When the real estate market imploded and ushered in the Great Recession, one of the biggest casualties was the size of our …
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Housing Market Better Than It Looks
Home prices rose 0.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis in March, according to new numbers from the S&P/Case-Shiller index. But four cities showed worse results in March than they had in February, with Atlanta notably down 0.4% over …
Would You Live Here? Real Life Haunted Homes For Sale
Haunted houses have been scaring us since Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher” in 1839. Almost every city has a big old house that children — and some grownups — think is haunted. Many kids earned their …
10 Things That Are Actually Getting Cheaper
We live in a time when the costs of things like gas and gold have soared, just as a laundry list of everyday expenses such as coffee, rent, health care, used cars, and bacon are approaching or have already reached all-time high …
More Housing Market Blues?
There’s more bad news out about housing today. The prices of homes fell in more than 75% of U.S. cities in the first quarter, according to the National Association of Realtors. The data is stoking a new wave of bearishness on when the housing market will bottom. But as Stephen Gandel points out in yesterday’s blog, odds of a …
