A new podcast from Angi
Own Itwith Angie Hicks
There's a lot nobody tells you about owning a home.
Angie Hicks, co-founder of Angi, sits down with industry experts and real homeowners to help you make smarter decisions about where you live. New episodes every two weeks.
A first look
Watch the trailer.
A flipper. A money expert. A journalist. Two fixer-upper romantics. Angie asks them what they tell their own families.
What you'll hear on the show
When to renovate, when to move.
The fix that pays back. The one that doesn't.
What 1,000 flips can teach you about your own.
Budgeting for the home you live in.
When "good enough" actually is.
How to spot a good pro before they show up.
Latest episode · Episode 5
Rates Aren't Going Back to 3%. Here's What Buyers Need to Hear.
With Diana Olick — CNBC's senior real estate correspondent
The housing market is weird right now. That's not a hot take — it's what CNBC's real estate correspondent Diana Olick will tell you flat out. In this episode, Angie sits down with Diana to make sense of what's actually happening, why it's happening, and what homeowners and buyers should be paying attention to beyond the daily noise about mortgage rates.
Here's what we discussed with Diana:
- Why the market is as strange as it is right now — and how we got here
- The supply shortage nobody is fixing fast enough, and what that means for prices
- Why first-time buyers are getting squeezed the hardest
- The mortgage lock-in effect: why people aren't moving and what that's doing to inventory
- Rates aren't going back to 3%. So what should buyers actually be waiting for?
- The markets where you can still buy a lot of house for the money
- Why the starter home may not exist anymore — and how that should change your time horizon
- What homeowners who come out ahead have in common
- How to see past a bad kitchen and buy the bones
About the show
Honest conversations about the choices that shape a home.
Buying a home is the easy part. After that, the decisions start — and they don't stop. When to renovate. When to call a pro. What's worth the money. What to do when something breaks at the worst possible time.
Own It with Angie Hicks is a candid, practical podcast about the trade-offs of homeownership. Angie draws on more than three decades of listening to homeowners — and brings in industry experts, insiders, and real homeowners to talk through the choices no one tells you about until you're in the middle of them.
- 0years of homeowner expertise behind the mic
- 0home projects on Angi — the homeowner reality the show draws from
- Everywhereon Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and every major podcast platform
Your host
Angie Hicks
Co-founder of Angi. America's most trusted voice in homeownership.
In 1995, Angie Hicks was 22 years old, fresh out of school, and going door-to-door in Columbus, Ohio with a clipboard — asking homeowners which contractors they actually trusted. She wrote up the answers, printed them in a newsletter, and charged subscribers a few bucks a year to read them.
That was Angie's List. Three decades, an IPO, and a merger later, it's Angi — a marketplace millions of homeowners use to find the right person for the job. Through all of it, Angie has done the same thing she did with that first clipboard: ask, listen, and tell people what she's learned.
She's spent her career listening — to homeowners about what they're stuck on, to pros about what they wish customers knew, and to anyone with a story about a renovation gone right or sideways. Own It is what happens when she turns the mic around.
The lineup
The people Angie's sitting down with.
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Tarek El Moussa
HGTV host · real estate investor
On what actually moves the needle when you're getting ready to sell — and the projects that aren't worth it.
Episode 1
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Tiffany Aliche
"The Budgetnista" · NYT bestselling author, Get Good with Money
On budgeting for a home you can actually afford to live in — not just buy.
Episode 2
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Cheap Old Houses
Elizabeth & Ethan Finkelstein · HGTV hosts
On the romance and reality of buying a fixer-upper for under $100k.
Episode 3
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Caleb Silver
Editor-in-Chief, Investopedia · formerly CNN
On the financial side of homeownership — what to know before you sign anything.
Episode 4
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Diana Olick
CNBC's senior real estate correspondent
On why rates aren't going back to 3% — and what buyers and homeowners should actually be paying attention to right now.
Episode 5
Find your entry point
What kind of homeowner are you?
Five questions. Sixty seconds. We'll tell you which conversation to start with.
Everyone has a default move when the house starts to talk back. Tell us yours.
Your homeowner type
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Start with this episode
He's flipped 1,000 homes. Here's what he fixes first.
With Tarek El Moussa — Episode 1
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What homeowners are asking
If you've got the question, the show's got the conversation.
A growing list of homeowner questions — one per episode. New conversations every two weeks.
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Be on the Show
Got a story homeowners need to hear?
We're always looking for guests with something specific to say — experts, insiders, and real homeowners with a story worth sharing. Tell us a bit about you and what you'd want to talk about.
We read every pitch. We can't respond to all of them, but if there's a fit, we'll be in touch.