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What Is Fair Housing?
There are laws to protect people from discrimination in buying, renting and living in their homes.
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Business
Home Insurance Is Clobbering Consumers. Yet It’s Barely Counted as Inflation.
Skyrocketing premiums are hitting homeowners hard, but they barely factor into common price measures.
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News
Dark and Stormy Is How They Take Their Décor
Some decorators swear by the calming effects of deep and moody hues.
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Health
When ‘Prior Authorization’ Becomes a Medical Roadblock
Medicare Advantage plans say it reduces waste and inappropriate care. Critics say it often restricts coverage unnecessarily.
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Business
The High-Class Problem That Comes With Home Equity
You may feel richer as you pay your mortgage down and home values go up. Using that equity is another…
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Business
A Way to Beat High Mortgage Rates? Take Over Someone Else’s Loan.
Assumable mortgages — or low-rate mortgages that home buyers can take over from home sellers — are making a comeback.…
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News
How 360,000 Haitians Wound Up Living in Empty Lots and Crowded Schools
In a worsening humanitarian crisis, Haitians have been forced to flee their homes in the face of gang onslaughts, but…
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News
Security Guard Injured in Shooting Outside Drake’s Home in Toronto
The police said that they did not know whether the shooting was related to the recent exchange of increasingly personal…
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Real Estate
Higher Home Values Mean Higher Taxes. Who’s Paying the Most?
Thanks to huge increases in values, with home sellers making double or triple what they paid, more sales are triggering…
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Real Estate
Warren Buffett’s Real Estate Brokerage Agrees to $250 Million Settlement
HomeServices of America, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States, will settle the claims brought by home…