Blogger Kate Wagner gleefully chronicles hot-mess mansions, pillorying about 200 homes across 45 states since she launched McMansion Hell two years ago. Wagner, 24, created her near-instant viral blog ...

Think mortgage rates are at their peak in 2025? History tells us a different story. Flash back to 1981 when homebuyers paid an interest rate of 19% on a mortgage, according to CNN. At the time, people ...

Kate Wagner takes apart McMansions - like this one in New Jersey - on her popular blog. To upwardly-mobile Americans, those gigantic suburban houses known as McMansions might signal affluence and ...

McMansion resident Precious Sunday, center, stands with his arms spread wide open while resident Tegan Crombie lays on a large chair in a common area called “The Ballroom” in the shared Redwood City ...

You’ve heard of a mansion, but have you ever heard of a “McMansion”? Chances are someone you know probably lives in one. McMansion is a term that refers to a large house — typically in a suburban ...

Making Room is a biweekly opinion column. The views expressed are solely the author’s. The McMansion is the universal punching bag for housing politics in Arlington. It is a symbol for both pro-growth ...

Though the Great Recession of the last decade is solidly in the rearview, its aftereffects still loom large over the American real estate market. In many ways, the recession catalyzed an awakening ...