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Home Projects
Why the Dirt Beneath Your House is Making Headlines
We obsess over kitchen finishes, but collapsing roads and stalled developments prove the real value of a home lies in the dirt beneath it.
Home & Safety
Under Pressure: What Failing Infrastructure and PFAS Mean for Your Home
Aging pipes are bursting in the streets, and anxiety over PFAS in local water supplies is growing. Suddenly, keeping your property safe means looking way past your front door.
Home & Safety
Check Your Freezer, Watch Your Street
Between contaminated berries hiding in the icebox and massive sinkholes swallowing residential roads, it's a week to watch your step.
Home & Safety
The Fall Safety Audit: Forever Chemicals and the Future of Your Fridge
This fall's safety update tackles two big issues: testing private well water for forever chemicals and the new technology replacing your refrigerator.
Home Projects
The Completion Curveball
Looming furniture tariffs and a new push for private well testing are making the final stages of settling into a home a lot more complicated.
Home & Safety
The Storm After the Storm: Why Your Roof Inspector Needs a Second Look
Extreme weather is battering multiple states, and federal aid is tied up in red tape. Meanwhile, predatory roofers are stepping in to manufacture their own paydays.
Home Projects
The New Math of Home Improvement: Tariffs, Tech, and Timelines
A new border tax threatens to spike the cost of lumber. But smarter technology and remote inspections might save you enough on labor to make up the difference.
Market & Mortgage
The Mortgage Rate Reality Check: Why Relief is on Hold
Hoping for a sudden drop in borrowing costs this fall? The central bank just delivered a harsh reality check.
Energy & Solar
The Great Utility Reshuffle
Mandatory water bans in Denver. Rising bills for lead pipe replacements in Ohio. The basic math of running a home is changing, and you're the one paying for it.
Money & Bills
The Home Insurance Market's Quiet Eviction Notice
Home insurance is getting expensive. Worse, it's getting harder to keep. Here is why companies are dropping policies and how local governments are fighting back.
Home Projects
The Looming Lumber Tax
You have the equity to renovate. But a brewing border dispute over building materials is about to make major home projects a lot more expensive.
Money & Bills
The Tax Man and the Con Artist
Homeowners are caught in a frustrating squeeze between rising local tax burdens and sophisticated scammers promising a magical way out.
Energy & Solar
Your House Is the New Power Plant
Utility giants are merging and net metering policies are shifting. But new incentives can help you turn your property into a personal power hub.
Energy & Solar
The AI Power Grab: Why Your Utility Bill Isn't Spiking (Yet)
Data centers are eating up massive amounts of electricity, but regulators are finally stepping in to make sure tech companies, not homeowners, foot the bill.
Home & Safety
What's Actually Coming Out of Your Tap
Federal regulators are fighting over chemical testing rules, and local pipes are snapping under pressure. The safety of your home water supply is suddenly a front-burner issue.