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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Aerial view of houses, hotels, buildings, boats, marina, Indian Creek in South Beach Miami Florida on a beautiful sunny day, United States of America

Miami-Dade is the latest county to go into debt to try to do what its private sector won’t: Build houses

House on top of stack of money

Buying a house has gotten so expensive that homebuyers need to make about $50,000 more than they did pre-pandemic to afford one

Row of homes

9 million homes will come on the market in the next decade as baby boomers age—but the ‘silver tsunami’ will be more of a ‘tide,’ Freddie Mac says

By Sydney Lake and Alena Botros

Office buildings with red down arrows

Goldman says office buildings need a 50% price drop for residential conversion to be a real thing

Couple looking at a condo in Florida

Florida homeowners have no choice but to lower condo prices as insurance and HOA fees ‘skyrocket,’ Redfin says

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 16: Founder of Spanx Sara Blakely speaks onstage at the FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit on October 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for FORTUNE)

Spanx founder Sara Blakely’s $1 billion idea started with just $5,000 in savings and wanting to solve her own problem

colorful row homes in dc

Million-dollar homes are swallowing D.C.’s housing market as a whopping 20% of listings are out of reach for most people

Michael Dell

Michael Dell founded his $102 billion company—once the world’s largest PC maker—as a 19-year-old in his college dorm. Here’s his secret to actually making it big

line of houses topped with down arrows with green background

Say goodbye to the peak of home price appreciation, Fortune 500 chief economist says—it’s behind us

Displeased senior manager is blaming his team for bad results at a meeting in a boardroom.

The bigger the age gap between managers and employees, the less productive they are, report shows

Person dressed in Pop-Tart costume

From a 16-year-old truck washer to the inventor of the Pop Tart: William Post dies at 96, leaving great wealth and a legacy of snack innovation behind

By Sydney Lake and Sasha Rogelberg

Group of millennials drinking champagne

‘Fake it until you make it’: Millennials are obsessed with looking rich, Wells Fargo study shows

Illustration shows commercial real estate buildings and the outline of an arrow pointing down

About $929 billion commercial mortgages will mature this year—and it’s just another sign of the impending commercial real estate downfall

Young man looking at his phone

Despite all their anti-capitalist talk, Gen Z is addicted to celebrity—they’re more likely to purchase from brands they think are ‘cool’

Three Gen Z women walking through New York City

Gen Z’s thirst for the NYC lifestyle drives vacancy rates to the historic low of 1.4%—unseen since the ‘Mad Men’ era of 1968