How One House in North Carolina Shows the Growing Cost Home Ownership

北卡罗来纳州的一所房屋如何显示房屋所有权不断增长

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2025-01-29

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One house, three owners, 14 years. The cost of the same property in Chapel Hill, North Carolina has varied widely for the families who lived there. Wall Street Journal reporter Veronica Dagher joins host Ariana Aspuru to explore how this story illustrates the housing affordability issues facing the U.S. Plus, we’ll hear from the current owner about how the home’s value has doubled, despite no major improvements. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • To understand the home affordability problems across the country,

  • try looking at 1139 Great Ridge Parkway in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

  • I love this house.

  • I had been looking in this neighborhood since they first started building it.

  • That's Rachel Walker, and she currently owns the three bedroom, forest-green Victorian-style home in Chapel Hill.

  • There's lots of bushes, there are woods behind us.

  • So it's like a really pretty scene.

  • When you walk in the front door, you walk into really what we call our dining area, and the floors here are beautiful.

  • They're this natural wood, and there's some wanes coating, and the windows are really tall windows.

  • Often in the summers, we are on the deck a lot.

  • Our cats come in and out, so they just have free rain.