If we ever want to address poverty and inequality in America, we need to start with housing—most people’s greatest expense. A new report quantifies just how devastating our affordable housing shortage has become.
A Chicago condo owner who lives part-time in California returned home to find all his booze gone, a mysterious hookah on his dining room table, and a young couple sleeping in his bed. As he asked the couple to leave his apartment, they told him they’d booked the room on Airbnb.
The idea of "buying" a home in this economy is reserved for people who are richer, more responsible, and luckier than you. For you, the average American, the only choice is to rent. Which is good, because they're building rentals faster than you can say "But will you allow my dog, Baxter?"
Grey Gardens can be rented from Memorial Day through July for $125,000. Amenities include the ghost of Little Edie.
Bristol Palin's five-bedroom in Maricopa, Arizona—where she was supposed to live while attending Arizona State University, before she changed her mind and signed on to a Hollywood reality show—is now available as a rental. The price is $1400/month. Click on the image above to view full-size. [Realtor, photo of Bristol…
Take a look at the $25,000-a-month Los Angeles mansion that pop supernova Lady Gaga is currently renting. There's a spa, a wetbar, six bedrooms, and eight bathrooms. It's huge. There's even a room for Alejandro!
Apartment 3E at 142 West 109th St. is like the opposite of haunted: Barack Obama lived here in 1981. Now it's on the market, and you can rent it for $1,900 a month. Let's take a look.
Seaside Realty in Seaside, NJ would like to remind you that the house from Jersey Shore is still available for nightly rentals. But you better hurry because every prom party in Jersey is headed there this spring!
The Tribeca loft that Mischa Barton skipped out on—her old landlord is now suing her for $21,300—is up for rent: "Luxury loft formerly occupied by A-list celebrity. High ceilings, great light, beautiful columns, new kitchen. Incredible discreet block in Tribeca close to all transportation." [Streeteasy via Curbed]
If you happen to be moving to LA and you've got $4,350 a month to spend, be advised that Samantha Ronson's Hollywood Hills home is now up for rent. [Real Estalker]
"Donald Trump may have inadvertently rented property in a ritzy New York suburb to loathed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has spent weeks trying to find a place to pitch his trademark tent while in town for the United Nations General Assembly meeting," ABC News now reports, confirming a previous account that the…
Rupert Murdoch is currently using his 183-foot sailboat. Or at least he was a few weeks ago when the Rosehearty was spotted in Auke Bay, Alaska and the "rumor on the dock" was that mogul's special on-board guest was none other Mel Gibson. But if you're planning ahead, you may want to take note that you can now rent…
What happens when you put a desperate real estate developer together with a discount clothing chain? You come up with the contest that Daffy's is kicking off today. The retailer is offering a one-year lease on a two-bedroom apartment at One Seventh—located on the corner of Seventh Avenue South and Carmine Street—for…
If you were worried it was too late to secure a spectacular rental in the Hamptons for the month of August—just 10 days left!—rest assured there is plenty of inventory to choose from. Curbed Hamptons has a roundup of the ten most expensive Hamptons rentals still available for the month, a list that includes Philip…
If you live near 72nd and Broadway, today is your lucky day: Jon Gosselin of Jon & Kate Plus 8 is your new neighbor. People reports that Gosselin just rented an apartment at the Alexandria at 201 West 72nd Street. This places him right above an Urban Outfitters, so he'll be able to shop for his eight kids and new…
• Albert Hammond Jr.'s East Village apartment has gone back on the market. Hammond originally listed the two-bedroom pad at 141 East 3rd Street for $1.199 million last August, and went into contract to sell it before the buyer dropped out. He later re-listed it for $999,000, but then took it off the market altogether…
• Eve Weinstein, the ex-wife of film mogul Harvey Weinstein, has lowered the price of her sixth-floor apartment at 1133 Fifth Avenue for the second time since first putting it on the market in December for $13.5 million. The four-bedroom spread, which was reduced by $1 million in February, can now be yours for $11.9…
Meet Kevin Patterson, the 32-year-old employee of a real estate development firm, who earned top honors from apartmenttherapy.com for having "New York's smallest, coolest apartment." It's 210-square-feet and it costs $1,550 a month. [NYDN]
• Kelly Killoren Bensimon isn't having much luck unloading her 2,800-square-foot home in East Hampton, which she put on the market for $14.5 million two years ago and was most recently offering for $10.9 million. The Further Lane estate has now been taken off the market, although Bensimon hasn't given up hope on…
• Three of disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier's Hamptons homes—including two neighboring mansions on Dune Road in East Quogue and a rundown Westhampton house—are about to hit the market. The East Quogue estates are expected to be listed together for around $12.5 million. [NYP]
• Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, the ex-wife of…
