Your Future Home hosts Baker Machado and Hope King discuss the biggest stories in the housing market. In a big move, Dell Founder Michael Dell has reportedly bought the most expensive apartment ever sold in Manhatten. The $100,470,000 penthouse is part of the One57 apartment complex on West 57th Street.
Plus, home sales fell in January by the highest level in over three years. According to the National Association of Realtors, U.S. sales of existing homes fell 3.2% last month, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.38 million.
And if you're on the fence about renting out your house on Airbnb, you may want to listen up. Some homeowners are now using rental income through Airbnb to refinance their mortgages. It's part of a new program by mortgage giant Fannie Mae designed to help more borrowers get better loans in today's tight mortgage market. Airbnb, which already tracks the income data, will now provide the documentation for a mortgage application.
About 780,000 pressure washers sold at retailers like Home Depot are being recalled across the U.S. and Canada, due to a projectile hazard that has resulted in fractures and other injuries among some consumers.
President Donald Trump has fired one of two Democratic members of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to break a 2-2 tie ahead of the board considering the largest railroad merger ever proposed.
Ford is recalling more than 355,000 of its pickup trucks across the U.S. because of an instrument panel display failure that’s resulted in critical information, like warning lights and vehicle speed, not showing up on the dashboard.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is set to lead a protest march on Wall Street to urge corporate America to resist the Trump administration’s campaign to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The New York civil rights leader will join clergy, labor and community leaders Thursday in a demonstration through Manhattan’s Financial District that’s timed with the anniversary of the Civil Rights-era March on Washington in 1963. Sharpton called DEI the “civil rights fight of our generation." He and other Black leaders have called for boycotting American retailers that scaled backed policies and programs aimed at bolstering diversity and reducing discrimination in their ranks.
