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Homeowners Are Ripping Open Reassessment Notices in Total Disbelief to Find Their Property Taxes Jumped by Thousands of Dollars in a Single Year, and Local Assessors Say the Furious Backlash Calls Are Nonstop
Home values climbed sharply in most parts of the country over the past several years. Property tax bills are now catching up to that increase all at once for many […]
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Starter Homes Are Being Built at an Almost Comically Tiny Fraction of the Rate They Once Were Decades Ago, and Builders Admit the Math Behind Them Simply Stopped Making Any Sense
The starter home, once the default entry point into homeownership, has all but disappeared from what builders actually put up each year. Construction of new entry-level, smaller-footprint homes has fallen […]
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More American Households Now Include a Grown Adult Child Living Back Home With Their Parents Than at Almost Any Point Ever Recorded, and Census Data Reveals Exactly Why It Keeps Getting Worse
The image of a fresh graduate moving back into a childhood bedroom used to carry a stigma. It has become common enough that it barely qualifies as remarkable anymore: more […]
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Homeowners Who Installed a Tiny Energy Monitor Right Next to Their Breaker Panel Say It Instantly Changed How Their Whole Family Uses Electricity, Almost Overnight and Without Warning
Most homeowners’ relationship with their electric bill begins and ends with the total at the bottom of the monthly statement. A small category of whole-home energy monitors, wired directly into […]
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Security Researchers Found a Way to Open Some of the Most Popular Smart Garage Door Openers From Anywhere in the World, and the Company Refused to Fix It Even After a Federal Warning
Years after a security researcher first demonstrated that certain smart garage door openers could be opened remotely from anywhere in the world, the underlying lesson has not lost its relevance: […]
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Homeowners Are Quietly Canceling Their Video Doorbell Subscriptions After Finally Doing the Math on How Much Money They Have Paid Just to Watch Their Own Front Porch
A video doorbell’s hardware is usually a one-time purchase. The subscription that unlocks its actual useful features is not, and a growing number of homeowners are doing the math on […]
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Buyers and Sellers Are Increasingly Hiring Their Own Rival Inspectors for the Exact Same House and Somehow Walking Away With Two Wildly Contradictory Reports
Home inspections were designed to give buyers and sellers a shared, objective picture of a property’s condition. Increasingly, they are doing the opposite: buyers and sellers are hiring their own […]
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Nearly Half of First Time Homebuyers Are Now Quietly Leaning on Money From Their Parents Just to Cover a Down Payment, and the Share Keeps Climbing Every Year
The bank of mom and dad has quietly become one of the most important lenders in the American housing market. A growing share of first-time buyers say they could not […]
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Homebuyers Are Taking So Long to Decide That Homes Are Sitting on the Market Longer Than They Have in Six Years, and Redfin Says Buyers Have Gotten Almost Impossible to Please
Homes are sitting on the market longer, and the buyers looking at them are taking their time in a way that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. The […]
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Homeowners Keep Furiously Battling Automated Home Valuation Tools Over Numbers That Are Wildly, Sometimes Laughably off From What Appraisers Actually Find Walking Through That Exact Same House
Automated home value estimates have become the first number most homeowners see when they wonder what their house is worth — and increasingly, the number they argue with. Tools like […]