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How land value tax could fix the housing crisis | World Economic Forum
Land value tax incentivizes landowners to improve their land and has been shown to boost housing supply, experts say. Land value tax is a tax on... (2022)
Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times
If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)
FAQs about Home Inspection | American Society of Home Inspectors, ASHI
Learn more about the FAQs about Home Inspection. (2021)
How Fear Took Over the American Suburbs - Citylab, Bloomberg
How Fear Took Over the American Suburbs The new book “Neighborhood of Fear” shows the rise of suburban vigilantes and NIMBYs in the late part of... (2021)
The next economic crisis: Empty retail space
As tenants stop paying and shrink their offices, commercial real estate is cratering. (2020)
Bloomberg - San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.
San Francisco’s sky-high apartment rents are falling fast. The median monthly rate for a studio in the city tumbled 31% in September from a year... (2020)
A Pandemic Is a Terrible Time to Buy Real Estate - Bloomberg
Home prices are high and so is uncertainty More than 40 % of Americans are working from home, and among them the urge to “work nest” is strong. ... (2020)
One-Third of American Renters Expected to Miss Their August Payment - Blooming
An expansive census survey reveals a nation stretched to the brink by the financial toll of pandemic. (2020)
Eerie Calm Settles on Housing Market, Defying Doomsayers for Now - Bloomberg
June 2020 Pandemic hasn’t brought wave of defaults that some predicted. Expiring stimulus could renew distress for owners and renters. The i... (2020)
The Coral Gables Problem Beneath the Surface
Nearly half of Coral Gables residences are on septic tanks. Many may be leaking. As sea levels rise, how big a problem is that? % Keon says “the... (2020)
Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage - The New York Times
Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations. (2020)
California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis - The New York Times
The measure, affecting millions of tenants, is the biggest step in a nationwide surge of initiatives to address rising costs and homelessness. (2019)
Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries - The New York Times
Other cities have combined books and subsidized housing, but the outgoing mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has embraced the concept with three striking new pro... (2019)
Billions in Dirty Cash Helped Fuel Vancouver's Housing Boom - Bloomberg
- Some $5 billion laundered in province last year: government - Laundering increased provincial home prices as much as 7.5% Vancouver pen... (2019)
Huge funding rounds for Opendoor and Offerpad show how expensive Zillow’s bet on home sales could be
Buying and selling hundreds or even thousands of homes at the same time gets pretty expensive — just ask Opendoor and Offerpad. The two real estate... (2019)
Real Estate’s Latest Bid: Zillow Wants to Buy Your House - The New York Times
Offering “instant buying” to home sellers, companies like Zillow and Opendoor are bringing liquidity to the housing market. Critics fear they will ... (2019)
College Kids Are Living Like Kings in Vancouver’s Empty Mansions - 2019 - Bloomberg
Globe-trotting landlords can avoid vacancy taxes by renting. It’s the latest twist for a housing market down 8.5% from its peak. (2019)
CB Insights report 2019 - WeWork’s $47 Billion Dream
The Lavishly Funded Startup That Could Disrupt Commercial Real Estate With $6.5B in equity funding, WeWork is expanding aggressively at home and... (2019)
Berlin Builds an Arsenal of Ideas to Stage a Housing Revolution - CityLab
Will Karl Marx Allee Spark Berlin's Housing Revolution? The proposals might seem radical—from banning huge corporate landlords to freezing rents... (2019)
Historic Quebec City Braces Itself For An Ultra-Modern Skyscraper
Le Phare would stand 65-stories high in Sainte-Foy, an old, low-lying suburb of the historic city. (2019)
Even With a Housing Oversupply, Quebec City Is Coming For Its Farmland
As agricultural areas are snatched up and transformed into new housing developments, one farmer keeps fighting. (2019)
Microsoft Pledges $500 Million for Affordable Housing in Seattle Area - The New York Times
The move is the most ambitious effort yet by a tech company to fund construction for local teachers, firefighters and other middle- and low-income ... (2019)
WeWork rebrands to The We Company after disappointing SoftBank round - 2019 - Fast Company
CEO Adam Neumann reveals the name change, goes into detail on his recent conversations with SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, who invested $2 billion in th... (2019)
Is Montreal Affordable? Montrealers Say Not Really. - CityLab
Compared to Toronto and Vancouver, Montreal’s real estate market looks enviable—but its rents are shaped by factors other cities can’t replicate. (2018)
You might find your next home on Amazon — Quartz
Real estate technology will soon compress buying, selling, and renting in an app. Big Tech will soon become our landlords, too. (2018)
How Big Tech Swallowed Seattle || Bloomberg
Two tech titans made billions and remade the city. Is it any better off? (2018)
Tired of Dirty Dishes and ‘Hacker Houses,’ Millennials Revamp Communal Living - POLITICO
‘Co-living’ offers more affordable rent, a cleaning service and even the occasional happy hour. And no more psycho roommates. (2018)
These Cottages Were Built to Defy Storms—and Pricey Rent—in the Florida Keys
After the destruction of Hurricane Irma, the Florida Keys Community Land Trust started building affordable cottages that can withstand the next storm. (2018)
There's New Research Behind the Contention that Airbnb Raises Rents || CityLab
A preliminary analysis of 100 U.S. metro areas suggests Airbnb bears at least some responsibility for soaring housing costs. (2018)
Rent or buy? How to know when renting a home makes sense
Is it better to rent or buy your home? Folks have been arguing about this for decades. Let's look at some quick and easy ways to evaluate the numbe... (2018)
Using real estate investing, This attorney plans to retire by 42 and live virtually tax-free | FIRE Starters
Seattle attorney Sylvia Hall worked off six figures in student debt on her path to financial independence. Now, she plans to use real estate to pay... (2024)
The new land rush in Wyoming
Teton County in Wyoming is home to the widest income divide in America, with a median house price of more than $5 million and an average income of ... (2023)
Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same
Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same (2022)
This Town Was Paradise, Then Everyone Started Working From Home
Freed from traditional offices, remote workers are relocating all over the country, fueling "Zoom booms" in remote towns. In Crested Butte, Colorad... (2021)
Evictions (housing) - Coronavirus IX, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight With evictions on the rise due to coronavirus, John Oliver discusses the long struggle with housing in the US, why it’s gotten ... (2020)
Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes - Vox
Vox Published on Aug 15, 2018 When houses are the size of parking spaces. Hong Kong is the most expensive housing market in the world. It has ... (2018)
When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World - a16z
Buying a home is in many ways the pinnacle of the American dream. And yet the way things work today, it's a painful process. Real estate agents, br... (2018)
Do I Need To Buy A House? | PBS
The importance of homeownership is still embedded in American culture, but actual homeownership has dropped to its lowest level since 1967. How sho... (2018)
Did Hurricane Ian Bust Florida’s Housing Boom? - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. Since Hurricane Ian devastated southwestern Florida last month, residents have filed a record num... (2022)
Making old buildings resilient to climate change requires new financial tools - Marketplace
It's one thing to install new energy systems. It's another to get the money to do it. Donnel Baird, BlocPower’s founder and CEO, said retrofitti... (2020)
Millions of Americans face stigma of moving back in with their parents
As the financial crisis deepens, many adults are moving back home. But the trend started before the pandemic. (2020)
Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1) - a16z
This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, selle... (2020)
An Investment Expert Says Florida Homeowners Should Sell Property Now As Climate Impacts Worsen | WLRN
An expert on the impact of climate change on financial markets has advice for anyone thinking of buying a home in Florida: don’t. Spencer Glendon o... (2019)
What’s next for WeWork, an episode from Financial Times on Spotify - Jan 2019
SoftBank changed course when it scaled back plans for an investment in WeWork from $16bn to $2bn. The FT’s Eric Platt spoke with US business editor... (2019)
Fire and Rain -- Floods after Forest Fires || 99% Invisible
Nestled between the mountains and the ocean, right next to Santa Barbara, sits Montecito, California. The community is charming and geographically ... (2018)
a16z Podcast: Real Estate — Ownership, Asset, Economy – Andreessen Horowitz
The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: ei... (2017)
Kindred - Travel: Home Swapping & Exchange Network for Members-Only
Experience authentic travel through Kindred's home exchange community. Swap homes and explore the world for less. (2023)
Housing Inspection - Standard of Practice
| American Society of Home Inspectors, ASHI ASHI's Standard of Practice is a reference tool to guide inspectors through thorough home inspectio... (2021)
Flood Factor - Find Your Home's Flood Factor
Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)
Flood Zone Maps - Miami-Dade County
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) detailed digital flood hazard maps reflect current flood risks for Miami-Dade County. (2020)