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2 days ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Jennifer Knoll got the first email from Zillow shortly after 5 p.m. on a Wednesday in late May. The next day, she received another. By the time the weekend arrived, she had three warnings from the home-search giant sitting in her inbox. Knoll has been helping people buy and sell houses in the Washington, DC, area for roughly two decades, the last six of which she's spent as an agent with the real estate brokerage Compass.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Tales of intergenerational turmoil tend to strike a nerve, so I steeled myself for some angry emails last month when I wrote a story about the millennials who aren't ready to inherit homes from their baby boomer parents. Both boomers and millennials have good reason to get touchy about media scrutiny — each side has caught plenty of grief for the economic shortcomings of the younger generation.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Zach Janik had all the makings of a Florida lifer. Born and raised in West Palm Beach, he spent most of his adult years in St. Augustine, a small beach town on the state's northeast coast. In 2018, just shy of 30, he purchased a tidy three-bedroom house for $195,000. Life was good. A few years into the COVID-19 pandemic, though, he no longer recognized the place he had long called home.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Chelsea Atkinson understood, at least in theory, that her father's house might one day be hers. She just didn't expect that day to arrive so soon. The death of her father in 2019 came as a shock: He was just 58, but complications from an earlier bout with lung cancer led to a quick decline. "It was like, 'Boom,'" Atkinson says. She was 28, an only child, and had already purchased a house in Austin, where she'd grown up.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Kiersten Essenpreis for BI 2025-05-07T08:04:02Z Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . It's a tough market for homebuyers given the economic uncertainty and high prices.