Affordable Housing

The math is straightforward: a buyer priced out of Orange County can cross into Corona, pick up a single-family home with a yard, and accept a commute in exchange for ownership. That trade h...

The appeal of building your own home from a kit is simple: skip the general contractor, save tens of thousands, and end up with a house you assembled with your own hands. Younger buyers pric...

For years, construction 3D printing has occupied a narrow lane: single-story demonstration homes, small community projects, and the occasional two-story residence. The technology has generat...

A three-bedroom, two-bathroom home with a two-car garage in California can run $800,000 or more. The same home, brand new, in Princeton, Texas, is closing this month for $325,000, and that g...

The wood-frame, stucco-clad homes that dominate Southern California residential construction burned by the thousands last year. Concrete does not burn. The technology that once made concrete...

Many first-time buyers in New Jersey delay purchasing for years because they believe they need 20 percent down. According to Anastasia Cafiero, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Central who se...

Across Los Angeles County, the conversation around housing affordability has settled into a familiar shape: rents keep climbing, and the leap to homeownership feels further out of reach with...

Most first-time home buyers in the East Bay focus on one number: the purchase price. But in a market where home prices remain well above national averages, the monthly payment, and specifica...

Most conversations about Los Angeles real estate center on unaffordable coastal markets and residents leaving the state entirely. But not every buyer priced out of metro LA is heading to Tex...

The accessory dwelling unit market has quietly moved from a niche housing concept to a more mainstream solution. Affordability pressures, an aging demographic, and a wave of supportive local...

If you are shopping for a home in Michigan right now, you are probably watching mortgage rates. But veteran observers in the Lansing and Grand Rapids markets argue that a different number on...

The build-to-rent sector in Texas is entering a period of genuine transition. Institutional buyers are pulling back, distressed builder inventory is surfacing across master-planned communiti...

Michigan has long marketed itself on affordability, and for good reason. Home prices across the Lansing and Grand Rapids markets remain well below national averages, drawing first-time buyer...

The usual story about senior housing markets involves inventory, pricing, and interest rates. In Ocean County, New Jersey, one of the state’s densest concentrations of age-restricted c...

First-time buyers in Conway, Arkansas, are running out of options, and the problem is more structural than cyclical. The forces squeezing entry-level buyers are not temporary, and buyers hop...