Upper middle class homeowners have the means to invest in more luxurious features compared to middle class individuals.

For the wealthiest 1% of Americans, only about 9% of their total net worth is tied up in their home. That’s compared to 63% for the broad middle class.

Many fear the middle class is essentially disappearing, which is why it's good to know the perimeters of this economic status ...

In their version, membership in the mass upper middle class depended not upon educational credentials but upon ownership of capital invested in the stock market.

Gagan Saini, CEO of We Buy Houses in Central Valley has witnessed college education without substantial debt become virtually impossible for upper-middle-class families.

The Deindustrial Revolution & The Dying Middle Class Writing in The Spectator, Ed West and Fraser Nelson say something bad is happening in Britain.

The so-called “middle class” in the Hamptons – New Yorkers with second homes in the in the $2 million to $5 million range – are frantically slashing prices to offload their properties ...

“The middle class was coming into its own. They wanted the same luxuries as the upper class, and the industrial revolution helped the middle class live a better, simpler life,” said Bonnie ...

The answer, his research found, is that there might be more buying power in a particular group of consumers — people he calls the upper middle class — than other economists have estimated.

Pat Neal made a fortune constructing homes for the middle and upper middle class. But now those consumers are pulling back amid the economic turmoil.

This time, it is the world's billion-plus, thwarted and angry middle class citizens who are driving change, potentially bringing all their money, connections, and cultural capital to bear.