Rental Chic
Saturday's Financial Times (FT) had an entire supplement on the benefits of renting real estate rather than buying. FT's rental options are very expensive - $87,500 for a week rental in the South of France - but I do not think an entire section of the paper would have been dedicated to renting real estate a year ago. Several of the articles were for weekly or monthly vacation rentals, but the whole point of the section was that it is OK to rent and not buy.