The typical American homeowner now stays in the same house for 12 years, nearly double the 6.5-year median from 2005, according to Redfin’s homeowner tenure research. In Los Angeles, that number climbs to a full 20 years, the longest of any major U.S. metro. In Louisville, Kentucky, it’s just 8.3 years. The gap between those … Read more
First-time buyers made up just 21% of all home purchases this year, the smallest share the National Association of Realtors has recorded since it began tracking the figure in 1981. Meanwhile, Baby Boomers now account for 42% of all buyers and 55% of all sellers, according to NAR’s 2026 Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends … Read more
Six weeks. That’s roughly how long spring-blooming tulip bulbs need in the ground before the soil turns hard, and for a huge swath of the country, that window is already closing as August ends. The USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map, last updated at the end of 2023 using 1991-2020 climate data from more than 13,000 … Read more
One fall lawn treatment, running somewhere in the $100 to $400 range with $150 as a common price for a single application, is the difference between grass that greens up on schedule next April and a yard that needs a near-total redo. Full lawn renovation, the kind required when a lawn dies over winter, averages … Read more
Of the 17 million tons of textiles Americans threw away in the most recent year the EPA tracked in detail, 11.3 million tons went straight into a landfill. Only 14.7% got recycled in any form, according to the EPA’s own Facts and Figures report. That means the bag of old clothes sitting by the front … Read more
A chimney inspection costs an average of $450. A structural chimney rebuild triggered by damage that inspection would have caught can run as high as $15,000, according to Angi’s cost data. That gap, roughly 33 times the price of the inspection itself, is the entire story of why a hairline crack a homeowner never sees … Read more
The American Academy of Pediatrics has quietly dropped the number that shaped a generation of parenting arguments: the recommended daily screen-time limit. In updated digital-media guidance, the organization tells families to stop counting minutes and start paying attention to what kids are watching, who they’re watching it with, and why a screen is in front … Read more
Conair LLC has expanded its recall of Cuisinart-branded wire grill brushes to roughly 3.6 million units, adding about 1.9 million brushes to a recall that started this past July, after more reports of metal bristles breaking off and turning up in people’s food. The brushes were sold nationwide at Walmart, Burlington, TJ Maxx, Ross, Amazon … Read more
Denver Water’s board has approved an indefinite ban on lawn-irrigation sprinklers starting October 1, 2026, a hard cutoff affecting roughly 1.5 million customers after the metro area recorded its hottest year on record and reservoirs fell to 72% capacity. Water officials say the decision, reported by the Colorado Sun, is a warning sign every homeowner … Read more
At least one person is dead, nearly 200,000 homes and businesses lost power, and more than 100 homes were damaged or destroyed after Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm and tore across Hawaii’s Big Island on August 16, 2026, according to CNN. Rural residents are now being told power in some areas may not … Read more