Category: Floating Future
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Solar Yachts
Electric boats and liveaboard yachts are gaining popularity across Europe’s lakes and rivers, but limited charging infrastructure remains a major challenge. Meet Arek, who is designing and building modern liveaboard SolarYachts at his shipyard in Berlin-Brandenburg. Living on the water aboard his own 140 sqm SolarYacht, the founder and his team took on the infrastructure…
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The Missing Metric
Discover the missing metric in Alternative Housing: Occupancy Durability. Owning the home is not the same as owning the right to stay. Housing is usually measured in familiar ways. Price per square foot. Mortgage rates. Rent burden. Inventory. Appreciation. Insurance. Taxes. For unconventional housing, we add another set of metrics: mobility, operating cost, energy independence,…
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Floating Forever?
Despite the title – the ending may surprise you. Below are a few quotes from the comments on this video.
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The New Dream
The New American Dream Isn’t About the House. It’s About the Life. Published by The Floating Residence | Market Intelligence For generations, success arrived with a familiar set of coordinates. A house. A white picket fence. A two-car garage. Thirty years of mortgage payments. Retirement at sixty-five, ideally with a lake view. That picture became…
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House “Keys”
But beware – NEW LONG-TERM ANCHORING PERMIT REQUIRED FOR VESSELS IN FLORIDA WATERS. Florida has a genuine regulatory liveaboard crisis happening right now. Miami passed new anchoring restrictions in late 2025 (max 30 nights anchored in any 6-month period, no anchoring within 300ft of a managed mooring field) specifically targeting the growing liveaboard/anchor-out population at…
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Land is Overrated
Could living on land be overrated? There’s a quiet rebellion happening in marinas, canals, and harbors around the world. It doesn’t look like a protest. It looks like Marisa Dietrich doing laundry on a Tuesday morning, her home gently rocking against the dock at Waterford Harbor Marina on the Texas coast. It looks like a…
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The Next Frontier
How floating homes are moving from the fringe to the forefront of climate-adaptive, lifestyle-driven real estate The world is running out of ground to build on. Not literally, of course — but functionally, in the places where people most want to live, the equation has broken down. Coastal cities are hemmed in by geography and…
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Beyond the Shoreline
What the Dutch Are Teaching the World About the Future of Living Executive Perspective For centuries, cities have expanded outward across available land. Today, that assumption is increasingly under pressure. Rising housing costs, land constraints, climate-related flooding, and population growth are forcing governments, developers, and residents to reconsider a fundamental question: what happens when conventional…