Basketball court, home cinema – but no booby traps: Home Alone house on sale for $5.25m
The house in Winnetka, Illinois still features the staircase which Macaulay Culkin rode down on a sledge, but the swinging paint cans have since been removed
April 2024
Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?
Housing costs and homelessness are on the rise in California. In the Austrian capital, people of all income levels live in subsidised housing – and more is being built
January 2024
America's dirty divide
How a Black Miami neighborhood became ‘ground zero for climate gentrification’
A documentary, Razing Liberty Square, examines the plight of families in Liberty City as developers ‘revitalize’ community on desirable higher land
December 2023
Business live
UK house prices rise for third month; factory downturn eases – as it happened
Nationwide reports house prices only fell 2% in year to November, and rose during the month, as mortgage rates fall
August 2023
Through the roof
How a Craigslist scam led me to home ownership at age 28
I finally found a perfect little house in the countryside that was both affordable and accessible – but was it too good to be true?
Through the roof
Most US millennials finally own homes – and it’s not thanks to their parents
A wave of young adults bought their first home with the help of student loan pauses and remote work – but will the boom last?
Housing costs making UK households much poorer than US peers, study finds
Report says wealth gap would be wider if not for over-priced or ineffective services such as healthcare in US
May 2023
Through the roof
The US city where ‘desert palaces’ are sprouting as affordable homes dwindle
Durham, North Carolina, is one of the US’s fastest-growing cities. As house prices boom, can the city prevent the displacement of lower-income residents?
Through the roof
Why we’re publishing a series on America’s housing crunch
House prices have spiked and well-priced rentals are increasingly hard to come by. How has the dream of an affordable home become so hard to reach?
Through the roof
How finding a home in America became so absurdly expensive
With US house prices soaring due to increased demand and limited stock, it’s a great time to be a homeowner – but huge numbers of home buyers are being locked out of the market
March 2023
Times are a-changin’ in Greenwich Village – Bob Dylan couldn’t afford to live here
Letter: The neighbourhood in lower Manhattan has become a magnet for bankers, brokers and trust-fund tragedies, says Robert Rosen
March 2022
They bought their first homes during Covid – and now they regret it
For two years, the US has seen a home-buying frenzy – but once the ink dries on the property deeds, drawbacks zoom into focus
September 2021
I want to buy a house in Philadelphia. Does that make me an evil gentrifier?
Arwa Mahdawi
My wife and I can’t afford to stay in New York – and our recent house hunting has brought on an existential crisis, writes Arwa Mahdawi
May 2021
Black homeowner says her appraisal doubled after she didn’t declare her race
Carlette Duffy has filed housing discrimination complaints, accusing appraisers of violating fair housing laws
May 2017
Project Syndicate economists
Why help to buy your home is no help at all to the economy
Jeffrey Frankel
State subsidies to promote home ownership is not always a good thing – it hikes public debt, cuts labour mobility and often boosts prices not ownership levels
June 2016
How we live now
One roof, three homes: America catches on to multigenerational living – video
Three homes under one roof gives this big American family companionship, dignity and a nicer house than they could afford on their own
December 2015
Turkey tops global house price index despite turmoil
Prices have risen 18.9% over the past 12 months, according to Knight Frank, but 2016 should see reduced pressures on markets across the world
November 2015
'No corner was cut, nothing was too expensive': the strange story of the most expensive private listing in America
Robert Pereira had a vision to build a ‘spectacular’ home for his family, but never moved in. With $3m dollars in gold leaf on the property, what’s not to like?
September 2015
The great global house price quiz: can you guess these property values?
As house prices skyrocket in many cities around the world, try your luck at identifying the asking prices for these 10 very different dwellings
February 2014
Stop rich overseas investors from buying up UK homes, report urges
Rightwing thinktank proposes curbs on non-EU residents to open up more of housing market to Britons
