Category: Real Estate

Before Los Angeles was a tangle of vehicle-choked freeways, it supported one of the largest electric railway systems in the world. Streetcars scuttled between the city center and freshly built neighborhoods, like the dreamily named Ivanhoe, a development several miles northwest of downtown. In the early 20th century, workers — many of them employees of…

Manhattan | 288 West 12th Street, No. 3FR West Village Co-op $2.25 million A two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, roughly 950-square-foot co-op apartment with a windowed kitchen, marble countertops, a primary suite with a windowed dressing room, a second bedroom with a walk-in closet, three wood-burning fireplaces, a washer/dryer and supplemental mini-split heating and air-conditioning, on the third…

Living alone can be a choice or a pit stop, but one thing’s for sure: The rent is on you. Buying a home has been especially difficult over the past year, so more singles have been left to rely on leasing in a market where the typical renter is already rent burdened — that is,…

Kerhonkson, N.Y. | $1.1 Million A circa 1720 farmhouse with four bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a three-acre lot The Depuy-Dewitt House was named after the prominent families who occupied it before, during and after the Revolutionary War, and built around a fir-and-chestnut home constructed by French Huguenots in the 1680s. The sellers, who bought…

Since the late 1960s, Sir Rod Stewart and his raspy-voiced anthems have sat at the heart of the canon of English-language rock. And for more than 30 of those years, whether he was belting out “Da You Think I’m Sexy” in Seoul or “Have I Told You Lately” in London, he called the same nine-bedroom,…

In 1992, he covered famine in Somalia. In 1993, Sarajevo. In 1994, he crossed a bridge into Rwanda. When he looked down, he saw bodies caught on the rocks, their arms flailing in the water. It was at the edges of the world, in places of extreme suffering, that he discovered he could feel again,…

When Simon Elkaim hired an architect to redesign his Manhattan apartment, he was clear about his thoughts on color: the bolder and more vibrant, the better. There’s a simple reason for that preference. “I’m colorblind,” said Mr. Elkaim, 69, an international real estate developer. Specifically, he can see pure, bright colors like blues, reds and…

On a winding country road, four miles from the nearest traffic light in rural Dutchess County, N.Y., the holiday lights appear like a carnival fun house shattering the darkness. Every year, roughly 60,000 visitors stream into Union Vale, dwarfing the population of the town of 4,600, their cars crawling up the wooded, unlit roads to…