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Should you rent or buy a home? Here’s how much rental pricing has gone up compared to ownership cost in major Indian cities
Renting costs in Indian cities are rising rapidly, making homeownership a potentially smarter finan…
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JD Vance said migrants are the reason it's so expensive to rent or buy homes. He's wrong.
Many housing experts, including Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather, say the nation's inadequa…
Alcynna Lloyd,Eliza Relman
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I bought my dream home, but the difficult process and higher cost sometimes make me wish I'd stuck with renting
An interior design whiz was excited to apply her skills to a place she owned. But buying and renova…
Jordan Pandy
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I had to rent my house for extra income, and it forced me to declutter. I'm happier because of it.
When I had to rent my house on Airbnb, a photographer helped me stage it. Seeing things through her…
Elana Rabinowitz
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When Bay Area rent got too expensive, I bought a house in the mountains. Living here is a dream, but I'm uncertain about the future.
Katie Sarna paid $1,450 for her room in a San Francisco apartment. When she decided to buy, she bou…
Perri Ormont Blumberg
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My 56-year-old mom lives rent-free in our house. She contributes by doing chores and childcare, but communicating expectations can be hard.
Multiple generations living in one house can benefit everyone involved, from saving money to childc…
Emylee Williams
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Your landlord might be using an algorithm to raise rents. If Kamala Harris has her way, that could be banned.
Kamala Harris wants to crack down on landlords who use rent-setting algorithms to allegedly collude…
Eliza Relman
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We kept losing out on homes and were sick of renting. So we tricked out a $4,500 van to live in for the summer.
Ian and Mary Clare Armstrong were being pushed by their realtor to go $200,000 over budget. They pa…
Dan Latu
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An Iowa basic income project gives low-income residents $500 a month. They say it helps them make rent and buy food.
Iowa lawmakers recently voted to ban basic income programs. But one such program says it'll continu…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Small apartments are in, and it's causing rents in new buildings to drop
However, the pace of new construction of single-family and multi-family homes has started to slow t…
Eliza Relman
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Biden announces plan to cap rent increases at 5% for half of American rental households
A record number of renters can't afford their housing costs. Biden wants to discourage big rent inc…
Eliza Relman,Dan Latu
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After getting laid off back-to-back, I now depend on my mom to pay rent
I was the youngest of my siblings and my mom worked hard to spoil me. When I was employed, I made s…
Tonja Renée Stidhum
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We rented our house on Airbnb for 15 years. It was so much work that we had to stop.
I started renting my home in 2007 before Airbnb existed. It's not passive, and I eventually sold th…
Dana McMahan
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I'm a multimillionaire who chooses to rent rather than buy a house. I'm glad I'm not wasting money on a mortgage.
Tori Dunlap, a 29-year-old millionaire and financial expert, explains why she opts to rent rather t…
Jane Zhang
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Renting will be cheaper than buying a home for years to come, real estate firm says
"The disparity between mortgage payments and rental costs presents a substantial hurdle for aspirin…
Yuheng Zhan
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Budget 2024: More affordable housing, lowered rent TDS — here’s what will change for the housing sector this year
Union Budget 2024 delivers massive boost with 3 crore affordable houses and tax cuts. Here's all th…
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A US Olympic athlete couldn't pay her rent, so Flavor Flav and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian stepped in to help
A 2020 survey of 491 athletes from 48 countries by the athletes' rights group Global Athletes found…
Amanda Goh
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He won the NYC housing lottery after applying more than 60 times. Now, he pays $2,300 in rent for his Brooklyn apartment.
Competition for the New York affordable-housing lottery is stiff: There are about 450 applications …
Amanda Goh
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Millennials have been priced out of buying homes, and are venting that they can't afford rent either
TikTok is full of videos of millennials being blindsided by massive increases in rent that they can…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Million-dollar income households are renting — not buying — more than ever
There were about 4,500 households with incomes more than $1 million that were renting in 2022 — fou…