home ownership
The People Buying Houses With Their Friends
“I think it was always in the back of our minds that this could get messy.”
This New Real Estate Service Wants to Be Amazon Prime for... Houses?
It’s called Homebourse, and it claims to let you one-click buy everything from a humble home to a $3 million dollar Miami shag pad.
Robot Landlords Are Buying Up Houses
Companies with deep resources are outsourcing management to apps and algorithms, putting home ownership further out of reach.
How Many ‘Luxuries’ Would You Have to Give Up to Buy a House?
We worked out that you'd have to sacrifice Netflix and Spotify for over a thousand years just to afford a deposit in London.
Half a Million Canadians Have No Idea Their Property Is in a Flood Zone
A new study has found that flood damage to Canadian homes could increase fivefold in the next few decades and tenfold by 2100.
These People Bought Their Own House – Now They Regret It
"I can’t even sell because my flat is worth zero until these problems are fixed."
How the ‘Millennial Divorce’ Became the Defining Break-Up of a Generation
As modern couples choose to cohabit without tying the knot, splitting up after buying a house together has been dubbed the “millennial divorce”.
No, Coronavirus Is Not Going to Mean You Can Afford to Buy a House
Vulture investment funds are circling and planning to snap up housing while it's cheap.
Canada’s New Mortgage Rules Could Actually Make Housing More Expensive
Best-case scenario, housing is a little more affordable. Worst-case, you're paying more.
Women Be Shopping for Houses
According to a report from the National Association of Realtors research group, single women represented 18 percent of the total homebuyers in 2019, versus a mere nine percent of single men.
How Six Friends Pooled Their Money to Buy a $1.3 Million House in Toronto
What might be the first arrangement of its kind allowed a half-dozen young people shut out of the prohibitively expensive market to actually own a place—and they seem to be making it work.
Is Living in a Tiny House Something People Actually Enjoy?
We talked to people about the realities of hyper compact living.