housing
My partner and I travel around the world by housesitting stranger’s homes.In exchange for a free place to stay, we look after people’s homes, pets, and plants.Since our housing costs are basically zero, we love this lifestyle and have no plans to stop. I’ve always had the travel bug, and…
Real estate experts told BI that the office sector will experience a wave of distress in coming years.Run-down, vacant offices could be sold in fire sales as owners cut their losses.That might be good news for housing supply as former offices get converted to apartments, industry vets said. A seismic…
It may not feel like it yet, but the housing market’s Ice Age is finally thawing.Would-be buyers and sellers have found themselves stuck over the past couple of years. For-sale signs stood frozen in front yards as home shoppers balked at prices. Wild swings in mortgage rates discouraged almost everyone…
Ceronne Mitchell started applying for the New York City affordable-housing lottery while she was in college.The rent for her one-bedroom apartment in Queens is $1,631 a month.Competition for lottery apartments is stiff: On average, there are 450 applications for each rental unit. Ceronne Mitchell, 26, first learned about the New…
Welcome back to our Saturday edition! You’re not alone if you’ve ever struggled to make a big decision. Shailene Woodley credits George Clooney for accepting a multi-year contract after being “scared to say yes” to the “Divergent” series. The films went on to make $346 million at the box office.On…
Xyndi Lomboy and her family moved to California from Georgia in 2023. She said they couldn’t be happier with the decision, despite the increased costs.Lomboy and her husband Eric briefly lived in the Bay Area from 2014 to 2017, before relocating to Roswell, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. While in…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angela Santiago, a 33-year-old single mom who won an apartment with below-market-rate rent in Montville, a township about 30 miles west of Midtown Manhattan, through an affordable housing lottery program run by Piazza and Associates. She shared her experience in a…
By Corina Pons MADRID (Reuters) – Francisco Carrillo sobbed with relief as he lay on the bed in his new apartment in Madrid provided by a charity after three years of sleeping rough in the backroom of a theatre. The 62-year-old pensioner found he couldn’t afford rental prices in the…
mebbe we do a trudeau thumbnail? kinda hard to tell that house is indeed canadian. i’m surprised they don’t have a bilingual for sale sign and i’m pretty sure that’s illegal.Canada is facing a housing affordability crisis even more severe than the US’s housing woes. But the federal government is…
Last September, New York City began enforcing its strict new regulations on short-term rentals. Since then, the number of legal short-term rentals listed on Airbnb and other platforms has plummeted.Less than a year into the city’s policy, known as Local Law 18, it’s not clear whether the near-ban is achieving…
