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The ‘Ghost Condos’ of L.A.: Why Is a Chinese State-Backed Company Holding Hundreds of Empty Units? In the middle of Los Angeles, four gleaming skyscrapers stretch toward the clouds. The glass-fronted development, dubbed Metropolis, includes two condo towers, one rental tower, and the luxury Indigo Hotel. All told, the block-long expanse includes more than 1,500Read …

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I Left a $3,000 Oakland Rental To Buy a $165K House in Rochester—and Cut My Housing Costs in Half Thinking about buying a home, but not sure how to afford it? Welcome to the Down Payment Diaries, where real people spill about how they saved and splurged on their path to homeownership. If you’d likeRead …

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How to Keep Your Kids From Destroying the Ancestral Estate—and Get a Tax Break in the Process When their assets include large pieces of land, families in the U.S.can face stark choices. One faction may want to preserve the land; another may want to break it up for a financial windfall. But more landowners areRead …

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The Real Reason Why Home Prices in The Villages Are Falling Home prices in the largest master-planned community in the country, The Villages, have steadily declined over the past four years, despite the idyllic lifestyle it promises. Inside the Central Florida community, which is home to over 150,000 residents, median home prices peaked in 2022Read …

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Soaring Home Prices Leave 91% of Renters Unable To Buy in This Western State Home prices in Utah continue to increase, putting 91% of renters out of the running to become homeowners, according to a new report. The median sale price across all housing types in Utah rose to $520,000 in the first quarter ofRead …

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7 Ways To Refresh Your Home This Fall Without a Full-Blown Remodel As summer winds down and fall approaches, you may be wondering how to give your home a little refresh. Fortunately, you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars or live through months of construction dust to do so. “There are so many creativeRead …

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HGTV Star Erin Napier Fiercely Defends Decision To Homeschool Her 2 Daughters: ‘You Know Nothing’ “Home Town” star Erin Napier has fiercely defended her decision to homeschool her two young daughters after an online critic made assumptions about why she and husband Ben Napier chose to educate their children at home. The 40-year-old HGTV personalityRead …

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BookTok Is Inspiring a New Home Design Trend: The Cozy Reading Retreat If you love to read, #BookTok’s latest trend—a personal reading retreat—might be right up your alley. And with highly anticipated releases like Audrey Niffenegger’s Life Out of Order and Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Splintered Harmony arriving this fall, there’s no betterRead …

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Widow Claims His Mother Sold $1.6 Million Family Home He Intended for His Wife and Daughter Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s widow has accused the late actor’s mother of selling his $1.6 million Los Angeles home despite allegedly intending for the property to go to his wife and daughter. More than a year after the “CosbyRead …

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