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Affordable Housing Solution: Live in the Waldorf for $226 a Month
jarnogz/iStock At least two men have come up with a viable solution to the New York City affordable housing crisis: live at a swanky hotel, for a couple of hundred bucks a month. “Two cabbies used an...
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Will El Nino Rain on California’s Real Estate Parade?
Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Summer may be waning, but the Pacific Ocean is just starting to heat up. And with that warming water comes El Niño, the dangerous and sometimes disastrous series of...
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The Secrets of Stunning Ranch House Renovations
houzz.com Restored or renovated ranch houses can be just stunning, but don’t expect to buy a rundown ranch and create magic with a sledgehammer and a vision—there is an art to updating them. The trick...
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Got Terrible Neighbors? Here’s One (Spiteful) Solution
photo: Willowpix/iStock text treatment: Greg Chow Good fences make good neighbors, wrote the poet Robert Frost. But sometimes even fences don’t keep the dogs out. And sometimes neighbors are so mad...
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Construction Numbers Are Up—So, Will Prices Go Down?
realtor.com Last month we had pretty good news from the Commerce Department: Privately owned housing starts in June were up 9.8% from May. More supply for the intense demand! More confirmation of the...
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We Can Tell You How to Get to Sesame Street, but You Probably Can’t Buy There
Zach Hyman/sesameworkshop.org Since its premiere in 1969, “Sesame Street”—both the PBS kids’ show and the fictional block on which it is set—has been a place where city dwellers of different incomes...
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Escape From New York—Go to Portland, Maine!
Wikipedia Welcome to Escape From New York, in which I find new cities and new homes for New Yorkers priced out of their own real estate market. In this installment we feature Chad, a teacher and...
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First-Time Buyers Aren’t the Ones Snatching Up Homes
Feverpitched/iStock We’re on Month 3 for the continuing rise of existing-home sales, according to a report by the National Association of Realtors® that came out on Thursday. Completed sales of...
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Why the Affordable Housing Fight on HBO’s ‘Show Me a Hero’ Wouldn’t Happen Now
Paul Schiraldi/courtesy of HBO Critics say the new HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero,” a racially charged affordable housing drama set in the suburbs, “couldn’t seem more timely.” After all, just last...
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Forget Sun City, Meet the Retirement Community of the Future
Victory at Verrado via Facebook Today is National Senior Citizens Day, on which we celebrate our grandparents, our parents, and, for the 45 million-odd of us over 65, ourselves. That number will be 84...
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Is China’s Falling Stock Market Good for American Home Buyers?
PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images You have likely heard: The stock market of the world’s second-largest economy, China, took a nosedive last week, falling 11.5%, causing a panic among global financial...
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New-Home Sales Were Up in July—So Were Prices
Justin Horrocks/iStock July was a good month for new-home sales. That’s according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s new-home sales report, released on...
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U.S. Home Prices May Be Flatter, but Denver’s Are Still Mile-High
welcomia/iStock The big news this month: Home prices in June had barely inched up from a year ago, according to Tuesday morning’s S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Actually, that was the big...
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Is Miami the New New York?
wsfurlan/iStock A couple of months ago, we heard that Los Angeles was the new Brooklyn, as New Yorkers fled the wealth, glitz, and blizzards for wealth, glitz, and permanent summer. Apparently,...
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July Pending Home Sales Are Up (but Just Barely)
MarkCoffeyPhoto/iStock It’s been a big week for reporting real estate data. On Tuesday, we learned that new-home sales were up, and prices along with them. Denver took the proverbial double-digit...
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Escape From New York—Go to Denver
AlbertPego/iStock Welcome to another installment of Escape From New York, in which I find new cities, and homes, for New Yorkers priced out of the real estate market. Today we meet Jamie and Paul, a...
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Yes, This Is $365K in Real Estate
realtor.com In some markets, $365,000 won’t get you much more than a closet (hello, Manhattan), but in other places that amount will fetch you a handsome, sprawling Victorian. Here’s a peek at a few...
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This Artist Is Photographing All of Her Facebook Friends in Their Homes
Tanja Hollander A couple of years ago, Tanja Hollander started posting about her unusual new art project: traveling the world, photographing every one of her Facebook friends in their homes. It...
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The Coolest-Looking [Affordable] Housing Ever
makeitright.org Unsurprisingly in an era of ever-rising home prices, the big real estate news these days is all about affordable housing. How much do we need? How do we fund it? And where should it be...
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Decently Sized Salary and Teeny, Tiny Apartment—in NYC!
nArchitects Tiny houses, as we all know, are irresistibly cute. Almost too cute. But what about tiny apartments? Microunits in U.S. cities have been all the rage in the past couple of years, proposed...
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