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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Young woman drinking tea while playing with her dog at home

Renters care more about having a pet-friendly apartment than a washing machine, Zillow and Bark study shows

Janet Yellen

‘Almost impossible’: Janet Yellen despairs at housing market’s one-two punch for first-time buyers

Miami

Study finding South Florida homes are 35% overvalued sparks bubble worries: ‘This trend does concern me’

Perrier mineral water

Pennsylvania vs. Perrier: Your beloved mineral water is actually a soda, court rules

Young people toasting one another with Champagne

Millennials have it better than everyone thinks, accumulating wealth faster than anyone else since the pandemic, new data shows

woman holding baby

The economy is moving us back into the 19th century as fertility rates plunge

aerial Florida housing view

Now might be the time to move to Florida as inventory levels surge and sellers slash prices

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West

Luxury home prices have gotten so unwieldy that Ye, formerly Kanye West, had to slash the price of his Malibu mansion by around $14 million

The prisoner in jail

Former HGTV star slapped with $10 million fine and jail time for real estate fraud

Sumit Singh, CEO of Chewy

Meet the CEO who makes your dog-food delivery feel like visiting a Disney resort

builders walking through construction site

High mortgage rates are finally hitting new home construction as builders are pulling back on projects

Bill Gates

Bill Gates unloaded one of his properties in less than two weeks on the market—and it only cost $5 million

A nice looking strip mall

Tired: Office conversions to residential. Wired: Turning dead malls and suburban shopping strips into apartments

By Irina Ivanova and Sydney Lake

Home buyers shaking hands with realtor

Nearly 30% of recent homebuyers have zero clue how much their realtor is paid—and a lot of people don’t know where that money came from

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

The Trump donor whom Biden can’t fire is running the U.S. Postal Service directly into the ground—just what everyone warned about when he was confirmed during the pandemic