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Sydney Lake is an associate editor at Fortune, where she writes and edits news for the publication's global news desk covering generational dynamics, billionaire philanthropy, housing, real estate, luxury, and wealth. Before joining Fortune, Sydney served as the assistant editor of Virginia Business magazine and worked 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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Finance
About $929 billion commercial mortgages will mature this year—and it’s just another sign of the impending commercial real estate downfall
By Sydney LakeFebruary 13, 2024
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Success
Despite all their anti-capitalist talk, Gen Z is addicted to celebrity—they’re more likely to purchase from brands they think are ‘cool’
By Sydney LakeFebruary 12, 2024
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Finance
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
By Sydney LakeFebruary 9, 2024
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Tech
A top exec at Kim Kardashian’s new private equity fund once made it her mission to persuade Apple’s Tim Cook not to hire her. It didn’t work
By Sydney LakeFebruary 9, 2024
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Finance
Meet Zillow rooms for rent: A Craigslist killer for the millennial and Gen Z set—and a symbol of the housing affordability crisis
By Sydney LakeFebruary 8, 2024
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Finance
Janet Yellen is ‘concerned’ and sees a ‘lot of stress’ ahead for commercial real estate as wave of giant loans come due this year
By Sydney LakeFebruary 7, 2024
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Finance
‘A problem we’ll be working on for years’: Fed chair Jerome Powell says commercial real estate’s impact on banking has just begun 
By Sydney LakeFebruary 6, 2024
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Politics
Texas lawmaker who opposes giving $500 per month to 1,900 Houstonians sponsored a bill to save every homeowner $1,300 a year
By Sydney LakeFebruary 5, 2024
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Finance
Why is rent still so high, a year after experts told us it was going to fall?
By Irina Ivanova and Sydney LakeFebruary 3, 2024
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Finance
Housing inequality: Black homeowners won’t catch up at this rate for over 300 years. But they could with a $1.7 trillion affordable housing plan, McKinsey says
By Sydney LakeFebruary 2, 2024
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Finance
You have to be ‘wealthy or lucky’ to buy a home in this housing market, says top economist Ali Wolf
By Sydney LakeJanuary 31, 2024
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Finance
‘Buying a home is not even remotely possible‘ for many Americans, says Moody’s chief economist
By Sydney LakeJanuary 29, 2024
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Finance
‘This Old House’ just took a look at the American Dream of homeownership, and sees ‘evident desperation’ among homebuyers
By Sydney LakeJanuary 28, 2024
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Finance
Zillow just raised its home price forecast, seeing a 3.7% jump in 2024, and it’s all because of ‘external factors’
By Sydney LakeJanuary 25, 2024
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Finance
The housing market is in its worst slump since 1995. NAR says the ‘world was much different’ then—here’s how
By Sydney LakeJanuary 24, 2024
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