If you live on the east coast, you probably (hopefully) were tempted to telecommute today, and you might have to work from home on Monday, too. Staying off the roads when weather is bad is one of the great luxuries that the digital age has brought. It’s also the [Keep reading]
Great hipster places to live. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Rio De Janeiro. Toronto. And … Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh? Get used to seeing the Steel City on a lot of best-places-to-live lists. Pittsburgh neighborhood Lawrenceville, until recently dulled by empty industrial buildings, made that surprise entry into a Business Insider list of the best [Keep reading]
Elle Adkins has lived in Oklahoma City all her adult life, so she has a different perspective on the once-sleepy, dusty capital city that’s become a boomtown. “It used to be dreadful, and now we have all this new and exciting stuff,” she said. Credit.com recently wrote about the top 10 most affordable [Keep reading]
If you are looking to start over, Raleigh is a pretty good place to start. This week, Danielle Bingham, 52, moved into a lovely 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom house on a half-acre just outside Raleigh, N.C. — a step she couldn’t have imagined a decade ago. She paid $175,000 for the 2,000-square-foot [Keep reading]
Not long ago, Cara was sharing a $3,200 rental payment with roommates. Today, she makes a $770 monthly mortgage payment to own a home that’s about the same size. What happened? She moved, of course. From Washington D.C. to Buffalo, N.Y. Recently, Credit.com shared a list of America’s least expensive [Keep reading]
American families are stressed and squeezed by economic math that works against them. For example, as I wrote recently, homes in zip codes with at least one above-average school cost twice as much as homes in zips without a good school. I’ll repeat this message because it’s so important: the [Keep reading]
If you want to know why home prices are out of whack in America, look at our lousy schools. One oft-overlooked element of home pricing is the scarcity of good public schools in America. Overlooked by everyone except young families, of course, who know quite well how much good “free” schools cost. [Keep reading]
Life in up-and-coming cities like Raleigh, Jacksonville and Memphis might not be quite as inexpensive as you’ve heard. At least not if you are a renter. It’s another reason you might feel Restless. Recently, Credit.com examined markets in America with the highest (and lowest) rates of housing-poor residents. Generally, analysts [Keep reading]
One good measure of affordability is this: How much of your paycheck do you spend on housing every month? Experts have traditionally pegged 30% as an optimal amount — people who spend more than that might be considered “housing poor” — though that number is fairly random, and the real answer is [Keep reading]
Further evidence that the housing market is still broken: Even as home prices rise, first-time home buyers keep disappearing. In fact, first-timers now represent the smallest percentage of home buyers in three decades, according to a report issued Thursday by The National Association of Realtors. How can prices rise while an incredibly [Keep reading]
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