Hating Homeownership
The perception that housing is a bad investment is influenced too much by recent events.
View ArticleTrade of the Day: Buy Towers of London
The Trade of the Day is to buy towers of London and sell New York real estate; London offices rent for $982 a square foot, compared with just $697 in Manhattan.
View ArticleHarsh Reality of Home Flipping
Home flippers bought houses that needed some TLC, fixed them up, then sold them for a profit. They mostly went extinct during the housing crash.
View ArticleRent Is No Way to Save for Retirement
Forcing renters to save won't work, especially if landlords are supposed to make it happen.
View ArticleUnskewing Manhattan Real Estate
The numbers showing that 80 percent of all Manhattan real-estate deals are for cash don't hold up.
View ArticleD.C. Should Stop Coddling Tenants
If you have a coveted commodity like a rent-controlled apartment, why would you rent it out to someone who might cause you trouble when better credit risks are lining up to apply?
View ArticleThe Housing Market's Uneven Recovery: Ritholtz Chart
Why are some cities recovering more quickly than others?
View ArticleBoomer Housing Bust Ain't Happening Yet
Those greedy geezers aren't moving into new condos -- yet.
View ArticleAirbnb Is a Risky Neighbor
Airbnb has a good business model with a bad legal problem in cities such as New York.
View ArticleGoodbye, Malls of America
Shopping malls are dying around the U.S. as more people shop online.
View ArticleA Mortgage That Feeds Your Piggy Bank
Why we're not crazy to go from a 30-year to a 15-year fixed mortgage.
View ArticleDon't Blame Obama for Washington's Gentrification
Washington is hardly the only city with sharply rising incomes during the Obama era.
View ArticleThe World's Best, and Worst, Housing Markets: Ritholtz Chart
What are the best markets in the world for purchasing a home?
View ArticleAnother Look at Underwater Mortgages: Ritholtz Chart
The latest report from RealtyTrac may be worse than it seems.
View ArticleThe 'Poor Door' to Outrage
A separate entrance for cheaper units -- hardly unheard of in Manhattan real estate -- is in part a consequence of the very inclusionary policies that New York is trying to enforce.
View ArticleHomebuying Gets a Housecleaning
Zillow and other real-estate Web sites are displacing the National Association of Realtors as the source of insight and information about the U.S. housing market.
View ArticleHousing Data Is Old and Moldy
Data to gauge the housing market is hobbled by methodological problems, many of them related to seasonality and the lag from the time a contract is signed to when a sale is recorded.
View ArticleTrailer Homes Aren't Just for Millionaires
Would you ever consider living in a trailer park? Would you ever consider paying a million dollars to live there?
View ArticleDon't Let That Fancy New House Fool You
There are good house flippers out there, but there are also people who cut corners on the stuff you can’t see or won’t think about.
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