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Holiday season sales aren’t solely the province of electronics, sweaters and $2 toasters. Some of the biggest discounts out there are on a surprising sector of goods: luxury homes. Some of the priciest homes on the market are offering deep discounts, many to the tune of several million dollars. And these real estate bargains aren’t [...]
It’s been nearly 400 years since the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. As during the first Thanksgiving feast celebrated there, Plymouth remains the site of much abundance. We present a gallery of homes that prosperous thanks-givers can buy right now in Plymouth.
Earlier this month, President Obama announced tweaks to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (or HARP), which was designed to help homeowners refinance underwater homes but so far had helped only 838,000 of the 5 million homeowners at whom it was aimed.
In the wake of Kim Kardashian’s divorce, there are a number of other fresh celebrity breakups that have resulted not only in broken hearts, but also in broken homes.
See how the 1 percent lives in nine of the most expensive homes for sale across the country.
From Kim Kardashian’s wails that she lost a $75,000 earring in the ocean, to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Dana Wilkey’s boasts that she dropped $25K on sunglasses, reality TV starlets seem to get a rush out of broadcasting how much they paid for their bling. In this way, they are contrarians — not their [...]
We marvel at the superstars of the sports world for their seemingly superhuman feats of athletic prowess, not to mention their supersized salaries. But right now, a number of athletic A-listers have put their homes up for sale, allowing us a voyueristic view of some of the best real estate money can buy.
For years, it seems like those who became wildly successful early eventually grew up, developed a drug habit and tried to collect as many mug shots they could by age 30. But Hollywood now has a coterie of former child stars who have bucked that trend, and many of them live and maintain amazing homes for themselves [...]
Reasonably enough, Americans hate almost everything about the real estate recession. Underwater owners hate that they can neither sell nor refinance, distressed homeowners and consumer advocates hate robo-signing, and just about everyone hates plummeting home values. They even strike fear in the hearts of the buyers who are taking advantage of them.
It’s actually cheaper to buy than rent in 74 percent of major U.S. cities, according to data from real estate search engine site Trulia. So as high rates of foreclosure continue to send home values down and rents up, there’s one group who stands to score a big win in these cheaper-to-own areas: buyers.
Even if this new era of Conspicuous Frugality has been imposed by an uber-tight credit market and upside-down home values, some of the new norms in homeowner behavior are pretty financially fabulous, if you ask me.
