NYC’s Flatiron Building enters its condo era, Zillow now has DMs, and more.
- Highly trained housekeepers who know how to dust a Giacometti are now more in demand than ever. The ultrarich are increasingly making their homes museumlike by filling them with million-dollar sofas and precious antiques, making them all the more difficult to care for. Here’s how cleaning these extravagant properties has turned into a six-figure job. (Bloomberg)
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One of NYC’s most recognizable landmarks is getting a new life. The Flatiron Building is undergoing an office-to-condo conversion that will turn the triangular tower into 38 luxury apartments, some with price tags as striking as their weirdly shaped layouts. (The New York Times)
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Zillow just added in-app messaging to let users share listings, plot offers, and debate kitchens without toggling between texts and tabs. With this move, the platform is aiming to make house hunting more consolidated, and more social, turning real estate into a group chat. (North Jersey)
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U.S. homebuyers are ghosting sellers at record rates with 53,000 canceled contracts in September alone. Lower mortgages and higher inventory is giving buyers the upper hand, but not the confidence to purchase, it seems. Here are the parts of the country having the biggest commitment issues. (Newsweek)
Voters in New York elected assemblymember Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor, which is also a vote for affordability.
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New Yorkers just elected Zohran Mamdani on his promise to tackle the city’s housing crisis with a rent freeze and $100 billion affordability plan. Voters also approved major zoning reforms to speed up housing construction, part of a national trend that made affordable housing plans the biggest winners of the 2025 election. (Dwell)
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