The dream sounds simple enough. You sell the large family home where you raised your kids, move into something smaller and ...

The housing landscape in America is undergoing a seismic shift. What once stood as the ultimate dream - sprawling McMansions with multiple spare bedrooms - now feels excessive, impractical, and ...

Though it might seem overwhelming at first — especially if you’re moving decades worth of stuff into a smaller home — there are some strategies that can make the downsizing process a lot smoother.

For many seniors, their home is their biggest asset. But if they were hoping to sell it, buy something smaller and pocket a nice windfall for retirement, they might be disappointed — at least in the ...

You found listings in newspapers; offers were handwritten; mortgage rates were higher than today’s — and bidding wars were ...

Most people want to stay in their homes for as long as possible as they get older. But if you do decide it's time to downsize, where do you begin? In a special "Aging Matters on Colorado Matters," we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking around wondering how to downsize a house full of stuff so it will fit into your new home can send you right into anxiety ...

After trading my 2,800-square-foot house for a 900-square-foot apartment, I discovered I wasn't downsizing my life—I was upgrading from 20 hours of weekly maintenance to 20 hours of actually living.

Dear Heloise: A friend of my mother decided to downsize to a townhome after living in her large family home for years. She decided the things that she wanted to take with her, then hired an estate ...