As online booking through sites such as Airbnb and HomeAway makes it easier to rent out a vacation home, Lake Tahoe finds itself facing an emotional fight over the use of its neighborhoods.
People trying to escape soaring rents in U.S. cities face a cruel reality: home prices are going up, too. Still, many potential homeowners are finding that as expensive as it is to buy a house, now...
Kairos Ventures, a venture-capital fund focused on fixing problems plaguing the middle class, is launching a new company called Rhino. Through Rhino, renters can pay a small monthly fee in lieu of a...
Mail Online
| 2/21/2018
| Stewart Paterson For Mailonline
A woman who lived with a landlord for free in exchange for sex said she is 'grateful' to have not been raped. A shocking new documentary has revealed the scale of landlords offering up tenancies in...
Amazon has narrowed its search for the site of its next headquarters, dubbed HQ2, to 20 cities. Amazon HQ2 would have great economic impact on the city it chooses, potentially lowering unemployment,...
HomeShare, a startup based in San Francisco, converts living rooms in above-market-rate buildings into bedrooms so tenants can save on rent. The company pockets a cut of the rent, like a finder's...
Some potential renters in California meet an unusual assistant when they show up for a tour of their new dream home — a robot realtor named “Zenny” that gives a tour of the house, wirelessly...
The number of ‘silver renters’ will treble to almost a million as people are leaving it too late to buy their first home. Private rental household in England where the occupant is aged 65 or older...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Cities such as San Francisco with some of the highest rents in the nation are also places where renters need to have a high credit score to move in, according to a study...
Central Park South is the most expensive rental neighborhood in New York City. The neighborhood's median asking rent is $6,500 a month. Hotel - Row - Accommodations - Condos - Co-ops Once known as...
A new survey conducted by ApartmentList.com recently found that Americans, despite historically low unemployment levels and surging stock indices which would both seem to suggest that 'everything is...
LONGBOAT KEY — When an Indiana couple arrived at their Longboat Key Airbnb rental last month, they found something in the bedroom they didn't expect. A hidden camera.
Young Australians are increasingly likely to live most of their lives in high-density rented accommodation – and that’s not necessarily such a bad thing. That was one of the more controversial...
NY Daily News
| 6/6/2017
| Catherina Gioino, Greg B. Smith
When David Sans applied for a $722-a-month two-bedroom in a luxury Manhattan apartment tower that includes taxpayer-subsidized affordable units, he claimed a full-time salary of $24,745.
However, cautious renters may not be making the best decision for their long-term happiness. Renters' top regret was wishing they had bought instead of renting (41 percent), according to a recent...
The new ordinance comes as Seattle has become the fastest-growing big city in the nation and studies show that people on the move vote at lower rates. By Daniel Beekman Landlords - Tenants -...
The U.S. rental crisis is easing, but nearly half of renters are still paying too much for their housing, according to a study being released Friday by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing...
A growing proportion of Australian households depend on the private rental sector for accommodation. This growth has occurred despite substantial insecurity of tenure under the law, unlike other...
No one wants to fall behind on rent, and being evicted for lack of payment would be a catastrophic event for the 40 percent of Americans who rent their home. Presenting today as part of the Disrupt...
It is now official that the United States has turned into a renter’s paradise. Think that is hyperbole? Fifty-two of the 100 largest cities in the U.S. are now majority renter in terms of household...
During his 1928 election campaign, President Herbert Hoover defined the 'American Dream' as "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage." And while the chickens and cars (courtesy of a massive...
Detroit was once known as a city where a working-class family could afford to own a home. Now it’s a city of renters. Just 49 percent of Motor City households were homeowners in 2015, down from 55...
RENTAL prices are about to soar even higher in Melbourne, but people are already on the brink and living in dodgy conditions just to be close to the city. People have been so desperate for cheaper...
Mail Online
| 2/1/2017
| Ashleigh Davis For Daily Mail Australia
Think you have bad housemates? Think again. A group of Australians have shared stomach-turning stories about people they've lived with - including one man who came back from holidays to find his...
From complicated setups and access to wiring, a lot of smart home automation is simply off limits to renters. There are still lots of devices available that you can take when the time comes to pick...
London-based startup RentersUnion has created what it’s hoping will be a socially useful chatbot, pitching their web-based bot as a robot replacement for (expensive) housing lawyers.
Tenants gobbled up more than 33 million square feet of Manhattan office space in 2016, pushing leasing activity up 5.5 percent year-over-year, according to a new report from Colliers International.
Renters have long struggled with soaring rents in some of the top housing markets in the US. In San Francisco, it’s called the “Housing Crisis” because middle-class households, such as teachers, can...
The new law requires landlords to rent their housing units to qualified applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. So how will the policy work, and will it succeed in reducing discrimination?...
Following the subprime mortgage crisis from 2007-2009, the United States has seen a slow but noticeable recovery for the housing market but has left behind much of the middle-class.
Mail Online
| 6/1/2016
| Charlie Moore For Mailonline
Beach hut renters are being driven out of a holiday hotspot after being ‘abused’ by angry locals opposed to ‘garden sheds plonked on promenade’. Sun-seekers in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset have been...