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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Man holding umbrella with down arrows raining down

Real-estate agents are going extinct just like travel agents did, award-winning professor says. ‘You just don’t need’ them anymore because of the internet

Customer carrying Olive Garden to-go bag

Olive Garden’s earnings just pulled back the curtain on the economy: The rich are dining out while the poor are falling back

Priscilla Almodovar, CEO of Fannie Mae

‘The American Dream is still very much alive,’ Fannie Mae CEO insists—and she has essential advice for first-time homebuyers

ASCOT, UNITED KINGDOM – JUNE 23: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 24 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Catherine, Princess of Wales and Prince William, Prince of Wales attend day four of Royal Ascot 2023 at Ascot Racecourse on June 23, 2023 in Ascot, England. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

‘Never complain, never explain’: The British royal family’s longtime mantra is backfiring with the Kate Middleton debacle

Couple standing outside of house they just bought

Housing is so unaffordable in major cities that millennials are moving back to the suburbs, Harvard study finds

Man stressed waiting for train

‘Folks don’t live near the office anymore’: Remote work guru Nick Bloom gets real on why RTO is so hard

Kate Middleton

Distrust over the Kate Middleton saga threatens the royal family’s $28 billion business empire

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Collapsing house of cards

Homeowners are red, renters are blue: The broken housing market is merging with America’s polarized political culture

By Alena Botros, Chloe Berger, and others

Dissolving home

The uninsurable housing market: 26% of homeowners worry climate change will put them underwater either literally or figuratively

Joe Biden

Joe Biden is admitting that nobody wants to sell their house—and it’s offering an incentive to fix it

SANDRINGHAM, NORFOLK – SEPTEMBER 15: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 24 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Catherine, Princess of Wales views floral tributes left at the entrance to Sandringham House, the Norfolk estate of Queen Elizabeth II, on September 15, 2022 in Sandringham, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales are visiting Sandringham to view tributes to Queen Elizabeth II, who died at Balmoral Castle on September 8, 2022. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

First Princess Kate, tomorrow the world: How one botched photoshop opened a Pandora’s Box of ‘the wider public doubting what they see’

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Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months.
Wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day. C
📸 The Prince of Wales, 2024

Kate Middleton’s Photoshopped family photo and the glaring errors that led to kill notices: ‘Think of it as a Cat. 5 cyclone’

By Sydney Lake and Irina Ivanova

Seifi Ghasemi, CEO of Air Products

This 79-year-old CEO is so passionate about the hydrogen-energy revolution that he hasn’t taken a vacation in 20 years

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been mysteriously buying huge swaths of land in Hawaii—now we know why

Gary Shilling

Top economist Gary Shilling predicts a ‘considerable revival’ in housing activity—but it’s going to take 3 or 4 years to unfreeze the housing market