The New York Times has just released an updated rent vs buy calculator that factors in estimates of how your home values and investment income would appreciate over time, in addition to a variety of other homeownership and renting costs. NYT...
We were sure this headline was ripped from the Onion. But it’s for real in Bristol, VA, where a twentysomething single who lives at home is hunting for her first house. She’s looked at 9 or 10 properties and is “getting a little exhausted”...
We enjoyed this fascinating portrait of a celebrity renovator in the New York Times. Ellen Degeneres describes her education over 25 years of real estate and renovating adventures. Here are 10 great insights into an ultra high net worth property...
The “turnkey” home now has a whole new meaning: the house and everything in it. Furnishings, silverware, art, toothbrushes. Well, maybe not toothbrushes. Buyers with multiple properties don’t want the hassle of outfitting a...
We chuckled over photographer Scott Hampton’s photo parody of the SF housing market. He even posted one on Craigslist, and it’s still there. $5000 / 33ft² – Waterfront Condo (downtown / civic / van ness) Waterfront condo in the...
Forget the tired comparisons to New York. (Yes, both have outrageously expensive real estate and an abundance of wealth.) San Francisco is the new Palo Alto. “Today’s San Francisco is much more of a company town. Go into any bar in San...
“Charm school for real estate brokers,” the New York Times calls it. “For many years, the field of real estate didn’t change much,” Laura Scott, a business development coach, told the NYT, “and the broker was mostly an...