Social media is still a tremendous tool for real estate professionals to grow their businesses. Counting social media out in the coming year would be a mistake. 

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An oceanfront estate with an architectural pedigree has splashed onto the market in Koloa, HI.

Listed for $30 million, the property clocks in as Kauai’s priciest listing.

It’s located on the island’s South Shore, bordered by the Allerton National Tropical Botanical Garden, and just east of Lawai Bay and Ka Lae O Kaiwa beach.

While the North Shore is an area popular with tourists and public figures alike, including Carlos Santana and Sylvester Stallone, who have owned beach homes there, the South Shore is more low-key and considered “the sunny side.”

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Nothing injects a special dash of excitement into cooking like a fancy new kitchen gadget. Who can resist the allure of the almighty egg cuber, or the fun they’ll have Sunday morning whipping out that pancake pen? Odds are you already have a few hyperspecialized tools stashed in your cabinets and are itching to add one or three more.

“This category of small kitchen appliances and tools is hard for people to resist,” points out Pamela O’Brien, interior decorator at Pamela Hope Designs.

Alas, the thrill you’ll feel using that carrot sharpener or condiment gun is bound to be short-lived, at which point you’ll be cramming it into stuffed drawers and regretting this impulse purchase.

That’s why we’re here to stage an intervention and let you know whether your kitchen gadget habit is out of control. See if you recognize your own kitchen choices in any of these red flags below— and if so, it might be high time to start purging rather than adding to your collection.

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This “dog” is trading the mountains for the beach.

Duane Chapman, aka “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” appears to have found a buyer for his enormous Castle Rock, CO, home, according to the New York Post.

Chapman, who has put down new roots in Florida, listed his 9-acre property in Colorado in October for $1,690,000. He dropped the price to $1,595,000 in November, and now a sale is pending.

On the beautiful land is a 6,200-square-foot mansion with six bedrooms and five baths.

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Here at Realtor.com, there are few things we find more satisfying than flipping through before and after photos of a great home transformation. And in 2022—a challenging year when many would-be homebuyers or sellers decided to stay put and fix up their house instead—there was no shortage of noteworthy renovation projects.

In our “Lessons From Listings Photos” series, we looked at plenty of homes in need of some love that went from drab to fab. With the help of home design and real estate experts, we homed in on what changes made these renovated homes so sought after—from fresh coats of paint to total kitchen makeovers.

It was tough for us to pick out a single property as the winner, so instead, we put together this room-by-room showcase of our favorite transformations to give you a recap of the best of the best in 2022.

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The property: A plain Jane 1950s L.A. ranch home in need of a personality infusion

A Cape Cod-style home in San Marino, a modern farmhouse in Kenwood and a contemporary showplace in El Dorado Hills.

A Cape Cod-style home in San Marino, a modern farmhouse in Kenwood and a contemporary showplace in El Dorado Hills.

"I used to think that there was no such thing as too much business. But the pace many of us had to maintain during the housing frenzy of the past few years was exhausting, and burnout was a real problem."

Allowing unleashed dogs in common areas of residential buildings is against the law. Complain to your landlord, and if that doesn’t work, you have other options.

As home price growth has slowed, mortgage payments have decreased and days on market have risen, homebuyers dip their toes back into the market, according to a new report from Redfin.

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Few home accents add ambiance to a room as instantly as candles. A single taper at dinner can make even Thai takeout feel romantic. One lit in the loo can turn your run-of-the-mill bath into a spa retreat. And no holiday setup is complete without a candle shaped like Frosty the Snowman.

America’s adoration of these tiny flickering flames is so strong, in fact, that the candle industry was recently valued at $3.54 billion—projected to grow to $6.64 billion by 2027.

However, one has to ask: Have we gone too far?

Much like there are crazy plant people and people who have way too many specialized kitchen gadgets, certain people may have too much wax for their own good.

We asked the buzzy new AI tool ChatGPT to write a report for Inman on iBuyers, technology and tips for agents going into the new year. Turns out, the bot might have a bright future in real estate.

Ahead of Inman Connect New York where she will discuss with other top producers how to become the star agent in a market, the luxury agent said she has ambitious plans for the new year.

Washington County, a one-time remote region of southern Utah’s high desert, experienced the most number of mortgage rate locks for second homes, experiencing a year-over-year jump of 10.3 percent.

Luxury buyers finally decided to take a pause in 2022 as economic volatility shook the market. But despite a market slowdown, luxury companies and agents continued to make interesting moves.

Catch up on this week's most-read stories, as determined by Inman's readers. Here are the top 5 stories of the week, Dec. 16-22, 2022.

New-home sales rose 5.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted rate of 640,000, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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A Garrison Colonial built in 1725 in North Haven, CT, is the oldest property to hit the market this week on Realtor.com®.

The 2,812-square-foot home boasts lots of history with many period details. The two-story structure features a second level that overhangs the front of the home, with an exterior chimney in classic Garrison design.

Other gems on the market this week include a pre-Revolutionary War estate in South Carolina, an updated New England antique in Massachusetts, and a farmhouse in Pennsylvania.

Scroll down for a full look at this week’s 10 oldest homes.

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While some design trends stick around much longer than they should (hello, all-gray kitchens and rose-gold hardware), others have well-earned staying power. As we move closer to the new year, we wanted to celebrate some of our favorite design trends of 2022 that are poised to stick around—with a focus on the space you’ll be spending a lot of time in these next few weeks: the dining room.

So, before you gather around your table and reflect on what you’d like the next year to look like, take a gander at these five fashionable dining room looks. Ahead, you’ll find insight from designers and product suggestions that’ll be especially helpful if you’re planning on an interior revamp in 2023.

1. Vintage & craft furniture

 Incorporating classic pieces was a huge trend in 2022, especially when it came to vintage and craft furniture, like we see in this dining room from @finding__lovely.

“This trend was so popular in 2022 because it was relaxed, and we all needed a beautiful, multifunctional space to gather with family and friends,” says designer Megan Nelson, of @nestwiththenelsons. “Our homes have to work harder than ever for us. This dining room, and its design with vintage and craft furniture, does just that.”

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For generations, the vision of coming home for the holidays has been feasts with family and friends, garlands and mistletoe hanging overhead, and homes decked out in lights as it snows lightly outside.

But some parts of the country get more into the holiday spirit than others. And while certain holiday decorations are perennially popular, others have fallen out of favor.

The most festive city in the nation for holiday decorations is Las Vegas, according to a recent study commissioned by Michigan-based home builders Lombardo Homes. (The study looked at how much residents searched for holiday decorations online per capita.) It was followed by Denver, Baltimore, Nashville, TN, and Dallas.

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