housing
Bubble Watch: Chinese Property Edition
Hamilton Nolan · 10/22/13 02:22PMBoom! What Was That? The Real Estate Boom, Booming
Hamilton Nolan · 10/10/13 01:42PMDo You Own the Rights to the Land Under Your House? Maybe Not
Hamilton Nolan · 10/09/13 02:01PMThis Megabank Lawyer Pays Lower Rent Than You For No Good Reason
John Cook · 09/17/13 03:17PMThere's a brief and enraging—to New York City's renting class, at least—aside in Constance Rosenblum's Sunday New York Times Real Estate piece about committed couples who live apart. In describing Michael Kenny and Ingrid Doyle's two-apartment love affair, Rosenblum mentions that Kenny, a 62-year-old "lawyer with Citigroup," has for years held on to his "rent-stabilized two-bedroom in a rehabilitated tenement on West 116th Street in South Harlem...for which he pays under $2,000 a month." Let me put that in context.
Hamilton Nolan · 09/11/13 03:37PM
New Houses Are Bigger Than Ever
Hamilton Nolan · 08/27/13 10:29AMA Housing Crisis Solution Sure to Panic Wall Street
Hamilton Nolan · 07/30/13 02:07PMThere is no better illustration of the disconnect between our economy's winners and losers than the California real estate market. The winners are bidding up Silicon Valley home prices and resurrecting the house-flipping craze. The losers are just trying to hold their cities together under a wave of mortgage defaults. Is there a solution?
Hottest New Place to Live: Mom's Couch
Hamilton Nolan · 07/23/13 01:41PMWay Too Many Americans Spend Most of Their Income on Rent
Hamilton Nolan · 06/27/13 10:47AMFeds Find Someone Weak and Poor Enough to Nail for Housing Meltdown
John Cook · 06/12/13 04:54PMThe Next Housing Bubble Is About To Pop All Over You
Ken Layne · 05/28/13 03:47PMWarnings of the Next Housing Bubble Have Already Started
Hamilton Nolan · 05/16/13 09:07AMHere's Why You Don't Ask Children What They Want in a Home
Hamilton Nolan · 05/10/13 10:57AMIs Building Luxury Housing on the Playgrounds of Public Housing the Worst Idea Ever? Yes. Yes It Is.
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 02/10/13 04:00PMApartment Hunting and 'Kitchen Privileges'
Mallory Ortberg · 02/09/13 01:30PMIf you live in a city of a certain size and do not own a home, chances are that you have had to spend a not-insubstantial portion of your life scanning Craigslist and other ad services looking for a place to rent. If you are not a particularly wealthy person, chances are that you have come across a great many listings in your price range that employ the crushing phrase "kitchen privileges."
George Lucas Exacts Revenge on Snooty Rich People by Making Them Live with Poor People
Caity Weaver · 05/09/12 07:35PM'Occupy McMansions,' Proclaim Sell-Out College Kids
Lauri Apple · 11/13/11 04:03PMSo You're Living Back Home With the 'Rents
Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/11 01:42PMHappy college graduation, and welcome back home! It happens. These days, more than ever: "5.9 million Americans between 25 and 34 years of age-nearly a quarter of whom have bachelor's degrees-live with their parents, a significant increase from 4.7 million before the recession," according to the WSJ.