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  • Liz Weston: 3 steps to downsize in a hurry

    May 15, 2023 - 6:03 AM

    Ideally, you’d spend months or even years carefully purging excess belongings — but life may have other plans. Maybe you or someone you love has a health crisis and needs to move into assisted living. Or someone has died and their home has to be cleared before next month’s rent is due. Maybe you’re just moving soon and want to significantly lighten your load.

  • Liz Weston: Will adding an accessory dwelling unit pay off?

    November 14, 2022 - 6:02 AM

    Accessory dwelling units are known by many names: in-law suites, guest houses, backyard cottages, or basement or garage conversions, among others. What all ADUs have in common is that they’re a separate living space typically added to a single-family residential lot, and they’re having a moment.

  • The Property Line: Don’t be misled by myths about iBuyers

    December 27, 2021 - 4:01 AM

    IBuyers are one of the few true innovations to hit the real estate industry in recent years. Yet consumers haven’t fully embraced them because of misconceptions about how iBuyers work, and what types of problems they resolve for sellers and buyers.

  • What's your religion? In US, a common reply now is "None"

    December 14, 2021 - 9:36 AM

    Nathalie Charles, even in her mid-teens, felt unwelcome in her Baptist congregation, with its conservative views on immigration, gender and sexuality. So she left.

  • The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms

    August 25, 2021 - 3:09 PM

    The new four-bedroom house in Charlotte, North Carolina, was Crystal Marie and Eskias McDaniels’ personal American dream, the reason they had moved to this Southern town from pricey Los Angeles a few years ago.

  • The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms

    August 25, 2021 - 9:06 AM

    The new four-bedroom house in Charlotte, North Carolina, was Crystal Marie and Eskias McDaniels’ personal American dream, the reason they had moved there from pricey Los Angeles.

  • 'Antique Roadshow' flips the script with celebrity editions

    May 03, 2021 - 8:33 AM

    NEW YORK - Chef, cookbook author and TV host Carla Hall has always wondered about an antique wooden highchair her family has long cherished.

  • Liz Weston: What to do with your stuff the kids don't want

    July 20, 2020 - 3:40 AM

    Parents who are downsizing or simply decluttering may have to get creative at finding homes for all their unwanted possessions – particularly these days.

  • Can't find an affordable FHA-approved home? You have options

    February 20, 2020 - 5:58 AM

    Americans took out nearly $150 billion in loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration to buy homes in 2018. Nearly 83% of those FHA borrowers were first-time home buyers, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

  • 5 home improvements that may not pay off when you sell

    February 12, 2020 - 6:20 AM

    You spent the holidays binging on HGTV, and now visions of shiplap accent walls and freestanding soaking tubs are dancing through your head.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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