Picturesque but pricey.
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Florida home insurance premiums have shot up threefold in just five years.
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We found people who own their home outright were 1.5 times as likely to be highly satisfied with life as renters. But it can be a different story if you have a mortgage – especially if you’re 50-plus.
Corporate investors own nearly one-third of all single-family rental properties in Atlanta.
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Black would-be homeowners pay the price when big investors buy up the neighborhood.
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Mortgaged households have faced a 17.5% increase in living costs over the past two years, compared to 10.8% for households who rent.
A new study sheds light on how short-term rentals like Airbnb make housing less affordable.
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Do you ever worry about how Airbnb rentals might be affecting your neighbourhood? Your concerns might not be misplaced.
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The questions you should be asking a mortgage broker.
Purchasing property as a primary home is considered more ethical than acquiring property for investment.
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A scholar who examines the impact of property ownership explains why purchasing a home comes with many moral obligations.
A new act in Canada bans non-citizens, non-permanent residents and foreign commercial enterprises from buying Canadian residential properties.
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Since foreign owners only represent a tiny segment of the housing market, it’s unlikely that Canada’s new ban on foreign homebuyers will make homes more affordable for Canadians.
Younger generations are finding it harder to meet traditional financial milestones.
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Owning a home by age 30 is increasingly a distant dream thanks to a growing generational wealth gap.
Mortgages can haunt homeowners.
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With 30-year fixed rates hitting a 20-year high of 7%, a finance scholar explains where these life-altering loans originated.
The removal of drywall during mold remediation is seen after a basement flood.
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Routine maintenance is necessary for every homeowner. But for Black women, that burden is complicated by decades of redlining and the impacts of climate change.
The rebuilding in places like Matlacha, Fla., won’t happen overnight.
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Many government agencies help people whose lives are thrown off course, but not everyone is eligible or able to access that aid.
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Labor’s scheme will get people into homeownership who would have otherwise missed out. The Coalition’s will get people already likely to buy into houses sooner.
Several lawmakers from high-tax states like New York are pushing for changes to a key tax deduction in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package.
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The 2017 tax cuts put a $10,000 cap on the deduction for state and local taxes. The richest households would see the biggest gains from eliminating or raising the cap.
A photographer stands in a rain of flaming embers during a fire in California in 2019.
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A fire scientist explains the risk of flying embers that can travel over a mile from a wildfire and how people can protect their homes.
Former slaves harvesting for their own profit.
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Black farmers own far less land than they did in 1910 and the racial gap in homeownership is at the highest level for 50 years.
Rent strikers from Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood and fellow protesters gather outside Social Justices Tribunal Ontario in February, 2018. The group refused to pay rent after the landlord applied for an increase in rents.
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It’s time to reset Canada’s housing policies to make cities more affordable and more socially just places to live.
Millennials are less likely to own a home than previous generations were at the same age.
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As millennials flock to certain parts of the US, home prices in those areas are surging.
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A new study in Glasgow suggests latent anti-Pakistani sentiment may affect the house-moving decisions of white British homeowners.
Scratch this off your to-do list.
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Unless it sparks joy, go ahead and scratch this task off your spring-cleaning checklist.