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March 19, 2012
WSJ.com
Instead of moving his mother into an assisted-living apartment three years ago, Eli Portnoy rented condos for both of them, two floors apart, at Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa in Miami Beach, Fla.
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January 22, 2012
WSJ.com
When Kathleen Marin and her boyfriend first moved to the Baltimore area in 2008, their two-bedroom town house cost them $1,100 a month. But over the next 2½ years, as demand flooded the rental market in their area, the landlord gradually ...
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January 22, 2012
WSJ.com
A new way to help boost your credit history and score: Factor in your rent. Last December, credit-reporting company Experian started including rent-payment history in its credit reports, says Brannan Johnston, vice president and managing ...
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December 12, 2011
WSJ.com
Jeannette Boccini thought she had found a great renter, someone who would take extra good care of her townhouse. Then the nightmare began. The tenant repeatedly harassed the neighbors, complained that the wood chips in the community ...
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November 27, 2011
WSJ.com
As another year of the housing downturn ends, some are wondering if it finally is more advantageous to buy instead of rent, given discounted home prices and mortgage rates near historical lows.
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November 12, 2011
WSJ.com
The pitch is compelling: Buy a vacant house or apartment building and rent it out to some of the throngs of Americans who have lost their homes to foreclosure. With interest rates near record lows and property values still slumping, getting ...
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September 10, 2011
WSJ.com
Traditional investments are delivering low returns, and home prices are at bargain levels. Is it time to consider buying some rental housing?
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September 4, 2011
WSJ.com
Last year, Kelley and Jeff Barton bought their first vacation retreat in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., a ski-resort area about 350 miles from their home in Seal Beach, Calif.
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August 11, 2011
MarketWatch
An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the day on which the Obama administration said it’s considering options to sell or rent foreclosed properties owned by the U.S. government.
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June 13, 2011
WSJ.com
Thinking of renting out your home for a short period this summer? If so, it might be helpful to familiarize yourself with what tax experts refer to as the 14-day rule.
May 9, 2011
SmartMoney.com
As the owner of several rental villas in Italy, Lisa Byrne is no stranger to investment properties. So when the San Franciscan saw a growing vacation market in her own backyard, she snapped up a fixer-upper for under $2 million. Though ...
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April 30, 2011
WSJ.com
Five years into the real-estate bust, the market for single-family homes seems weaker than ever. According to the most recent S&P/Case-Shiller housing data, prices fell 3.3% nationwide in February from a year earlier.
April 7, 2011
SmartMoney.com
House prices are still tanking in many parts of the country, mortgage rates are inching up, and job growth is subpar. So what are some homebuyers doing? They're buying even more home—as in two-, three- and four-family homes—and playing ...
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March 7, 2011
WSJ.com
Apartment giant UDR Inc. is entering the Manhattan rental market with the $260.8 million purchase of a 23-story converted Financial District building that once housed Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
February 22, 2011
SmartMoney.com
Freaked by the housing market, more would-be home buyers are opting for rentals – driving rents up along the way. But it's not just rising rents that new renters have to worry about. A handful of new costs could make renting less than ...
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