Welcome to the golden age for rich renters

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Gold apartment buildings with 'For Rent' signs and a sign reading '2 Months Free' with money falling
More and more Americans with a taste for the finer things in life and a little cash to spare are turning to the apartment market, where there are discounts galore.

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A New Yorker turned her one-bedroom apartment into a colorful dream space with 'dopamine decor'

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A side-by-side of an apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows. On the left, it's bare, but in the second, it's filled with colorful paint and furniture.
Maitri Mody embraced "dopamine decor" in her rental apartment.

Maitri Mody

Downtown Los Angeles is bustling with new residents. Not so much with office workers, though.

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Los Angeles, California, at night
Downtown Los Angeles.

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Check out Taylor Swift's $100 million real estate portfolio, with houses from Nashville to Beverly Hills

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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is often photographed leaving her townhouse in the Tribeca neighborhood in New York City.

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Take a look at the revolutionary housing developments Canada's First Nations are building on ancestral land

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Aerial rendering of the future Sen̓áḵw development in downtown Toronto
The Sen̓áḵw development in central Vancouver

Courtesy of the Squamish Nation

Landlords have a secret weapon in the war over high rents

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How landlords use algorithms to jack up your rent.
Big-time apartment owners have a secret weapon: a software that helps property managers to help them set rents and juice their profits

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Canada's First Nations are building the densest neighborhood in the country by reclaiming their ancestral land and defying NIMBYs

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A rendering of the Sen̓áḵw development in Vancouver, Canada.
A rendering of the Sen̓áḵw development in Vancouver, Canada.

Courtesy of the Squamish Nation

'Shark Tank' star Barbara Corcoran once made $1.2 million offloading 88 'dumpy' apartments in under 3 hours by treating them like puppies for sale

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"Shark Tank" star Barbara Corcoran.

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A tiny, 115-square-foot apartment in NYC without a bathroom is renting for $1,200, and it shows just how wild the market is right now

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Two New York City apartment buildings
The size and lack of amenities in a NYC studio apartment has Instagram commenters up in arms.

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The key to happiness might be living within walking distance of a coffee shop

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Circus Cooperative Cafe is an employee-owned coffee shop, at 31 Putnam Avenue in Cambridge, MA.
Circus Cooperative Cafe is an employee-owned coffee shop in Cambridge, MA.

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