Real Estate
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What Is a Mortgage Servicer, and How Do You Avoid a Shady One?
Your mortgage lender can sell the servicing of your loan to a different company. You can’t stop that, but you…
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Buying Houses Before Finding Spouses
Rachel Rodman always dreamed of owning her own home, but life kept getting in the way. She became a mother…
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Tommy Tune Lists a Penthouse on the Far East Side
The celebrated Broadway performer, director and choreographer is asking $2.3 million for the apartment at 414 East 52nd Street, one…
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The Best Markets for First-Time Home Buyers
A study ranks U.S. areas for younger buyers based on metrics like availability, affordability, job opportunities and local culture.
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For a Growing Number of Latinos, Home Buying Is a Family Affair
Many are becoming first-time and first-generation homeowners by pooling their family’s resources to buy as a unit.
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One Family’s Road to Building a House Despite the Obstacles
Randa Martin always wanted high ceilings. Her partner, Richard Lebehn, longed for a chef’s kitchen like the ones in all…
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How to Create the Best Kind of Cozy Space: a Room That’s Like a Hug
‘You can call it different things,’ said one designer, but it ‘all adds up to the same idea: You feel…
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Should You Consider Buying Your Childhood Home?
It might be a sensitive subject to bring up, but a path to homeownership for adult children could also make…
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$800,000 Homes in California
A recently renovated house in Yucca Valley, a three-bedroom home in Benicia and a one-bedroom condominium in Laguna Niguel.
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How Do I Evict My Roommates?
Even if your rental arrangement is off the books, tenants have legal rights that you need to consider.