The housing market capped off its worst year of sales since 1995. Here's how affordability, inventory, and demographics have changed in 3 decades.

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The housing market of 2023 differed dramatically from that of 1995.

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America's Zoomtowns are suffering from some nasty growing pains

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Two people playing catch in a yard while a modern city forms behind them
America's midsize cities exploded over the past few years. Now residents, new and old, are fighting over housing, traffic, and local culture.

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See inside the biggest modern home in the US, a 105,000-square-foot megamansion in Los Angeles that sold for $126 million to Fashion Nova's billionaire CEO

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a sprawling white mansion, The One Bel Air, sits atop a short green hill
The One Bel Air, the biggest modern home in the US, sold in 2022 to Fashion Nova CEO Richard Saghian.

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Why Japan has more than 8 million cheap abandoned houses that people are renovating into dream homes

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A street in Okawachiyama, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
An akiya is in the rural village of Okawachiyama, in Saga Prefecture, Japan.

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Commercial mortgage lending to jump 29% in 2024 after slowest year in a decade, Mortgage Bankers Association says

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High-rise residential buildings in Singapore.
High-rise public housing apartments are a key feature of Singapore's skyline.

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A millennial left California when rent and cost of living spiked. But she still worries about affording a home.

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Couple walking barefoot on beach with coffee in hand in San Diego, California.
Couple walking barefoot on beach with coffee in hand in San Diego, California.

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Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa's latest flip sold in less than a week after it was listed for nearly $1 million

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The El Moussas flipped another house.

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This year could be the breaking point for commercial real estate distress, research firm says

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FILE PHOTO: People walk past office buildings at the central business district in Singapore in this April 14, 2015 REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: People walking past office buildings at the central business district in Singapore

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We bought a house with an indoor pool. We thought it would be awesome but $30,000 later we wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

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A man and woman sitting at the edge of an indoor pool in their home.
Kaitlin and Josh Chmil bought a home with an indoor pool in 2020.

Courtesy of Kaitlin Chmil.

Empty-nest baby boomers won't give up their large homes — and it's hurting millennials with kids

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Development of single-family homes in Burke, Virginia.
Development of single-family homes in Burke, Virginia.

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