Sydney Lake

Sydney Lake

Sydney Lake is an associate editor at Fortune, where she writes and edits news for the publication's global news desk. At Fortune, she previously wrote about real estate, housing, and higher education. Before joining Fortune, Sydney served as the assistant editor of Virginia Business magazine and interned on the production desk at CQ Roll Call. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and leadership studies from the University of Richmond and her master's degree in digital media management from the University of Southern California.

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MIAMI, FLORIDA – JANUARY 24: A worker stocks the shelves at a Walmart store on January 24, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Walmart<br />
announced that it is raising its minimum wage for store employees in early March, store employees will make between $14 and $19 an hour. They currently earn between $12 and $18 an hour. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Walmart is replacing its price labels with digital screens—but the company swears it won’t use it for surge pricing

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A model home sitting on a large stack of bills

Selling a home is expensive too: Homeowners spend $55,000 on average to sell their properties

Photo of Marvin Ellison

Lowe’s CEO went from earning $4.35 an hour at Target to being one of only 8 Black Fortune 500 CEOs with this strategy

Daniel Radcliffe, wins the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the 77th Annual Tony Awards held at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on June 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)

Daniel Radcliffe made $110 million as a child star—and now he’s defying the negative stereotypes at 34

A young woman opening a gift at her bridal shower

Brides and grooms are cracking down on wedding guests and publicly shaming those who don’t comply with their gift registries and dress codes

commercial real estate bargain hunters are snagging space for steep discounts up to 70% off.

Commercial real estate bargain hunters are snagging offices for ‘extreme’ discounts up to 70%

YIMBY towns are where homeowners and government officials alike champion the idea of new construction—saying “yes, in my backyard.”

Building more housing is a top priority in these 10 YIMBY cities, Pacaso says

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Real estate house money mortgage debt investment

Homeowners are shelling out nearly $20,000 in hidden fees annually—’the same level as buying a used car every year’

Contactless Payments Are Safe, Secure, and Increase Customer Satisfaction. Chinese young female customer touching a credit card on reader machine to checkout at cashier counter of a retail store.

Baby boomers’ favorite credit card Amex is now the ‘lifestyle’ card of choice for Gen Zers

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – MAY 6: Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X Holdings Corp., speaks at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. The 27th annual global conference explores various topics, from the rise of generative AI to electric vehicle trends and features participants, soccer star David Beckham and actor Ashton Kutcher. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

Elon Musk could bring home $56 billion after a historic pay vote. His compensation completely dwarfs the biggest paydays in corporate America

Frustrated couple checking bills at home using laptop

Zero percent down mortgages might help more first-time homebuyers break into the housing market—but there are caveats

By Alena Botros and Sydney Lake

Postal workers outside a Royal Mail delivery office in London, UK, on Thursday, May 18, 2023. International Distributions Services Plc, which owns the UK Royal Mail postal service, reported an operating loss of £1 billion ($1.25 billion) after the beleaguered delivery service endured a long dispute with a trade union. Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A 500-year-old postal service that lost $450m last year has been bought by a Czech billionaire—it’s ‘as British as it gets’ and customers are worried it signals the end of an era

By The Associated Press and Sydney Lake

Beautiful young Caucasian woman moving into her new home and starting a new life, taking a break with the unpacking to finish some business first, using a laptop and a smart phone, feeling tiered and bored

These are the 9 most rent-burdened cities in the U.S. where tenants spend more than one-third of their income on housing, Moody’s says

Man in beauty clinic receiving intravenous nutrition therapy for healthy immune system and skin

Entering the ‘amenities arms race’ at luxury apartments: IV drips and Botox without having to leave your home

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A house on a blue background has many for sale signs laying around in front of it.

There’s a way to land sub-4% mortgage rates for buyers locked out of the housing market. But they’ve been hard to get—until now