No, this is not a backhanded reference to the recent events in Florida. Nor is it about motorized yachts or houseboats. We are talking about a trend to construct homes with relatively permanent ...

Don’t use a carpenter’s level to establish a horizontal line when building a floating house, says Marc Even, who often has three custom homes, in various stages of completion, bobbing on the water ...

When a heavy storm hit in October, residents of the floating community of Schoonschip in Amsterdam had little doubt they could ride it out. They tied up their bikes and outdoor benches, checked in ...

For homebuyers with a special affection for life on the water—and an insistence on creature comforts—floating homes check a lot of boxes. These unique dwellings offer a permanent, water-based ...

Kathy Paquette had been following the Facebook posts about the vessels in Ontario’s cottage country for about a year when she and husband Wayne decided to pack up, sell their century-old house in ...