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Is It Time to Buy in a Shrinking City?
Davel5957/iStock Here’s the not news: Cities that have suffered population loss over the past few decades are eminently affordable. Buffalo, NY; New Orleans, LA; and Dayton, Cleveland, Toledo, and...
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Would You Pay $4.2 Million for the Flintstones House?
If you’ve driven on the San Francisco Bay Area’s Interstate 280 anytime since, say, 1976, you’ve seen it: the brightly colored domes, made of shotcrete and wire, that make up what’s known around these...
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TBT: When Home Appliances Were Pastel
The Henry Ford Museum; Daniel Loiselle/Getty Images There’s no color more optimistic than pink, right? That may be one reason soft pink and its cousins—soft yellow, turquoise, and mint green—were so...
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Looking for a Real Estate Bargain? Try Paris, Rome, and Milan
JolieQ/iStock With the collapse of the Chinese stock market and the future uncertain for Chinese investment in real estate, eager buyers may look to some unlikely locales for bargains. “Average home...
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Suffering From Real Estate Depression? Here’s the Cure
ARTPUPPY/iStock Once upon a time there was an apartment for sale. It was big and beautiful (after you painted over the lime-green living room) and in my friends’ building. And we could afford it. This...
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Don’t Refuse These 5 Stylish Refuse Bins
Karim Rashid for Casamania/Artware Editions/ All Modern You already know that you can buy a high-design chicken coop, a high-design cat bed, and a high-design doghouse. (Yes, they make fancy versions...
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Residents Put ‘No Californians’ Stickers on Portland For-Sale Signs
photo: _nav_/iStock California image: Greg Chow What is it with nasty real estate signs? Two weeks ago we brought you the tale of spiteful neighbors, in which one couple, fed up with the couple next...
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Escape From New York—Go to the Catskills
Barry Winiker/Getty Images Welcome to Escape From New York, in which I find new homes for New Yorkers priced out of their city. In this installment we meet Rachel, an artist currently holing up in a...
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More Jobs? Don’t Expect Better Housing Prospects
Luckie8/iStock You would think the improving employment numbers would be good for home buyers, but it turns out that we just can’t build homes fast enough for our rising number of workers. So says a...
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How Much Real Estate Would Warren Buffett’s $32 Billion Buy?
Warren Buffet photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for FORTUNEMonopoly Berkshire Hathaway edition: Parker Brothers Earlier this week, billionaire businessman Warren Buffett revealed to Yahoo Finance that...
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Bankrupt Rapper 50 Cent Shows Off His New African Digs
Brendan McDermid/Reuters “Thought you were bankrupt?” asked one commenter. Fair question. Curtis Jackson, also known as “In Da Club” rapper 50 Cent, filed for bankruptcy this summer, revealing...
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TBT: Fresh Prince’s Bel Air Mansion (That’s Not in Bel Air)
house: Warner Bros. Televisioninset: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” hit the airwaves 25 years ago today, featuring a youthful Will Smith (before “Men in Black,” before...
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Is the Wild Stock Market Scaring Off Luxury Buyers?
blocberry/iStockOliver Hoffmann/iStock For a while, it seemed like the luxury housing market was downright untouchable. “More properties than ever before were both sold and listed for sale at US $100...
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Can Tiny Houses Solve the World’s Biggest Problems?
Elevate How can we not love tiny houses—they’re just so darn cute! And they’re weirdly aspirational for those of us who daydream about paring down to almost no worldly possessions and living the...
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Will NYC’s New Subway Stop Finally Make the Far (Wild) West Side Cool?
Andrew Burton/Getty Images For years, the far West Side of Manhattan has been a lonely place. The Javits Center, New York’s convention center that had been plagued with structural, not to mention...
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Too Many Apartments for Rent in Brooklyn? Why Don’t Prices Go Down?
NYCstocker/iStock For the past couple of years, the trumpet call has been sounding all across New York City, especially in Brooklyn, aka the trendiest place in America: There aren’t enough homes, and...
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Forget Mansions—Americans Are Drooling Over Cabins
CabinPorn McMansions used to be one supersize symbol of the American dream, but these days many of our country’s most celebrated businesspeople see success more diminutively: in the form of a cabin....
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#TBT: Monica and Rachel’s Pad vs. Joey and Chandler’s Apartment in ‘Friends’
David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images Anyone who watched the ’90s sitcom “Friends”—and who had also set foot, even once, in a New York City apartment—knows that Monica and Rachel had a great, ginormous pad...
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Home Construction Dips in August. Does It Matter?
Paul Giamou/Getty Images Is the go-go U.S. housing construction market finally taking a breather? It certainly seems that way—at least according to statistics on new residential construction released...
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The Newest Luxury Amenity: Forest Therapy With a Side of Energy Cleanse
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies The luxury market expanded wildly in the post-housing bubble era, spurring developers to compete for the 1% with the most lavish—and sometimes...
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