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izmag has featured several low-cost bamboo housing prototypes before, including the Blooming Bamboo home and the Bamboo Lakou vision for Haiti, but the units designed for this project are on a much smaller scale. The two-story prototype unit featured
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In 2010, it was Black’s turn to go. She’d gotten one of those 2–28 mortgages that slowly strangled so many borrowers -- two years of a low, fixed interest rate followed by 28 years of rising payments -- and she’d reached her limit.
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Perhaps due to the fact that the challenge of designing viable tiny homes pushes architects to come up with creative space-saving solutions, the tiny house movement is bursting with great ideas.
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Yesterday's news from the NAR that in February all cash transactions accounted for 35% of all existing home purchases, up from 33% in January, not to mention that 73% of speculators paid "all cash", caught some by surprise.
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French architectural firm Multipod Studio recently unveiled a new sustainable house prototype that's lightweight, recyclable, and promises to be an inexpensive purchase and extremely efficient to run.
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The Fed’s massive money printing campaigns flood the canyons of Wall Street with ZERO-COGS.
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Would you live in a home made out of old shipping containers?
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It is by now well understood that the US housing market over the past year has not benefited from broad consumer participation, exhibited best by the unprecedented,....
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Built for over a million people, the city of Ordos was designed to be the crowning glory of Inner Mongolia.
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Baltimore's people of the woods: Inside the hidden homeless camps made of milk crates, wooden doors and tarps on the outskirts of town
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How big would our city be if it had the same urban density as New York City, Houston or Paris?
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Despite being told by Bullard, Yellen (and numerous other Federal Reserve thinkers) that quantitative easing was aimed at improving the housing market, the data suggests that - somewhat predictably - it did very little for mom-and-pop organic real ho
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Watch Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips quickly construct a building made of concrete canvas—a material that has all the elements of concrete, but is flexible enough to be turned into any shape.
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One of the key limitations in the design of many tiny houses is the fact that they have to be built on trailer chassis.
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The report from RealtyTrac last week proves beyond the shadow of a doubt the supposed housing market recovery is a complete and utter fraud.
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Would you like to buy a house for one dollar?
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The organisers of Sochi Olympics on Sunday raced to finish all the hotels for the start of the Games in less than a week, as Australia banned athletes from leaving the Olympic zones due to security worries.
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This morning's utter collapse in pending home sales - a 6-sigma miss by 'economists' unaware that it was cold in December - has been ushered away on the back of "weather" reasoning.
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The open-source construction system WikiHouse could upend architecture as we know it.
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Trap doors and secret passages are usually associated with moldy, ancient castles or creaky old money manor houses, but Spanish architecture firm Elii has managed to pack a tiny, 620 square-foot attic loft in Madrid with a bevy of space-saving contra
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Boise, Idaho-area architect Macy Miller traded her 2,500-square-foot residence for a 196-square-foot home she built herself after dealing with a long and complex foreclosure settlement.
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Following in the footsteps of the Tiny Tack House and Pocket Shelter, American web designer Alek Lisefski has recently finished building his very own tiny house on wheels.
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Looks like we interviewed Seth Daniels at just the right time.
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There's a housing crisis going on around the globe. Populations are on the rise and city centers just can't meet the ever-growing demand.
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In July of last year, I asked the question of whether housing was really recovering or not?
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Technology will see lunar soil layers built up in a pre-determined design System will work like a giant 3D printer using a nozzle and moveable gantry Could create curved walls and architecture that is 'exotic' and 'beautiful' Aside from buildings
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Forget what you are hearing about stiffer mortgage lending requirements. It’s not true. Real estate expert Fabian Calvo says, “If you can fog up a mirror or you have a pulse, they will give you a home loan.
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After college, as my friends left Michigan for better opportunities, I was determined to help fix this broken, chaotic city by building my own home in the middle of it. I was 23 years old.
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With more and more people choosing to live in cities, there is less and less affordable housing available, meaning that some municipalities are trying out things like micro-housing or relaxed zoning laws to meet up with the demand.
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JPMorgan Chase, the US bank used by Bernard Madoff who masterminded the biggest fraud on record, has agreed to pay about $2.0 billion to US authorities to avoid litigation. At the time of its collapse in 2008, Madoff Securities claimed it had about
