Though not as obvious as fire or flood damage, mold can spread quickly and cause significant property issues if not caught early.

Know these common misunderstandings about the staging process so you don't hamper your listing's appeal to buyers.

Seller's agent Meray Mansour relied on professional staging and strategic pricing to quickly sell this Toronto condo unit. "Since the building has been in better shape, units are selling faster, but because of all the fear in the market, everything is taking longer to sell, so I assumed we'd be on the market for at least three weeks to a month," Mansour said.

More brands are moving into the journalism field and creating their documentaries (Formula 1), podcasts (Slack) and content platforms (TD Bank) as consumers look to brands for expertise, writes Faith Previtera, who leads the Hill Holliday content team. "People increasingly want businesses to be engaged in doing more, saying more and providing more resources for the people they serve," writes Previtera.

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High costs associated with mortgages are driving a revival in temporary buydowns, a tactic last seen widely in the early 1980s. A temporary buydown will reduce the buyer's monthly costs for the first few years based on a brief reprieve from the full interest rate.

Regional bank leaders have said their balance sheets have adequate reserves to weather a downturn in the economy and they have seen no signs yet that households are experiencing significant financial distress. Speaking at a recent industry event, the bankers said rising loan losses marked a return to business as usual after a period of abnormally high credit quality during the coronavirus pandemic.

As a conduit to consumers, you can help technology developers understand how their products are—or are not—meeting homeowners' needs.

Cloud Apartments is using a prefabricated, modular design to bring 1,000 apartment units to the San Francisco Bay Area under a business model that promises to bring affordability to housing. Units built by Cloud Apartments are shipped to the job site almost complete, with features that include built-in furniture.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is pressing Wells Fargo to settle fines that could amount to around $1 billion for alleged misconduct involving auto loans, consumer deposit accounts and mortgage lending. The total may be the largest imposed by the CFPB, with director Rohit Chopra stating: "We must forcefully address repeat lawbreakers to alter company behavior and ensure companies realize it is cheaper, and better for their bottom line, to obey the law than to break it."

Banking groups and other trade associations are calling on Congress and the Biden administration to take action to help boost the housing market, as demand for mortgages has slumped 40% over the last year due to high interest rates. "This is a resource problem where the solutions are definitely clear, and it's why congressional action is certainly important," one White House official said.