A Wood-Shingled House on Cranberry Street Full of Donald Judds

25 Cranberry Street is one of Brooklyn’s most cartoonishly quaint homes — a squat, wood-frame house covered in raw-wood shingles that peeks up through two dormer windows at its brick and brownstone neighbors in Brooklyn Heights. It shows upMore »

The Greatest Gothic Cathedrals Began on Parchment

If all that remained of architecture from the 12th to the 16th centuries were the astonishing diagrams now on view in “Gothic by Design” at the Met Museum, you might suppose you were looki... More »

Loan officers are going to Washington

For a hundred years, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has moved mortgage policy in Washington. Last Wednesday, it brought 50 loan officers with it.  Loan officers are going to Washington. For a hundred years, that sentence had not been true. For a hundred years, the MBA has been the mortgage i

When standard DSCR falls short: What real estate investors should know about no-ratio financing

More investor deals are getting harder to finance cleanly on standard DSCR, not always because the investment is weak, but because current rents do not tell the whole story. That pressure is showing up in the numbers. ATTOM’s March 2026 Single-Family Rental Market Report found that potential rental