Your Future Home hosts Baker Machado and Hope King discuss the latest trends in the real estate market. From robots to department store real estate, they cover the stories you need to know.
The housing recovery appears to be slowing as mortgage rates are rising and housing inventory remains low. According to the National Association of Realtors pending home sales dropped 4.7% in January to the lowest point in nearly four years.
Plus, robots are taking over! A new crop of companies are introducing A.I. technology they say will upend how properties are bought and sold. However, while traditional brokerages see value in technology, they don't see robots or artificial intelligence replacing human agents or reducing their earning power.
Hollywood closed out an up and down 2023 with “Wonka” regaining No. 1 at the box office, strong sales for “The Color Purple” and an overall $9 billion in ticket sales that improved on 2022’s grosses but fell about $2 billion shy of pre-pandemic norms.
2024 is the Year of the Dragon for the Lunar New Year, which kicks off February 10. To commemorate the occasion, the U.S. Post Office unveiled a new dragon stamp.
