I bought a duplex as my first home. I still have a mortgage, but I only pay around $900 a month and have no regrets.

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Raroha and her duplex in New Jersey.

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There's a conservative 'great migration' from blue states — and one place is the big winner

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Signs outside Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's office in West Columbia, South Carolina in February, 2024.

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Mortgage rates spike above 7% for the first time this year as the market adjusts to delayed Fed cuts

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Homebuyers signing a mortgage.

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Commercial real estate foreclosures have spiked 117% over the past year

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The case for ditching your real-estate agent when buying a home is gaining momentum

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Squatters have taken over empty restaurants and offices in London, including a Gordon Ramsay restaurant and 20th Century Fox's former HQ

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A view of Twentieth Century House, in Soho, London, in November 2022

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The new first rule of home buying: fire your realtor

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The best part of (briefly) having an agent was realizing just how much I had already figured out on my own.

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Last summer, when I told my then-girlfriend that I had just hired a real-estate agent to help me buy an apartment, her response annoyed me: "Sounds like a scam."

A 33-year-old man turned a Japanese farmhouse into a mountainside Airbnb retreat for $25,000 — here's how he did it

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Xian Jie Lee runs an Airbnb business in rural Japan.

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I moved my family down south to Florida over 7 years ago. I mostly love it, but life here has been filled with surprises.

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I don't regret moving my family to Florida and we've enjoyed living here.

Terri Peters

A millennial who moved to Canada for the quality of life shares why he wants to go back to Texas — and why he regrets not waiting to relocate until later in life

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A millennial who moved from the South to Montreal says the quality of life is great but that he wants to return to his home state of Texas.

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