Sayre Brennan Real Estate

08/08/2026

07/29/2026

Matt Seaton, a former senior editor at The Atlantic, quit his job and became a part-time waller after discovering his passion for building walls. He explores the importance of this new profession for himself—and society: https://theatln.tc/F99Jxh8x

Seaton’s main employ now is on a property that was bought in the 1890s by a New York manufacturer and turned into a model farm with a mansion. “I don’t for a minute feel that, after some 30 years as a writer and an editor, I have abandoned the life of the intellect,” he writes. “Building a wall that looks good and won’t soon fall down involves plenty of hand work, for sure, but it is also a knowledge game.”

“When I leave my desk to spend an afternoon outside, I’m doing much the same work—just manipulating stones instead of words,” Seaton writes. “I’m bringing sense to a random pile of rocks. I’m striving for coherence in the structural integrity and pleasing appearance not of an essay but of a double-faced, flat-capped wall.”

“Building a wall may even be its own kind of narrative project—a peculiarly linear one,” Seaton continues. “Each element falls into place, and the sum becomes greater than its parts. That’s on a good day, when the stone that comes to hand finds its rightful place, almost without conscious thought, like a mot juste in a well-turned phrase. I am not a puzzle person, but one reward of walling is the continuous process of problem-solving in three-dimensional space. At first, it looks like nothing; then, all of a sudden, it looks like a wall.”

“Given time enough, gravity will return those rocks to their long sleep in the loam,” Seaton continues at the link. “Ice will split them; rain will wear them. Sometimes I pry up a slab of schist that’s lain in the ground only a few years, and it shears into new, more delicate planes as it comes. Whatever we build will one day come to dust. Yet we build. Because it’s also in us to make something handsome to behold.”

📸: Kelly Burgess

07/27/2026

A new report from Coldwell Banker Global Luxury identifies "landmaxxing" as one of the fastest-growing trends in ultra-luxury real estate, with wealthy buyers increasingly purchasing neighboring properties to expand estates, preserve views, and create private compounds. The brokerage's 2026 Mid-Year Report found searches for land rose 97 percent year over year, while searches for one-of-a-kind properties climbed 146 percent. The trend has been embraced by billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Ken Griffin, Larry Ellison, and David MacNeil, particularly in land-constrained markets such as South Florida, where adjacent properties are increasingly commanding a premium.

07/13/2026

Congress just passed one of the most significant housing bills in decades, and now lawmakers are eyeing a capital gains tax cut that could let individual home sellers keep up to $500K in profits tax-free, and up to $1 million for joint filers.

06/19/2026

A record 25.2 million adults under 35 lived with their parents in 2025, surpassing even pandemic-era levels, and roughly 70% of them had jobs. The finding challenges the common assumption that young adults living at home are simply struggling to find work. Instead, the data points to a deeper affordability problem, with the median home price hitting $430,000 in 2025, up 34.4% from 2019, and the median asking rent climbing to $1,673.

05/29/2026

Starting in exactly one week from today, you'll be able to ride the most technologically advanced trains in the U.S., 🚆 right here in Atlanta! Learn more 👉 bit.ly/new-marta-trains

📸: MARTA

05/17/2026

Your regular reminder that the world's most famous cycling city could have gone a very different way. Post-war Amsterdam prioritized more cars and new freeways, following the same playbook as many North American cities. By the 1970s cycling modal share was just a fraction of daily trips. The lesson isn't that some cities are naturally just "better suited" to cycling, it's that change is possible, and doesn't happen by accident.

Photo source: Brent Toderian

05/14/2026

Sprawling counties may have lower housing costs. But they're eclipsed by high transportation and energy costs, a new study finds. Read more: bloom.bg/3R8XYkj

📷️: Getty Images

05/04/2026

According to a new report from the American Economic Liberties Project, no metropolitan area in the country has more sin