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Prices in the for-sale housing market are showing no signs of cooling off, causing more renters to stay on the buying sidelines. And as rents start to heat back up, too, more tenants are relocating to cheaper markets.
Buffalo, New York; Chicago; and Houston are seeing the biggest growth in out-of-town searches on Zillow, followed by New Orleans and Dallas, according to the real estate listing site. Among markets that have already seen significant in-migration, like Salt Lake City; Raleigh, North Carolina; Hartford, Connecticut; and Nashville, Tennessee; out-of-town searches now outnumber local searches, Zillow found.
Rental demand is typically a leading indicator of home sales.
"Renting is often how people try out a new community before committing. When we see a market with a growing share of rental searches coming from outside the metro, that tips us off to a developing pipeline," said Mischa Fisher, chief economist at Zillow, in a release. "A year-over-year surge in out-of-town browsing in places like Buffalo and Chicago tells us a wave of newcomers may not be far behind."
The markets seeing the biggest renter interest also have lower home prices. The national median price of an existing home sold in July was $434,100, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Buffalo, Chicago and Houston all have lower median prices, according to Realtor.com.
Rents had been easing over the past few years due to increased supply in most markets, but they are now back on the rise. August rents turned positive month to month for the first time in four years, according to Apartment List, but they were still slightly lower than August 2025.
While most out-of-town rental searches on Zillow come from neighboring states, the one exception is New York City. Renters there continue to look for listings in the Sunbelt, making up large shares of views in Raleigh and in the Florida cities of Miami, Orlando and Tampa, according to Zillow.
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"When we see strong out-of-town interest flowing into a smaller market, it's often an affordability story. So renters in pricier places are choosing or discovering that they can get a lot more for their money somewhere new," said Fisher. "When the flow goes the other direction, into a major metro, it's frequently regional pull, people drawn to a big city's job market or opportunities from nearby."
Despite huge migration to the South during and after the pandemic, these markets remain more affordable than the East and West coasts, so the flow continues. Both lifestyle and affordability are playing into the decision.
In fact, 37 of the top 50 cities listed in RentCafe's "Best Cities for Renters" are in the South. The top three cities are McKinney, Texas; Huntsville, Alabama; and Austin, Texas. This ranking factors in cost of living, renter income growth and employment growth, among other things. %!s()
Razer had a bountiful display of products to show at Gamescom 2026, many of which come with substantial price tags. However, my eyes lit up when I saw the new Razer Reclusa X Mini 65% keyboard, especially as it's got a $50/£60 MSRP.
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I picked it up and twisted it around in my hands, expecting it to bend like a piece of cardboard thanks to some budget materials. Nope, it seems like a very solidly-built device—which is pretty impressive given the affordable price tag.
The doubleshot ABS keycaps, in combination with Razer's Gen-3 orange tactile switches, feel downright high-end. It makes a good noise, too, producing the sort of weighty thock I normally associate with much more expensive keebs. I've used enough $50 boards to know that you usually don't get a whole lot for your cash, but this one feels like a proper enthusiast offering—even if it does come in a shrunken 65% form factor.
The switches are hot-swappable, with both 3-pin and 5-pin models supported. The orange ones it comes with are designed to deliver a "crisp, satisfying tactile bump without the click," according to the press release, and I can confirm this to be true.
I hate overly-clicky tactile switches, but these are rather nice. They're specced out with a 3.5 mm travel distance and 50 g of actuation force, which combines with the keycaps to make for a satisfying typing experience. At least, for the brief time I got to play with it. It was torn from my hands eventually, as there were more RGB-lit sights to see. Shame.
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The Reclusa X Mini 65% also supports Snap Tap, Razer's version of the somewhat-controversial SOCD tech, which uses the most recent input when two keys are pressed for faster counter strafing. It also supports Snap Flex, which can be used to bind two key inputs into a single press. Nothing revolutionary there, but it's probably enough to keep the competitive gaming crowd interested.
That being said, as someone that primarily likes a good keyboard for its feel underneath my fingertips, not necessarily for its esports-like credentials, I'm more interested in the build quality combined with the price tag.
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As PC component costs skyrocket, any cash you can save on decent peripherals means more in the kitty for your next graphics card. And while the market is full of well-priced gaming keyboards, a lot of them are pretty uninspiring affairs. This one? I've got high hopes.
A review sample is winging its way to PC Gamer Towers as we speak, so I'll give it a proper test once it's arrived. In the meantime, enjoy some of the pretty pictures I took above. Everyone loves a good-looking keeb for reasonable cash, right?
Andy built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 12, when IDE cables were a thing and high resolution wasn't. 26 years later (yes he's getting old), he now spends his days writing about and reviewing graphics cards, CPUs, keyboards, mice, gaming headsets and much, much more. You name it, if it's PC gaming hardware he'll write words about it, with opinions and everything. %!s()
Have a conversation with any producer working in Hollywood and it won’t be long until you hear about the challenges they face making movies and TV shows in today’s marketplace. Here comes Producers365 that will help support them in a community of people who know the path.
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Hollywood Ventures Group — the diversified film production outfit and consultancy founded by Glenn Gainor and Sandy Climan in summer 2025 as a firm designed to meet the current moment in global filmmaking — launched the entity as a way to connect the people, projects and resources behind production worldwide. It is acting as a support system for films series and other storytelling platforms including location-based entertainment and interactive media.
The Producers365 platform is now live with membership applications open. It functions more than a social network or message board, and is designed in such a way that members can connect, share resources, perhaps partner on projects or suggest options for things like co-production partners and resources or simply help one another advance projects.
In addition to the platform unveiling, HVG has confirmed a strategic partnership with First-Look, a platform founded by scribes and producers Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring franchise). Under the pact, the platform will offer writers the opportunity to get projects in front of verified buyers actively looking for material without representation. In doing so, it will host a “digital script vault” integrated with First-Look’s platform.
Other Producers365 highlights: industry updates and member announcements from Producers365 leadership; a curated feed of real-world industry events, gatherings and opportunities happening across the globe; a curated directory of trusted vendors and industry partners; a reference library of global production incentives and co-production treaties supporting cross-border production and collaboration; financing, co-production, distribution and rights opportunities tied to member projects; and more.
“The traditional mechanics of film finance and co-production still rely heavily on event-driven gatherings and fragmented messaging channels that go stale between markets,” explained Gainor, who is serving as co-founder and CEO of both Producers365 and HVG. He knows the terrain well after having served as head of physical production at Amazon MGM Studios and Screen Gems, and as co-founder and president of Sony Innovation Studios. “Producers365 is designed to change that by creating a trusted, members-only producing network where creators can find international partners, access financing resources, protect their intellectual property and move projects forward every day of the year.”
Added Climan, co-founder of Producers365 and HVG chairman: “As the media landscape rapidly shifts toward global financing and decentralized workflows, producers need a platform that matches where the industry is going.” Before his current role, Climan held senior executive roles at MGM, CAA and Universal Studios, and more than 25 years as founder and CEO of Entertainment Media Ventures.
Carey Hayes explained why his company is on board: “Every great film begins with a great script, but too many extraordinary stories never see the light of day,. Partnering with Producers365 gives writers a secure, verified portal to safeguard their IP while giving producers direct access to a transparent, rated pipeline of material ready for global financing and production.”
The growing membership includes companies, too, like photo powerhouse Getty Images. The company provides licensing capabilities, rights management expertise and collections of archival, editorial and creative stills and video that will help support productions around the world.
“The industry has shifted, and reaching audiences and collaborators worldwide has become abundantly important. As a production company and financier, we are increasingly focused on the international landscape. From a creative standpoint, having access to stories, creators, and collaborators from every corner of the world is not only important but indispensable,” explained Jayce Barreiro, president of Big Picture Cinema Group.
Added Aaron Parsons, co-founder and chief technology officer at Producers365: “Glenn once told me, ‘You can’t force success; you have to let the market pull you in.’ That idea has stayed with me. We’re not building technology to disrupt the industry. We’re using it to bring human connection, credit and ownership to the people who make things happen.”
To celebrate the rollout, Producers365 and HVG insiders will gather at the third annual Big Picture event in Toronto on Sept. 12, a date that coincides with this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. %!s()
The United Kingdom has announced a ban on the import of all goods produced by illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in the country’s most significant policy since London’s historic recognition of Palestinian statehood last year.
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In a speech to Parliament, UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accused Israel of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in Palestine and affirmed that it is official UK policy that the Israeli settlements rapidly expanding across the occupied West Bank are “unlawful”.
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He said he did not believe “the British people want us supporting the occupation by accepting products from settlements in our shops”.
Miliband also announced tougher new restrictions on arms sales to Israel.
Israel announced four “counter measures”, including banning 12 British MPs from entering Israel and closing the British consulate in Jerusalem, following his speech.
The UK’s trade ban on goods from illegal settlements comes amid an intensifying wave of Israeli settler pogroms on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank and controversial settlement expansions that have prompted a UK-led debate on Europe-wide trade restrictions.
After Miliband’s speech, 12 countries shared a joint statement supporting the two-state solution and announcing their own intentions to impose restrictions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
France, the UK, Canada, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Sweden called on the Israeli government to immediately halt the expansion of settlements.
Here’s what we know.
What did Miliband say in Parliament?
Ahead of Tuesday’s announcement, Miliband said new trading bans and sanctions would represent a “comprehensive reset” of the UK’s policy on Israel, amounting to an approach that “not only calls out the injustice [in Palestine], but acts”.
However, he added: “The sanctions regime will target illegal settlements and settlement expansion, not Israel.”
“I can also announce that we’re extending the existing global human rights regime such that it will enable swifter action to deter settlement expansion, including crucially seeking to prevent the development of E1,” Miliband added. E1, a proposed settlement in the West Bank, would divide the Palestinian territory in two and put an end to hopes for a two-state solution, he said.
In support of Israel, Miliband also announced new sanctions against the financing arm of the Lebanese group Hezbollah – Al-Qard al-Hasan – and said the UK will reimpose sanctions on Iran, in line with those imposed by the European Union and United States.
However, he said the UK government “agrees” that settler violence in areas of the West Bank amounts to ethnic cleansing and labelled those carrying it out as “settler terrorists”. He accused the Israeli government of turning a blind eye to the violence and intimidation of Palestinians.
Miliband reaffirmed the UK’s commitment to a two-state solution for Palestine and sharply criticised the rhetoric of Israeli politicians, such as Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, who have called for an end to any notion of a Palestinian state.
Miliband, who is himself Jewish, said the UK government will take a tougher approach towards rising anti-Semitism in the UK. He emphasised that measures by the UK government are being taken against the government of Israel, not the Israeli people, and that targeting Jewish people in the UK for the acts of the Israeli government is “anti-Semitism, pure and simple”.
Britain is a country “that upholds its values at home and around the world, a Britain that fights against oppression and suffering wherever it occurs, a Britain that stands up for what is right”, he said.
(Al Jazeera)
What is being banned?
The UK ban on trading with illegal Israeli settlements covers the following:
A ban on the import of all goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Sanctions on all organisations, businesses and individuals providing construction, infrastructure, financing or real estate for settlement expansion.
A total ban on advertising in the UK for the sale of properties in illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Sanctions against extremist settlers who have supported or incited violence against Palestinians.
All new export licences for weapons and other exports which “materially contribute to the occupation” will be refused. The UK has already suspended more than 30 arms licences used by the Israeli army in Gaza, he added. The ban on such exports will remain in place as long as the occupation persists, Miliband said.
Exempted goods are:
Products and services from Israel itself.
How much does the UK trade with settlements?
The UK is an important trading partner for Israel as a whole.
Trade between the UK and Israel totalled 6 billion pounds ($8.1bn) in 2025, according to the House of Commons. While it is difficult to estimate exactly how much of this is from goods produced by settlements, an estimated 38 million pounds ($51.4m) worth of goods was imported from the occupied territory in 2025, Parliament records show.
Precious stones and metals, technical and medical equipment, plastics, machinery and fresh produce including fruit are the major goods imported from Israel. In return, the UK exports, among other things, defence equipment including drones, helicopters and aircraft components.
In 2024, the UK suspended about 30 arms export licences due to Israel’s actions in Gaza. However, exemptions were made for F-35 combat aircraft components, which Israel can access via other partners like the US.
The UK has long tried to distinguish between goods imported from Israel and those from settlements, which do not receive preferential tariffs under a free trade agreement.
To claim preferential tariffs, importers are required to provide UK customs with documentation showing where their goods are manufactured in Israel, and to demonstrate they were not produced in a “location within the territories brought under Israeli administration since June 1967”.
Guidelines were also introduced outlining how products originating from Israeli settlements should be labelled before entering the UK, although concerns have been raised about goods produced in occupied Palestinian territory being mislabelled as “produced in Israel”.
In May 2025, the UK suspended negotiations to modernise the trade agreement to cover digital trade and other areas.
Does this mean the UK is removing support for Israel?
No. In his speech to Parliament, Miliband took pains to emphasise that these measures are not being taken against the Israeli people, with whom the British people have “unshakable bonds”.
“Our argument” is not with the people of Israel, but with the “conduct of its government”, he said. “I wholeheartedly oppose the boycott divestment sanctions, or BDS, campaign,” he added.
He said the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 demonstrated the grave threats that Israel faces, and announced that the UK is also implementing new sanctions against the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as reimposing sanctions on Iran in line with those of the EU and the US.
To “those who question Israel’s right to exist”, he said: “You are wrong, and we will call you out.”
He added that Hamas must decommission its weapons and dismantle its “terrorist infrastructure” in Gaza. “Hamas can play no role in the future governance of Gaza.”
The foreign secretary said Israel has the right to live without fear.
Miliband said he is “proud” of his own Jewishness and added that his support for the state of Israel is not a “contradiction” of his support for Palestine.
How has Israel responded?
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has announced counter measures against the UK.
Israel is closing the British Consulate in Jerusalem.
UK representatives will be removed from the International Gaza Support Center in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel.
British training of Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank will be terminated.
Twelve British MPs are banned from entering Israel.
Saar accused the UK government of trying to interfere in Israel’s October election by making this announcement so close to the polls.
He added that the Israeli public is overwhelmingly opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state “in the heart of our land”.
On Tuesday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise Argentina’s sovereignty over the Falklands, an overseas UK territory that Argentina claims, in retaliation.
Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, called for the expulsion of the British ambassador.
How has the US responded?
Burnham spoke with President Donald Trump in a phone call on Monday and stressed the importance of a two-state solution, UK media reported. Trump has, however, not commented on the new ban.
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has not minced words, however. Over the weekend, he accused the UK government of “Jew hate”. He described any plan for sanctions or trading bans as “discrimination against the Jewish people”.
“I don’t know if [the British government is] really aware of the implications and how it’s going to affect Brits,” he told the UK’s BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Tuesday.
Huckabee claimed that 25 percent of pharmaceuticals in the UK are produced in Israel and that British businesses in the US could face “great damage” in the case of a US reprisal.
Ahead of Miliband’s announcement, Florida Republican congressman Randy Fine warned that UK companies could be barred from Florida and accused the UK of carrying out a “vanity project in support of Muslim terror”.
On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: “We think it has implications on our ability to make progress with regards to Gaza, on the 20-point plan and the Board of Peace that we’re very committed to. Obviously we’re not going to do what the UK did.”
What other response has there been?
Palestine’s Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said the UK’s decision to impose sanctions and a trading ban was “long overdue” but represented a “turning point in UK-Palestine relations”.
“Today, Britain begins to move from condemnation to consequences, from words to action,” he wrote on X.
Human rights groups have also welcomed the move.
Human Rights Watch said the import ban and sanctions were a “long-awaited and positive change in Britain’s policy”.
Amnesty International UK said the new measures could be “the sea change that is needed”.
However, following Miliband’s address in parliament, the Jewish Leadership Council, which represents Jewish organisations in Britain, accused the government of placing an “increased target on British Jews”.
The council said the move was “deeply irresponsible” and claimed that the government was “yielding to pressure from the most extreme elements of British society”.
The UK’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said it was a “truly a dark day for British Jews” and warned that they would be at greater risk of extremist attacks as a result.
“Today our government has chosen to ignore the deep concerns expressed by so many of us,” he wrote on X. “These measures will succeed only in bolstering the very extremism they seek to target.”
Does the ban go far enough?
Under former prime minister Keir Starmer, the UK’s Labour Party was strongly criticised for failing to take action over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the pogroms against Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank. This was an issue that the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, pledged to correct when he took over as leader.
But the ban on Israeli settlement products represents less than 1 percent of UK-Israel trade.
Zena Agha, interim director of the British Palestinian Committee, which advocates for Palestinian rights in the UK, told Al Jazeera the move is a “bare minimum”.
“These are measures we would expect any government to take in accordance with the international legal framework to which it subscribes. So it shouldn’t be celebrated in that regard. Nevertheless, it is something which the previous administration didn’t do, and so it should be welcomed.”
Advocates say the ban’s proper implementation is crucial.
Chris Doyle of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, which has long lobbied for a trade ban with Israel, said it is important to ensure products from settlements are not misleadingly labelled as being from Israel. He also called for a ban on all investments and financial services in the settlements.
“Trading with these settlements should never have been allowed in the first place, built as they are in occupied territory, on the land and resources of Palestinians,” Doyle said.
“I think what we are seeing here is, for the first time, Britain is taking significant action against illegal settlements. It’s long overdue. We’ve heard previous prime ministers from Thatcher to Blair to Cameron all saying settlements are illegal and an obstacle to peace, but they did nothing … It should act as encouragement for other European actors to do the same … Collectively this will make a difference as the EU is Israel’s largest trading partner.”
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The musician will celebrate his landmark 1976 album on a fall trek that will hit the U.S. in November and December
Stevie Wonder will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his classic album Songs in the Key of Life with a world tour this fall.
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Wonder will perform the album in its entirety at each show — an ambitious endeavor for a double LP with 17 tracks and a nearly 90-minute run time. (It’s unclear if Wonder will also play the four additional songs from the A Something’s Extra EP released with the original album.)
The tour will start with a U.K. and European run that kicks off Oct. 13 in Birmingham, England, and wraps Nov. 11 in Glasgow. A short U.S. tour will follow, starting Nov. 19 at Madison Square Garden in New York City and ending Dec. 19 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. In between, Wonder will play shows in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Detroit.
Tickets for most of the U.S. gigs on the Songs in the Key of Lifetourwill go on sale Sept. 10 at 10 a.m.; only tickets for the Detroit shows will go on sale Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. local time. Full information is available on Wonder’s website and Ticketmaster.com.
Released Sept. 28, 1976, Songs in the Key of Life capped off an already remarkable run of albums that included other classics like 1972’s Talking Book and 1973’s Innervisions. Though one of the biggest stars on the planet at the time, before Wonder made Songs in the Key of Life, he was close to quitting the music industry and dedicating himself to humanitarian efforts in Africa. He changed his plans after inking a new contract with Motown that was both financially lucrative and gave him complete creative control.
In a Classic Albums documentary about Songs in the Key of Life, Wonder said, “I challenged myself [to write] as many different things as I could, to cover as many topics as I could, in dealing with the title and representing what it was about. The title would give me a challenge, but equally as important as a challenge it would give me an opportunity to express my feelings as a songwriter and as an artist.”
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Songs in the Key of Life was a commercial and critical smash upon release, reaching Number One on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, earning Diamond certification from the RIAA, and winning Album of the Year at the Grammys. It spawned two Number One hits, “I Wish” and “Sir Duke,” and contained plenty more enduring Wonder songs, like “Isn’t She Lovely,” “Pastime Paradise,” “Black Man,” and “Knocks Me Off My Feet.” Over the years, Songs in the Key of Life has remained one of the most revered albums in Wonder’s catalog and pop history, landing at Number Four on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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Oct. 13 – Birmingham, England @ Utilita Arena Oct. 15 – Paris @ Accor Arena Oct. 18 – Copenhagen @ Royal Arena Oct. 20 – Oslo @ Unity Arena Oct. 22 – Stockholm @ 3Arena Oct. 24 – Hannover, Germany @ ZAG-Arena Oct. 26 – Cologne, Germany @ Lanxess Arena Oct. 28 – Amsterdam @ Ziggo Dome Nov. 1 – Dublin @ 3Arena Nov. 3 – London @ The O2 Nov. 8 – Manchester @ Co-op Live Nov. 11 – Glasgow @ OVO Hydro Nov. 19 – New York City @ Madison Square Garden Nov. 21 – Chicago @ United Center Nov. 23 – Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Arena Dec. 8 – Detroit @ Fox Theatre Dec. 9 – Detroit @ Fox Theatre Dec. 19 – Los Angeles @ Intuit Dome %!s()
