Wonder in the Woods: Pristine Midcentury Home With Plywood ‘Skin’ Is Listed in Pasadena for $1.6M

Realtor.comJust 10 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, the leafy streets of Pasadena, CA, are a longtime hub of architectural treasures.One example—the House with the Plywood Skin, designed Lawrence Test— was recently listed for $1,640,000.The three-bedroom, two-bath residence was built in 1949

Send Out the Bat Signal: Chicago Mansion Features a Living Room Batcave To Display a Fancy Car

Realtor.comPaging Batman: A Chicago home that’s now on the market features a living room with a Batcave-style space with a 40-foot glass door to display a car. The list price: $2.5 million.“It was always designed so you could show off your car in the living room,” says Eugene Fu with Christie’s Inte

Fed keeps rates unchanged, but hints that cuts are coming

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept benchmark interest rates at a range of 5.25% to 5.5%, the eighth consecutive meeting in which rates were unchanged.Members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said in a statement that they would “carefully assess incoming data, the evolving outlook, and

Can 3D printing impact affordable housing stock? HUD thinks so

Following a $600,000 research grant to the city of Nome, Alaska, that was issued last year, senior officials at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) visited the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to tout the possibilities that 3D printing technology could bring to the constructi