The model is simple enough. Companies gobble up thousands of homes and put them on the market as “rent-to-buy” — meaning you enter the home as a renter, but with the option to buy the property ...

Key factors to consider when deciding between renting and buying a home, including upfront costs, monthly expenses, equity ...

Buying a home may offer stability, tax benefits and a chance to build wealth over time. But if you are considering monthly costs, renting is cheaper than monthly mortgage payments in 45 out of the 50 ...

Buying a home is the biggest purchase most people will ever make. But is it always smarter to buy than to rent? Zillow's ...

Housing prices showed signs of stabilizing in July, but worries remain in many parts of country about the pros and cons of homeownership. Jeffrey Brown gets two views on homeownership versus renting ...

A millennial teacher could afford to buy a house thanks to a first-time homebuyer assistance program that offered her a $20,000 down payment grant.

Townhouses in Memphis, TN, a city where the typical home price is just 10.5 times higher than the median one-year rental payment. When Karl W. Smith wrote in Bloomberg Opinion that “America should ...