John Ackerman has spent millions procuring a majority of the known caves in Minnesota, which add up to dozens of miles of underground passageways and likely make him the largest cave owner in the U.S. He collects and charts them in the name of preservation, but his controversial methods have created many opponents.
In the 1960s, a white subdivision prepares for the arrival of a black family.
How Washington society got scammed by one of its own.
Uncovering evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents.
A year living in a shack in Oakland.
A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.
How the most expensive and unstoppable invasive plant crisis inspires madness and panic.
How Miami’s real estate industry turns a blind eye to climate change.
They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.
Cape Coral, Florida, was built on lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. It’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.
They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.
“It was a crumbling Parkdale rooming house, populated by drug users and squatters and available on the cheap. We were cash-strapped, desperate to move and hemmed in by a hot market.”
The landlord’s guide to gentrifying New York.
Alben Sagan got his name from the U.S. Marshals. Then he got a fortune from a woman he’d only known for a few years.
A look inside Donald Trump’s portfolio of exclusive real estate properties.
Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?
Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.
Shakiya Robertson thought she had found a way get her family a home. She moved in, fixed the place up, made all the payments. Then she, like thousands of others in Detroit, was told that the house she thought she had purchased wasn’t actually hers.
An elderly woman renovates her basement for renters and discovers uncomfortable truths about herself.
Only after buying a new home did the Milliken family learn something terrible had happened in it.
How New York real estate became the new Swiss bank account.
On the urge to live in a house you can't afford, the "acceptable lust" of American life.
An investigation into Boston’s off-campus housing.
The fire that killed a Boston University student in a house filled with 13 other people and only one exit.
Examining the laws around off-campus housing and their lack of enforcement.
How the giants in the student rental trade do business.
A profile of the Los Angeles Clippers owner, an oft-sued real estate baron with a documented racist streak and a penchant for heckling his own players, on the occasion of him winning an NAACP lifetime achievement award.
How a disgraced principal-turned real estate mogul helped cause the global financial crisis.
