First is a desire for smaller, more practical and functional homes, designed not for show but for how people really live and want to live. Where once the value of a home was measured largely in ...

Of course, homes getting a little smaller isn't necessarily a bad thing ... You can come home for dinner, spend a nice evening with your family, and maybe enjoy some ice cream in front of ...

The solution? New homes are being built smaller and much closer together than before. The housing market seems locked in a cycle that is driving the affordability of homeownership down.

With housing prices remaining at or near all-time highs across the country, a trend in case goods has fully crystallized: Smaller scale furniture.

Homes are shrinking in size and soaring in price. The median American home is 128 square feet smaller and $125,000 more expensive than it was five years ago, according to a recent analysis from ...