by the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, offers the exterior of a rustic cabin with interiors that are

Getty Images Those looking for a good place to raise a family might want to head South. The best areas for families with children tend to be midsize cities in Texas and Virginia, where homes are still at least somewhat affordable, according to a recent ranking from the Yardi Systems company StorageC

Getty Images / MLS Prepare to be knocked out by this harbor-front estate in Huntington Beach, CA. It’s the home of UFC champ Jacob “Tito” Ortiz, and it could be yours for $4.5 million. Ortiz, who defended the Light Heavyweight Championship five times, built the four-bedroom, four-bathroom home in 20