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One Map Shows How Many Hours You Need to Work Minimum Wage to Rent an Apartment in Any State
The rent is too damn high.
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Inside Japan’s Disposable Housing Market
In a culture obsessed with newness, no one wants a "used" home—which makes the Japanese real estate market almost unrecognizable to an American. Philip Brasor just wanted a place to call home in Japan. The 58-year-old writer, born in a sleepy bayside suburb on the north shore of New York’s Long Island, had lived in the country for more than 15 years. He and his wife, Masako Tsubuku, 57, scoured the home market for...
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Inside the Most Expensive, Extravagant Mansion in L.A.
A look at the lavish 100,000-square-foot gigamansion that is under construction on a hilltop in Bel Air for no one in particular.
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Chinese Cash Floods U.S. Real Estate Market (Video)
Canyon Lake Ranch was once a playground for Christian day campers, and then was a corporate retreat with water-skiing, barbecues and cowboy shoot-’em-up shows. Hawks now circle above 108 sunbaked acres occupied by copperhead snakes, a few coyotes and the occasional construction truck. Soon this ranch will be a gated subdivision of 99 mini-mansions designed for buyers from mainland China. The developer, Zhang Long, a Beijing businessman, is...
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Detroit tries unconventional approach to restoring its housing market
For Jazley Trouser, a 25-year-old Home Depot worker who has endured her share of hard times, the opportunity to become a homeowner was too good to pass up. With a $1,000 bid on the city’s online auction site, Trouser bought a four-bedroom Tudor plundered by thieves. A $25,000 grant from a community bank covered her renovation costs. Now she owns the 1929 home, restored to its former glory, mortgage free.
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5 tips when buying or selling a house in Jamaica from overseas | The Law Offices of Pearnel P. Charles Jr.
Retain an experienced and competent Attorney-at-Law to protect your investment and represent your interest. 2. Obtain a TaxPayer Registration Number (TRN). 3. Determine your means of financing and, if applicable, obtain pre approval for preferred mortgage provider. 4. Know what you are buying- obtain a title search, land survey and valuation to confirm the parameters and value of the property as well as determining whether there are claims or conflicting interests registered against the...
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Is the Tiny-House Movement a Big Fat Lie?
Tiny houses are so hip it hurts. Hailed for their low cost of living and minuscule carbon footprint, these dwellings measuring 400 square feet (or less) have emerged as the perfect retort to America’s obsession with McMansions and overconsumption. Heck, some say they could even be the solution to our country’s affordable housing crisis. So is our nation headed toward a future filled with pint-sized homes from sea to shining sea? On the contrary, rumblings are afoot that could...
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How gentrification really changes a neighborhood
To neighbors, she was “Miss Anna,” and to her children, she was the strictest, strongest woman in Kirkwood. By Josh Green.
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Only in San Francisco — Inside the 232-square-foot micro apartment that sold for nearly $425,000 (Video)
Heather Stoltz knows how to sell a home in San Francisco's hot real-estate market. When she put this micro apartment up for sale, she instantly had people lining up to view the space. It seemed that the prospective buyers had no problem with the price tag or the size: $425,000 for 232 square feet. It sold for just under asking price. Step inside this micro apartment where a little space and creativity can go a long way.
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UK housing crisis: four in 10 renters fear they will never own a home
David Cameron’s pledge to build a property-owning democracy is called into serious question by a landmark survey revealing that almost four in 10 of those who do not own a home believe they will never be able to do so. According to an exclusive poll for the Observer on attitudes to British housing, 69% of people think the country is “in the throes of a housing crisis”. A staggering 71% of aspiring property owners doubt their ability to buy a home without...
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A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught us about housing prices
I don’t know anything about Eric Fischer except that he’s a freaking hero. Much like everyone else who has recently attempted to live in San Francisco, Fischer is very interested in housing costs. However, unlike every other such person, Fischer decided to contribute to this conversation by doubling the depth of modern historical data about them. Until now, the most commonly cited information about SF housing prices had gone back to 1979...
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Homeownership is no longer the American Dream
Americans now confuse renting money from the bank for true home ownership. “The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting it...
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Absolute dump on the market for $5MILLION in Palo Alto
The run-down home is on the same street as the one Steve Jobs lived in for 20 years until his death in 2011.Other famous neighbors include Mark Zuckerberg and Google founder Sergey Brin.
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Sydney grandmother rejects $26m offer on home
An 82-year-old woman has knocked back an estimated offer of $26 million for her home in northwestern Sydney, saying she simply doesn’t want to sell up. Ruth, a retired school teacher who did not want her surname to be disclosed, lives on a 2500 square metre block in Castle Hill, opposite the planned train station. Across the road, a consolidated block of five properties sold in late 2014 for $20.5 million. But the mother-of-six’s elusive property is proving especially attractive to developers because the site is zoned for double the density.
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Vancouver’s real estate is ‘fuelled by a money laundering bubble’: Market analyst
There is no denying that the real estate market in Vancouver is red hot – prices have been rising with no end in sight. But one market analyst thinks we will see the bubble burst. Marc Cohodes used to run one of the largest hedge funds on Wall Street. Now, he’s eyeing the Canadian housing market.
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Vancouver housing: After dragging heels, Feds plan crackdown on tax cheats
A “bombshell” internal federal government document has triggered a new wave of accusations of government inaction in dealing with Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis.
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B.C. to target foreign real estate buyers with new tax
The B.C. government plans to tax foreigners who buy residential property in the Vancouver area – an announcement that follows months of pressure to address foreign speculation that many have blamed for the region’s superheated housing market. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said the 15 per cent tax, which takes effect Aug. 2, will apply to the sale of all residential properties within Metro Vancouver, excluding treaty lands in the Tsawwassen First Nation. The tax will apply to buyers who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents...
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Feds to require buyers of luxury properties in L.A. County to reveal their true identities
Los Angeles has long attracted wealthy individuals willing to spend millions of dollars for a sprawling estate in the chaparral hills above the city or along its fabled coast. But in addition to movie stars, financial executives and foreign billionaires, Los Angeles real estate has also attracted criminals seeking to launder ill-gotten gains by purchasing its tony mega-mansions. Amid heightened concern that such individuals are using shell companies to hide stolen funds, the federal government is cracking down.
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Housing official in Silicon Valley resigns because she can't afford to live there
Once Kate Downing and her husband Steve did the math, it was obvious that if they wanted to raise a family, staying in Palo Alto, California, was not an option. Although Steve, 33, works as a software engineer at a nearby Silicon Valley technology company and Kate, 31, is a product attorney at another tech firm, the cost of owning a home near their jobs has simply become too steep for them. If they wanted to purchase their current house – which they rent with another couple for $6,200 a month total...
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The Latest High-End Real Estate Amenity? The Luxury Safe Room
Disaster preparedness is a big deal to the one percent. By Adrienne Gaffney.
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