A millennial couple who moved from Baltimore to Florida explain why they bought a $65,000 mobile home as their starter house

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Jess Carpenter with her husband, Christian, and baby, Heath, outside their mobile home in Sarasota, Florida.
Jess Carpenter with her husband, Christian, and baby, Heath, outside their mobile home in Sarasota, Florida.

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US home prices jump another 5% on tumbling mortgage rates and tight supply

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A for sale sign in front of a house.
US house prices ticked up another 5.2% in November, according to data from CoreLogic.

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Bad news, Beijing: Real-estate booms like the one in China nearly always end with a major banking crisis

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People commute in front of the under-construction Guangzhou Evergrande football stadium in Guangzhou, China's southern Guangdong province on September 17, 2021.

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The value of the housing market in America's largest metros has surged to $23 trillion

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Homes in a neighborhood in Missouri

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America's offices are in 'uncharted territory' as vacancies hit an all-time high

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A photo of the New York City Skyline.
A view of the Manhattan Skyline with the Empire State Building in the center.

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Millennials are moving to 'the most boring places in the world'

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Person carrying moving boxes, departing a bustling city, transitioning to a quaint farmhouse with an old-fashioned Water Pumping Windmill
The housing market and aging are turning millennials into what they swore they'd never become: their suburban parents.

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Student-loan borrowers are taking on more debt, and it's not all tuition — blame skyrocketing housing costs

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People walk by Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus on March 14, 2022 in Berkeley, California.
People walk by Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus on March 14, 2022 in Berkeley, California.

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Why Jeff Bezos might be loading up on homes in Miami

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Jeff Bezos enjoying a boat ride.

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A new tiny-home community near San Antonio is raising eyebrows for marketing pint-sized houses for over $140,000

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The Elm Trails tiny home community is near San Antonio, Texas.
The Elm Trails tiny home community is near San Antonio, Texas.

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NY now wants Trump to pay back $370M in civil fraud-trial damages: how that breaks down

Tech Insider : Politics
Donald Trump, left. Letitia James, right.
Donald Trump speaking at the NRA convention in Houston, TX, on May 27, 2022. New York Attorney General Letitia James, right, speaks in Washington, DC on Nov. 12, 2019.

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