A Colombian company, Conceptos Plasticos, has come up with a solution to the landfill problem by recycling plastic into LEGO-like building blocks that families can use to construct their homes.
While most people wouldn't think this type of material to be suitable for building a comfortable and safe abode, award-winning architects have discovered how to use it to produce remarkably sturdy and reliable shelters. Dutch design studio Fiction
More than a quarter of the all-cash luxury home purchases made using shell companies in Manhattan and Miami were flagged as suspicious in a new effort to unearth money laundering in real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday. As a result, of
Eight years after the subprime crisis, news of a startup bringing institutional real-estate exposure to individual investors may be met with some skepticism.
Fastbrick Robotics, an ASX-listed company based in Perth, has created a robot brick layer, a form of 3D printing which can create the shell of a house without being touched by human hands.
Following last month's surprising drop in new home sales, which tumbled the most in 8 months alongside sharp downward revisions to the historical data, coupled with a plunge in the median price many expressed concern that the housing recovery....
Despite its supposed seasonal adjustment, Case-Shiller home price growth in May tumbled for the 3rd year in a row (in fact, with revisions, the 0.23% drop since March is the biggest drop since June 2014).
Estonian firm Kodasema is developing a prefabricated concrete micro-home that can be assembled and installed on-site within just seven hours, then moved to another location with relative ease.
Do we really expect that this subprime government bond bubble, whose rate of expansion is accelerating, can continue to get bigger and bigger without consequence forever?
The UK isn't winning any awards this week for its collaboration skills, but the country deserves some credit for "Months," one of five installations in the British Pavilion's "Home Economics" exhibition at this year's Venice Architectur
Whether you're looking to return to paradise or escape the collapse of society, more and more people are looking to get away from it all and rediscover their inner-rugged individual self.
Reader Duncan Burns, a writer for the "Valley Patriot", a local newspaper in North Andover, Massachusetts pinged me with an interesting chart on the home ownership rate in Massachusetts.
Modern underground cities are great ways to avoid being stuck in the severe cold or in the rain during a bout of severe weather. Ancient underground cities, like those in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, also served as a way to avoid outside dangers
In this video Luke Rudkowski travels to Compton, California to talk to Elvis Summers, the main behind the " Tiny Houses For The Homeless in Los Angeles." Elvis's story that he shared in this video is insane with government intervention and intimidati
in the housing market. Toll Brothers, the largest luxury homebuilder in the US, reported strong earnings Tuesday but acknowledged one of the biggest problems in the housing market.
n this video Luke Rudkowski travels to Compton, California to talk to Elvis Summers, the main behind the " Tiny Houses For The Homeless in Los Angeles." Elvis's story that he shared in this video is insane with government intervention and intim