Rachel Sugar is a freelance journalist in New York City covering food and culture. On a recent group vacation, she was ...

Start your search for a vacation house at least six months to a year in advance.; You can negotiate gray areas such as the deposit, who's responsible for housekeeping, and using any outdoor amenities.

Vacation home sales rose by nearly 17% in 2020 and by 33% year-over-year between January and April 2021. “Now there's been a huge reversal because of high interest rates and also because of the ...

O'Connor, who spent 30 years building houses, but whose research specialty is in affordable housing, acknowledged that co-buying luxury vacation homes is for a specific niche of consumers.

“Vacation homes are a hot commodity at the moment,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. “With many businesses and employers still extending an option to work remotely to workers, ...

Most of us don’t consider all the costs of owning vacation homes, both in time and money. Here is how to plan for ownership of a second home: There are obvious costs, such as insurance, property ...

Sales of existing homes in counties with a higher share of vacation homes rose by 24% on average in 2020, more than double the 11% increase in counties that don't have a high concentration of ...