Category: Buying/Selling/Renting

A Forest Park, Georgia couple watched their tenant fall more than $13,000 behind on rent while, according to court records, she continued to spend on luxury items. The case ended with a Judge finally ordering her out, but only after months in which she remained in the home without paying. Her story captures how a…

Buying a home on a tight income means every dollar you keep is a dollar that can go toward your down payment, closing costs or emergency reserves. Drawing on frugal strategies from Austin Williams, I focus here on practical ways to stop lifestyle spending from quietly wrecking your home-buying budget. Each hack is about living…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani entered office promising to treat New York City’s housing market as a public good, not a speculative playground, and his first big legal test has arrived faster than many expected. A federal bankruptcy judge has now refused his administration’s attempt to step into a major portfolio sale of rent-stabilized buildings, handing Mamdani…

New York City’s new housing regime is taking shape around a partnership that many landlords see as a warning sign and many tenants view as overdue course correction. By elevating Cea Weaver, a veteran organizer who has spent years attacking the city’s speculative real estate model, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is turning his campaign rhetoric into…

Florida’s shoreline is crowded with famous destinations, but real estate agents are increasingly steering long-term buyers toward a smaller group of beach towns they believe could look very different in five years. Based on their forecasts, Fernandina Beach, Anna Maria Island, Captiva, Siesta Key and Indian Shores stand out as places where today’s purchase could…

California’s population story is no longer just about tech moguls decamping to tax havens. The most visible face of the state’s outflow is now the renter loading a mattress into a 15-foot truck, chasing cheaper rent and a shorter commute somewhere beyond the state line. The data show that this migration is large, sustained, and…

Elon Musk once made a public point of divesting from bricks and mortar, vowing that he would “own no house” and styling himself as a billionaire who slept on friends’ couches and in a prefab near his rocket factory. Now he has quietly assembled a sprawling Texas compound, including a mansion in the Austin area,…

President Donald Trump is promising a dramatic reset of the U.S. housing market, vowing to stop Wall Street firms from buying single-family homes and positioning the move as a direct strike against rising rents and locked-out first-time buyers. The proposal targets large institutional investors that have spent years building portfolios of suburban houses, turning what…

Across the United States, fast-growing cities are on track to become unaffordable for the very residents who built them. By 2027, Realtor.com projections show home prices in several metros consuming far more than the traditional 30% of household income, pushing ownership out of reach for typical local earners. I look at nine cities where that…

Larry Ellison’s decision to part with a $45 million mansion on San Francisco’s Gold Coast fits a familiar pattern for one of tech’s most prolific real estate collectors, even if the specific sale is unverified based on available sources. What is clear is that Ellison has long treated property as a parallel arena to his…