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Fast Company's Zak Stone explores the U.S. metro-scape for where you'd go if you want to live somewhere with plentiful, accessible, well-maintained parks. According to land-conservation nonprofit The Trust for Public Land: Minneapolis and New York, in that order, followed by San Francisco...
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Looking for the cheapest places to live in the U.S.? Kiplinger's Michael DeSenne analyzes the Council for Community and Economic Research's calculations of living expenses in 307 urban areas, and ranks the Top 10.
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The latest housing data out of Phoenix shows that the market is normalizing: inventories have stopped falling and home sales are rising even as the share of properties sold to investors is declining. The Wall Street Journal's Nick Timiraos taps local market expert Mike Orr to delve beneath the...
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Fast Company's Zak Stone reports on new ways to tally traffic volume ... of bicyclists.
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Movoto's Randy Nelson has figured out how much time-and money-it would take to print a house the same size as yours. Spoiler: It's a lot.
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MarketWatch's Robert Schroeder reports that student loan debt has nearly doubled in the past five years, according to a congressional report released Tuesday, less than two weeks before interest rates on federally backed student loans are set to jump to 6.8% from 3.4%.
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Houzz contributor and architect John Dorman posts on how architects use a variety of ways to engage our senses, especially with light.
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The latest trend in one real estate market has homeowners looking up. Some are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for air rights, reports Heather Graf, KVUE TV.
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Atlantic Cities' Richard Florida looks at cities data that show that, for venture capital, the Bay Area remains at the top, but several cities are starting to catch up.
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Redfin's Tim Ellis posts on Redfin's latest tally of supplies of for-sale inventory in its market universe. Here's a line-up of metros with the biggest deltas, up or down, for supply. Demand seems to be holding up as well.
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Bloomberg/ BusinessWeek's Nadja Brandt reports that California home prices rose by the most in three decades as a shortage of houses on the market spurred competition among buyers, per the California Association of Realtors.
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The architectural style of a house can have a big impact on its value. Take a look at the most expensive home styles in the U.S. MarketWatch taps Trulia data to spin up a top 10 rankings pegged to homes' architectural genre.
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It must have been a bad year for Dads. For the first time in four years, the gap between what Americans plan to spend on Father's Day and what they plan to spend on Mother's Day widened. The Wall Street Journal's Phil Izzo runs the numbers. The WJS is a paid-subscription site.
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Americans in general should take a page from home builders. But they don't. Fewer of us are looking ahead to this time next year, imagining we'll be better off. Why? Uncertainty about jobs remains, and certainty about higher taxes gets clearer.
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Tech jobs are abundant in parts of the nation outside Silicon Valley. Here's where they are, per Business Insider's Julie Bort, with data from job hunting site Brite.
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The Economist looks at a climate change paradox: Even as seas have risen over the past century, Americans have rushed to build homes near the beach. Storms that lash the modern American coastline cause more economic damage than their predecessors because there is more to destroy.
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Move over, Las Vegas-there's a new capital of sin in America. We go Old Testament to find which cities best embody the Seven Deadly Sins.
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House kits aren't always affordable, but a few kit suppliers have come up with ways to reduce total construction costs.
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Proto Homes markets its concept house as a product that can change with lifestyles and tastes.
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Despite witnessing the housing boom and bust, millennials still see home ownership as an investment.