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Sydney Lake

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.

Kate Middleton

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 16, 2024

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

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

By Alena Botros, Chloe Berger and Sydney LakeMarch 16, 2024

Dissolving home

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 14, 2024

Joe Biden

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 13, 2024

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

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 13, 2024

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

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 IvanovaMarch 11, 2024

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

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 9, 2024

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 5, 2024

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 5, 2024

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

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 5, 2024

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

By Sydney LakeMarch 2, 2024

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 BotrosFebruary 29, 2024

Office buildings with red down arrows

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

By Sydney LakeFebruary 28, 2024

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

By Sydney LakeFebruary 27, 2024

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

By Sydney LakeFebruary 24, 2024

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