2026 Home-Buying Trends: Are Buyers Choosing Suburbs or Cities? Where do buyers want to live in 2026? The answer isn’t as simple as city versus suburb. Today’s buyers are balancing home prices, available inventory, commute needs, space, housing type and overall monthly costs. For some, that calculation points toward a suburban home with more square […]

What to Keep, Donate and Digitize Before a Move Moving into a new home—or simply preparing for a new chapter—is a great reason to take a closer look at everything you’ve accumulated over the years. Whether you’re downsizing, combining households, sending a child off to college, preparing for retirement or simply craving a less cluttered […]

San Jose’s Japantown is one of the city’s most unique neighborhoods—and it’s changing in exciting ways. As one of only three remaining historic Japantowns in the United States, the neighborhood has always had a strong sense of community and culture. Now, with several major development projects underway, it’s also becoming one of San Jose’s fastest-evolving […]

2027 Home Trends: 10 Design Ideas We’re Watching for the Year Ahead If the last few years of home design have taught us anything, it’s that homeowners are becoming much less interested in creating spaces that look exactly like everyone else’s. As we look ahead to 2027 home trends, the early direction is toward homes […]