Q: I am on the board of a 10-unit co-op brownstone in Harlem. We like to keep the maintenance fees low, and we count on every shareholder to pay in a timely way. I’ve lived here for 11 years, and there is one shareholder who never pays on time. We have to chase him down…
Gothic Quarter | €640,000 ($690,000) A redesigned two-bedroom apartment close to cafes, museums and landmarks. This newly rebuilt two-bedroom apartment is in an 1860 building in the Old City’s Gothic Quarter, with sidewalk cafes and tapas bars lining labyrinthine streets. Medieval landmarks include the remains of the Roman wall, Barcelona City Hall and the ancient…
If you’ve been thinking about moving, London’s built-environment community wants you to consider staying put. On Tuesday night, the New London Architecture group (NLA) held its 15th annual Don’t Move, Improve! awards, showcasing the most innovative and sustainable home renovations around the city. This year’s Home of the Year prize, selected from more than 150…
Manhattan | 46 East 92nd Street, No. 1 Carnegie Hill Garden Co-op $1.55 million A two-bedroom, two-bath, roughly 1,240-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, an updated kitchen with a breakfast bar, a built-in bar with a wine fridge, a solarium, a primary suite with built-ins and a walk-in closet, a second en suite bedroom,…
With a lack of inventory fueling the current housing crisis, U.S. cities are converting commercial spaces into residential spaces. In 2023, the number of apartments created in buildings that were originally designed for other purposes ticked up to about 12,700 completed units — nearly 18 percent higher than in 2022, when roughly 10,800 were created,…
Lexington, Ky. | $449,000 A 1924 bungalow with two bedrooms and one and a half bathrooms, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is in Kenwick, a neighborhood less than two miles from downtown and a five-minute drive from the University of Kentucky. It is within walking distance of a coffee shop, several breweries and restaurants…
The first time I met Neil Diboll, he set his front yard on fire. On purpose. It was part of a lesson that Mr. Diboll, a prairie ecologist and nurseryman, was eager to share about native plant communities. The prairie species that had replaced his lawn were adapted to fire, he informed me, because regular…
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About two weeks after Marcell Leon Viragh moved into the Park Santa Monica, a Los Angeles building where residents can sweat in a Himalayan salt sauna or gaze at the Pacific Ocean from the expansive roof deck, he took the elevator down to the spa, where a registered nurse slid a needle into a vein…
Molly Mungroo is not a homebody. “I’m not going to stay in this house and watch these four walls,” she said. “I’m not going to say, ‘I’m old, I don’t go anywhere.’ I don’t do that. I’m independent.” Between volunteering at a food pantry, going to church and regular walks in her neighborhood, Ms. Mungroo,…
