GOP Lawmakers Urge Treasury To Index Capital Gains to Inflation, Targeting the Hidden Home Equity Tax

The capital gains tax has returned to the forefront of national policy debate.  Republican lawmakers are eyeing avenues to lower the tax burden when an investor sells an asset, Bloomberg reports, as concerns about inflation dominate the news cycle heading into a decisive midterm election. Nearly a t

Northeast and Midwest Housing Markets Finally Crack Open for Buyers as New Listings Surge in April

April started off on the wrong foot as the war in Iran sent gas prices soaring and pushed mortgage rates back on an upward trajectory—yet the housing market showed unexpected resilience as a fresh wave of sellers finally began coming off the sidelines. Nationally, nearly 480,000 homes were brought t

‘Million Dollar Zombie Flips’ Star James Dainard Unveils Moody Bar at Arizona Dream House That He Flipped His Way To Affording

“Million Dollar Zombie Flips” star James Dainard makes a killing flipping nightmare houses into dream homes—including almost every one of his own abodes. Indeed, the Scottsdale, AZ, mansion Dainard calls home is the only domain he’s moved his family into that didn’t first require a life-saving overh

A Secret Paul Rudolph in Bucks County

The architect Paul Rudolph was drafted at the height of World War II, leaving graduate school at Harvard for the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he supervised the construction of ships. After the war, he found his way back to Cambridge, where he spent days studying under Walter Gropius, and evenings, a...