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What Would a Donald Trump White House Look Like?
White House photo: nojustice/iStockplane: kevinjeon00/iStockconcept: Greg Chow Every president and first lady have put their interior design stamp on the White House. If Donald Trump has his way into...
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Is Legalization of Marijuana Good or Bad for Home Values?
house: orzeczenie/iStock; smoker: WilliamSherman/Getty Images Denver’s housing market has been hot, hot, hot this year; in some months, prices have risen more steeply there than in any other city....
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This $725M Ranch Puts Our Most Expensive Megamansion to Shame
Chris Collins/Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty We’ve been fascinated by our most expensive listing, a 25-acre Beverly Hills estate now priced at $149 million, since it went on the market...
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Seems Like Americans Are Getting Happy About Housing Again
draco77/iStock News flash: The soaring prices of real estate in some parts of the country don’t have Americans down. In fact, the current real estate market has them pretty darn upbeat. The 2015...
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Hipsters Need Tiny Houses, Too
houses: shorrocks/iStock Tiny houses have many a function in modern society. They can reduce our impact on the environment, transform a single-family property into a multifamily one, house the...
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Why Presidential Candidates Should Be Talking About Housing
Ben Carson: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images; Donald Trump: James Devaney/WireImage; Hillary Clinton: Joe Raedle/Getty Images So far, the presidential candidates have talked about immigration, turmoil in...
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Church of Bacon Hopes for a Miracle With Penn Jillette Estate
David Becker/WireImage; unitedchurchofbacon.org People clamoring to buy converted churches is nothing new. But a recent headline about a church trying to buy and convert a celebrity home into a...
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Just How Much for the Jeffersons’ Deluxe Apartment in the Sky?
The Jeffersons: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; 185 E 85th St: Google Maps When George Jefferson, the dry-cleaning mogul and protagonist of the mid-’70s TV sitcom “The Jeffersons,” decided to...
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Why Meat Eaters Might Pay Higher Rent
fStop Images/Getty Images A landlord who cares deeply about your health? Well, that’s the story, anyway. Jinesh Varia, who is renting out a three-bedroom townhouse with a fireplace and a Jacuzzi tub...
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Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ House Is for Sale, for Just $299,000
Bruce Springsteen: Debra L Rothenberg/FilmMagic; house: realtor.com Just in June, Bruce Springsteen put his Beverly Hills compound up for sale for somewhere around $60 million, Variety reported. It’s...
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This Award-Winning House Gives Back—and It’s Almost Seaworthy
Thomas Kelsey/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon In 2002, when the U.S. Department of Energy held the first Solar Decathlon—a competition for the most energy-efficient homes in the world—on the...
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Should the New-Construction Numbers Worry You?
wbritten/iStock Uh-oh. Fewer new homes were authorized in September than August, the Commerce Department reported on Tuesday morning. The 5% dip in building permits means fewer housing units to ease...
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This Mississippi Quonset Hut Is an Industrial-Strength Weekend Retreat
realtor.com When David Robert, a helicopter pilot from Lafourche Parish, LA, flew over the Gulf Coast in 2005, he saw firsthand the destruction wrought by a trio of hurricanes that swept through the...
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Millennials, You’ve Got Housing Competition—From Your Parents
House: Mike and Heidi Canada/iStock; people: Ljupco Smokovski/iStock Hey, millennials, there may be way more of you than there are baby boomers, but that doesn’t mean you’ll beat the oldsters in the...
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Google Worker Lives in a Truck, Cuts Monthly Expenses to $121
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Hmm … another day, another news report of a presumably well-off Bay Area tech employee living out of a vehicle. It’s our second story along these lines this week—and it’s...
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‘Back to the Future II’ Got This Wrong: Marty McFly’s House Is Doing Fine
The Marty McFly house today (top): Google Maps; house in "Back to the Future Part III" (above): Universal Pictures Many of the predictions about 2015 in “Back to the Future II” have come true. Video...
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Home Sales Are Up Again, but So Is Competition Among Buyers
HerminUtomo/iStock A month-over-month dip in home sales last month caused real estate watchers to ponder—gasp—a potential cooling of the market. But on Thursday the National Association of Realtors®...
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This Is the Scariest Open House Ever (Good Thing It’s Fake)
Renee Lee/iStock A lot of strange things have happened at open houses—agents have found voodoo dolls and naked couples, among many other odd sights. But how many times have mirrors cracked, microwaves...
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Guess Who Is Nick Jonas’ Celebrity Landlady
The Ellen DeGeneres Show Many a TV landlord has gained fame in popular culture: think of Mr. Roper on “Three’s Company,” Fred and Ethel Mertz on “I Love Lucy” or Amanda Woodward on “Melrose Place”...
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New-Home Sales Are Down—Even More Than We Had Thought
Max-9/iStock In a report on new-home sales on Monday, the Commerce Department noted that numbers were down—and for the past few months, those numbers were worse than it had previously reported....
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