These days, higher home prices and interest rates mean you’ll need a higher income if you want to qualify for a mortgage.

These days, higher home prices and interest rates mean you’ll need a higher income if you want to qualify for a mortgage.

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Every tony neighborhood seems to have its own reality TV show these days—think “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles,” “Selling Sunset,” and “Selling the OC,” among others. So it’s high time that the most famous ZIP code of all has finally joined the club.

We’re talking, of course, about 90210, which is the subject of the new series “Buying Beverly Hills.” Now airing on Netflix, this show features the behemoth real estate enterprise known as The Agency forging deals for the rich and famous on some of the most luxurious properties in this affluent Los Angeles suburb and surrounding area.

The Agency’s charismatic CEO and co-founder Mauricio Umansky might look familiar to fans of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” since he’s the husband of original cast member Kyle Richards.

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As an agent, when it comes to increasing your business in the new year, you need an actionable plan before the year starts if you want to be intentional and strategic about achieving your goals.

Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street — which helped inspire the musical “Wonderful Town” — is being demolished.

This week’s homes are a three-bedroom in White Plains and a four-bedroom in New Canaan.

This week’s properties are in Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea and in the Sutton Place neighborhood.

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Are the beaches of the Caribbean calling your name, or more specifically, the magical coastline of Puerto Rico?

Then you might just be interested in this luxurious five-bedroom Spanish Colonial located in the heart of Old San Juan.

Minutes from Condado Beach and the Miramar Arts District, this home was built in the 1800s and boasts an exceptional location in one of the Caribbean’s most vibrant cities.

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Allowing in plenty of natural light, the arched entryways connect the home’s interior to its private outdoor spaces—which include balconies, a rooftop terrace, and an enclosed courtyard.

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An iced cottage topped with gumdrops and peppermint candies is likely your first thought when you hear someone mention a gingerbread house.

But a gingerbread-style home is also a beautiful architectural style with deep historic roots. You’ll know a gingerbread house when you spy one, notes Beverly Solomon of the eponymous design firm.

“They’re the epitome of cute—I like to refer to these homes as ‘architectural lace,'” she says.

For more on this over-the-top home style, including the history, where you’ll find them, and what it’s like to live in and maintain a gingerbread-style home, read on.

The Suns and Mercury deal, valued at $4 billion, sets the stage for the nation's largest mortgage lenders, United Wholesale Mortgage and Rocket Mortgage, to be court rivals.

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A striking midcentury modern home in Wayne, IL, that was nearly designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is on the market for $1,250,000.

The residence appears to have found a buyer after just a month, and proceeds from the sale are generously being donated to charity.

“The sellers have owned the property since 1971, but this is the first time that it has publicly been on the market,” says listing agent Lou Zucaro, of Baird & Warner Barrington.

In 1957, a surgeon named Chester Trowbridge hired Wright to design the 4,153-square-foot home known as “Enwilde.”

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On “Fixer to Fabulous,” Dave and Jenny Marrs always put their all into renovating homes for clients—so it’s no surprise that sometimes they end up wanting to stay.

In the latest episode, “Modern Cabin in the Woods,” the Marrses remodel a 2,850-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bathroom lakeside cabin in Arkansas for Aaron and Allyn Elleman.

When the Marrses first see the cabin, they comment that it “doesn’t feel like a lake house. It feels like it should be in a subdivision.”

They aim to use their $180,000 renovation budget to help this house blend in better with its surroundings, so that it “just feels like it belongs.”

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The numbers: U.S. existing-home sales fell 7.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million in November, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.

This is the 10th straight monthly decline in existing-home sales. The 10-month losing streak is the longest since NAR began tracking sales in 1999.

Existing-home sales have dropped by nearly 37% in the last 10 months, which is a new record.

Economists polled by the Wall Street Journal were expecting existing-home sales to drop to 4.17 million.

As the year reaches its end, now is the perfect time to give an extra token of thanks to the stager who helped you spruce up a bland listing, the photog that literally put your business in its best light with amazing pictures or the ever-reliable handyman that helped a stressed seller with emergency repairs or a fresh coat of paint. Here's a quick guide on how to appropriately tip the important players in your real estate ecosystem.

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Sales of existing homes in November fell 7.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million, according to data released Wednesday by the National Association of Realtors.

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Tom Petty‘s three-bedroom beach house in Malibu, CA, is listed for $9,850,000.

Listing agent Chris Cortazzo, of Compass, originally sold the oceanfront compound to the Grammy winner in 2010 for $6.8 million. And he’s back to find its next owner.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the “American Girl” singer wrote and recorded many songs at the shorefront abode, including “Something Good Coming.”

From this cabin-style retreat on Escondido Beach, Petty wrote in the famous song that he was “watching the water, watching the coast.”