Category: Real Estate

Marian Berg lost nearly everything in the Atlas fire of 2017 — not just the Napa, Calif., house she had built with her husband, who died in 2014, but all of its contents. “I was downstairs reading a book, and I had a friend who called and said, ‘Your hill is on fire,’” said Ms….

Since the 1990s, the yearly price of attending a four-year private college including living expenses has almost doubled — from around $31,000 in 1992 to over $53,000 in 2022. Public four-year colleges haven’t fared any better, their price more than doubling in the same period. The sticker shock has meant that more and more students…

Los Angeles | $3.495 Million A 1965 midcentury-modern house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This house was renovated by the sellers, who bought it in 2022 and restored the original walnut paneling and terrazzo floors; updated the plumbing and electrical systems; and installed new double-glazed windows and…

“Explore what’s in bloom now,” exclaims a banner on the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s website. And, indeed, there is much to see. The dramatic property in Boylston, Mass., includes two conservatories and 18 distinct gardens, both formal and naturalistic. The grounds offer sweeping views across the vast Wachusett Reservoir, as well as…

Q: I’m looking to buy a home in New York’s Hudson Valley, where it seems sellers sometimes ask considerably more than what a property is actually worth. So when it comes time to make an offer, when is it lowballing, and when is it simply offering what I think is a realistic market price? My…

What’s the easiest way to make any room look better? A vase of fresh flowers. It’s also one of the least expensive ways — if you have access to a garden, a yard or a container garden on a balcony. Assembling flower arrangements like the ones you see in magazines or on social media doesn’t…

Calton Hill | $600,000 (£475,000) A three-bedroom mews apartment in a historic Georgian district with park access This rectangular three-bedroom, one-bath apartment is in a mews property — a converted stable or coach house — on a peaceful cobblestone street in Edinburgh’s historic Calton Hill neighborhood. Calton Hill is a volcanic mound offering a number…

This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Weston, Conn., and a five-bedroom in Stony Brook, N.Y.

Manhattan | 400 East 59th Street, No. 15G Sutton Place Co-op $685,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 700-square-foot apartment with a small windowed kitchen, a windowed marble bathroom, gold-leaf ceilings, PTAC heating and air-conditioning, and ample closets, on the 15th floor of a 17-story prewar doorman building with a live-in super, a waiting list for basement…

Castine, Maine | $550,000 A 1909 cottage with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 2.1-acre lot This property is in a town that is home to about 1,300 full-time residents and the Maine Maritime Academy, a four-year college from which many students go on to join the United States merchant marine. It is about…

Tiny homes are being built across the country, and novel approaches to living small are being explored around the globe. For much of the past decade, the average size of a newly built rental apartment in the United States had also been shrinking. But recently the trend reversed. In 2023, the average size of new…

Andrew Torrey has turned the front door of his New York apartment into a teleportation device, whisking visitors off to another place and time whenever they drop by. That, at least, was his intention. Mr. Torrey, an interior designer, was raised on a farm in rural Kansas, six miles from the closest neighbors. It’s a…

A few years ago, Khaled Khaled was envisioning a new world order for renters: “I started telling everyone, ‘No one is going to sign apartment leases anymore.’” He made this bold claim at the outset of a 12-month journey that took him around the world, from one apartment to the next — before he arrived…

Calistoga | $4.979 Million A 2009 stone villa with three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guest suite, on a 39-acre lot This estate, which includes an olive grove, a vineyard with cabernet grapes and an art studio made from antique stone, is about 20 minutes from the city center. It…

Greenwich, Conn. | $2.15 Million A 1929 Colonial Revival house with four bedrooms, three full bathrooms and two half bathrooms, on a 0.4-acre lot This house is on a quiet, tree-lined street less than a 10-minute drive from shopping and dining in downtown Greenwich. It is about a mile from Greenwich High School and from…

This week’s properties are waterfront homes in Massapequa, N.Y., and Margate, N.J.

Hardwood floors, beamed ceilings, exposed brick walls, working fireplaces — for many New Yorkers, the elements of a classic rowhouse are as toothsome as a dessert buffet at a wedding. Yet rowhouses have their downsides. If you’re a couple working from home and planning a family, the frequently narrow widths of these buildings somewhat diminish…

Q: I live in a co-op in New York City that doesn’t have a doorman. The front door to the building locks automatically every evening at 9 p.m., and there is an electronic keypad outside that requires a code to open the door. I observe the Sabbath, and cannot use this keypad from Friday sundown…

Chick-fil-A’s new location in New York City has everything you’d expect from the chicken shop: friendly servers, crispy waffle fries and a line of hungry customers. It’s missing just one thing: seats. The shop, which opened on the Upper East Side in March, is the chain’s first to exclusively handle pickup and delivery orders. It’s…

Brasschaat | $1.39 million (€1.295 million) A four-bedroom, two-bath house from 1938 with a thatched roof in the Antwerp suburb of Brasschaat Built in 1938 on about half an acre, this four-bedroom villa with a thatched roof is in Brasschaat, a municipality in northern Belgium about nine miles north of Antwerp and 10 miles south…

Manhattan | 425 Park Avenue South, No. 15A NoMad Co-op $930,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 1,000-square-foot apartment with an open living/dining room, a walk-in closet, built-ins and 11-foot ceilings on the 15th floor of a 20-story prewar building with a part-time doorman, a live-in super, shared laundry, extra storage and a roof deck. Frances Katzen,…

With down payments ticking up in tandem with home prices and interest rates, how long does it take to save up enough to put down on a home? According to a recent study by Zillow, a home buyer making the national median income of $82,156 would have to save for 12 years, assuming a 10…

One man wanted to find a home for his aging parents to retire. One young woman’s mother wanted to raise her family there. Three families wanted their children to go to good schools. The five-story building in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, erected on the site of a former Lutheran church, seemed to be the right fit…

Be careful: The garden wants to have its own way, to blur the lines and refocus those pictures you planned so carefully and then planted. Anyone who has ever tried to create a garden — especially a naturalistic one — learns a few things very quickly. Most emphatically, that change is the only constant. But…

Tal Alexander, whose portfolio of luxury real estate transactions includes some of New York and Miami’s most eye-popping sales, is stepping down from the high-end brokerage he co-founded in the wake of mounting allegations of sexual assault. His exit from Official comes two weeks after Oren Alexander, his younger brother, also stepped down in the…

A home should be a place where you can welcome your extended family — at least that’s what Leah Martin and Vikram Prakash thought. But while they loved entertaining at the house they shared with their three children, the experience wasn’t quite what they had in mind. “What happens is that when everybody comes to…

This week’s properties are five-bedroom homes in Millstone, N.J., and Brewster, N.Y.

Altadena | $2.365 Million A 1917 Craftsman bungalow with five bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.4-acre lot This house, among the first to be built on its street, is a few blocks from Lake Avenue, one of the area’s main thoroughfares. It is less than a 10-minute walk from a coffee shop, a hardware…

Recent college graduates have plenty on their minds this summer: The national unemployment rate ticked up last month, and a widening generational wealth gap is making it harder than ever to buy a first home. Where are they supposed to go now? A new study by Zumper might help. It analyzed the country’s 100 most…

The James A. Bailey residence at St. Nicholas Place and 150th Street in Harlem, built in 1888 for the less flamboyant partner of the Barnum & Bailey team, is a three-ring circus of architectural elements: a Romanesque Revival tower, curvilinear Flemish gables, a high chimney adorned with Tudor roses, even a heraldic carving of a…

Q: A month before I sold my Upper Manhattan co-op, I discovered that I would have to pay a flip tax of 2 percent of the sale price at the closing. It’s a significant amount! When my wife and I bought the apartment in 2013, the seller paid $20 per co-op share for the flip…

Q: A month before I sold my Upper Manhattan co-op, I discovered that I would have to pay a flip tax of 2 percent of the sale price at the closing. It’s a significant amount! When my wife and I bought the apartment in 2013, the seller paid $20 per co-op share for the flip…

For most buyers, mortgages are the cornerstone of purchasing a home. Sometimes a second mortgage is necessary, too, to cover the down payment, for instance. But what happens if that second mortgage seems to have been forgiven but actually still exists? Introducing: the “zombie mortgage.” These aren’t creatures from the underworld, but mortgages that homeowners…

Modrany | $1.5 million (34.6 million Czech koruna) A three-bedroom loft with designated children’s areas in a reimagined aircraft parts factory from 1925 This three-bedroom loft-style apartment is on the ninth floor of a 14-story former aircraft parts factory built in 1925. The industrial building, in Prague’s southern Modrany district, has been renovated and transformed…

This is what happens if you stay put, and keep digging holes: An effort that begins innocently enough — planting a garden at home — may grow on you. And it could morph into an arboretum. Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, a 21-acre expanse in Stone Ridge, N.Y., with about 11 acres under cultivation, got…

Manhattan | 340 East 93rd Street, No. 6C Yorkville Co-op $589,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 700-square-foot apartment with a pass-through kitchen, a large bedroom, ample shelving, and PTAC heating and air-conditioning, on the sixth floor of a 30-story doorman building with a live-in super, a residents’ lounge, a hot tub and sauna, a gym, a…

Summer officially starts on Thursday, and this season is predicted to be hotter than normal — a heat wave across the country this week is expected to affect millions of Americans. In New York, the temperature is forecast to reach 96 degrees by Friday. On Monday, Chicago hit a record-breaking 97 degrees. More than just…

Catskill, N.Y. | $395,000 An 1860 brick rowhouse with two bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 0.05-acre lot This house is a block from Main Street, putting it within easy walking distance of the village’s restaurants, bakeries and art studios. It is a 10-minute walk from the Avalon Lounge, a popular music…

Lake Arrowhead | $1.395 Million A 1949 cottage with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a dock house, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is in the Palisades neighborhood, near Cedar Glen Malt Shop, a popular spot for hamburgers and milkshakes, and the Cedar Glen Inn, a casual restaurant. It is less than a 10-minute drive…

After years of swings and misses, the Yankees legend Derek Jeter has finally found a buyer for his compound in Orange County, N.Y. — after it was re-listed for less than half of its original asking price. The four-acre lakefront home in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., known as Tiedemann Castle, went into contract on May 25,…

Lubbers Quarters Cay | $990,000 A one-bedroom cottage with a studio guesthouse and a dock on Lubbers Quarters Cay. Two cottages connected by a walkway make up this peaceful residence on Lubbers Quarters Cay, a small island off the east coast of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. Each cottage has an en suite bedroom,…

Suffolk | 76 Edgewood Avenue, Smithtown, N.Y. Farmhouse-Style Home $849,000 A four-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath house built in 1900, with a circular driveway, an entry vestibule, a gas fireplace in the living room, a formal dining room, a sunroom, an updated kitchen, laundry on the main level, an unfinished basement and a two-stall barn and tack room,…

Manhattan | 62 East First Street, No. 2S Lower East Side Condo $1.65 million A one-bedroom, one-bath 1,027-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a breakfast bar, a primary suite with a walk-in closet, a den/home office, a washer/dryer, PTAC heating and air-conditioning, and a private terrace, on the second floor of a six-story building…

Denver | $1.285 Million A 1910 Craftsman house with four bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is in Park Hill, a neighborhood known for its wide, tree-lined streets and well-maintained early 20th-century homes. It is next to a small park with a playground, and within a five-minute walk of a coffee…

Summer is almost in full swing and New York is heating up. As the temperatures rise, we want to know how New Yorkers are staying cool — specifically, with water. For an upcoming New York Times story about cooling off at home, we’re looking for the many creative ways people escape the blazing sun. From…

Natale Adgnot didn’t always see the appeal of owning a cabin in the woods. For years, her husband, Sebastien Adgnot, browsed listings for rustic homes in upstate New York and New Jersey from the couple’s apartment in Brooklyn. “But my wife told me, ‘There’s no way I’m going to spend my weekends in a lake…

I was at my station, a folding table dressed up with a burlap cloth, checking in visitors at a Garden Conservancy Open Days event maybe 10 years ago and answering questions from those who had already explored my garden, when I saw someone across the yard taking a photograph. But of what, I wondered —…

Tiburon | $3.295 Million A 1974 house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 0.3-acre lot with views of San Francisco Bay Almost every room in this home has access to outdoor space, and the expansive deck offers views that stretch to the Golden Gate Bridge and Angel Island. The property is a five-minute…

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Norwalk, Conn., and a five-bedroom in White Plains, N.Y.

Manhattan | 269 West 72nd Street, No. 14D Upper West Side Co-op $425,000 A roughly 450-square-foot studio with an entry closet, a windowed kitchen, a dishwasher, a windowed bathroom, window-unit air-conditioning and a hall storage closet, on the 14th floor of a 16-story prewar building with a live-in super, a bike room, a waiting list…

Choosing a good bed frame and mattress is important, but there’s something else that matters nearly as much: The way you dress your bed. Your sheets, pillows and other bedding — and the way they’re arranged — can have a big effect on how appealing your bed is and how good it feels to climb…

Q: I’m a shareholder in a large co-op in Queens. The lease prohibits odors from traveling from one apartment to another, but doesn’t include a smoke-free policy. My elderly downstairs neighbor lives in a rent-stabilized apartment and can no longer go outside to smoke. My bedroom smells like her ashtray, and I have been sleeping…

Saint-Nicolas Parish | €893,000 ($970,000) A five-bedroom loft-style apartment with a private patio in a three-unit building Formerly a commercial storage hanger and now a five-bedroom loft-style apartment, this home is in the Saint-Nicolas parish of the Saint-Genès neighborhood, about two miles south of Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux’s city center. Bounded by the…

Adam Neumann has been doing some downsizing. For several years, the maverick co-founder of what was once the most valuable American start-up, WeWork, has been offloading luxury estates almost as prodigiously as he once stockpiled them. Gone is the 12,000-square-foot manse on 27 Marin County acres with the guitar-shaped living room and three-story water slide….

New York City could soon lose its claim to the tallest building in the United States. The Oklahoma City Council on Tuesday gave the green light to plans for a tower that will rise nearly 2,000 feet in Oklahoma’s capital city, dethroning One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan as the nation’s highest. The California…

Raising children in the best possible environment is a solid reason to relocate. But today’s tough real estate market has slowed migration. In 2023, about 26 million people moved, way down from nearly 43 million in 2019, according to the Census Bureau. All the more reason for parents to carefully consider local resources, support systems,…

A three-bedroom condominium in a converted Gothic Revival church in New Haven, an 1873 rowhouse in Lambertville and a 1938 bungalow in Atlanta.

Whether it’s complaints about air traffic at the East Hampton airport, teenagers partying on the beach or the arrival of Uber and Lyft drivers, the controversies that dominate the news cycle on the East End of Long Island, N.Y., are usually about one thing: noise — and who, in a place where residents are used…

The acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce says his rental application for an apartment in Harlem was denied by a white landlord, and he believes racism is the reason. Mr. Pierce, who is Black, shared his experience on X in a post on Monday night that quickly garnered thousands of comments and shares. In the post, he…

A Brooklyn woman who has been sober for three years needed a roommate. But alcohol would not be allowed in the apartment. Some people thought that was a joke.

When he was growing up in Southwest Detroit, Cristian Rubio was never all that curious about the shuttered train station that loomed over his neighborhood. The building, a couple of miles west of downtown, was among the city’s most visible symbols of urban decay and a go-to for photographers who wanted to capture its decline….

Palm Springs | $1.899 Million A midcentury-modern house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a vintage travel trailer, on a 0.2-acre lot This 1957 house, recently used as a vacation rental, was designed by Palmer & Krisel, an architecture firm responsible for numerous midcentury tract homes in the area. It is a few blocks from…

In Astoria, Queens, amid a row of small brick houses built in 1945 with tile roofs and the occasional gable, sits a home vastly different from its neighbors. The hints are in the bright blue louvers shading the windows and the blue checkerboard patterns embedded in the brick. The shades, as cheerful as geranium beds,…

Most people haven’t been as lucky. Some 900 miles away in Virginia Beach, Talia Phillips and her husband started looking for a trade-up home last summer, after their third child was born. Their daughters, ages 7 and 11, had their own rooms in the family’s three-bedroom house, while the couple shared the third with the…

Standing in front of the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd Street, a person can easily experience a multi-sensory overload — red double-decker tour buses, tourists asking which way the M&M store is, flashy neon-colored billboards and the clanking and whirring of construction sounds. Yet sandwiched in between two buildings — both over 10 stories…

Q: I live in a large market-rate apartment building on the Upper West Side. My landlord placed my security deposit in an interest-bearing account, as required by law. The account only pays 1 percent and the bank sends the full interest earnings to my landlord each month as a fee permitted by New York state….

Belgrano | $2.2 million (1.96 billion Argentine pesos) A three-bedroom apartment with sweeping views in a modern tower near South America’s largest soccer stadium This three-bedroom, five-bath apartment is in Forum Alcorta, a development in the central Belgrano neighborhood with a pair of angled glass-and-concrete towers designed by Buenos Aires architects M|SG|S|S|V, completed in 2016….

Perched on a hill with a view of the Atlantic Ocean, the condo in Virginia Beach was just what Dr. Raven Baxter wanted. It had a marble fireplace, a private foyer and details like crown molding and wainscoting in its three bedrooms and three bathrooms. At $749,000, it was within her budget, too. She offered…

NASSAU | 17 PEMBROKE DRIVE, GLEN COVE, N.Y. Colonial-Style House $2.2 million A four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath house, built in 2002 in a gated waterfront community, with an open dining and living room area, an eat-in kitchen with an island, a den with a gas fireplace, a first-floor en suite primary bedroom, an office with built-in shelving,…

The number of available rentals in New York City grew to 30,314 in April, up nearly 5 percent since last April. That’s good news for prospective renters, but it’s still way down from the 41,123 that were available in April 2019 — and not nearly enough to rectify a shortage that has been decades in…

Many weeks before tomato seedlings can be safely transplanted outside — or almost any freshly seed-sown vegetables dare break the surface of the slowly warming soil — harvest is underway in John Forti’s Maine garden. When you grow a range of perennial edibles, you have what Mr. Forti calls “the shoulder seasons” covered, and then…

Claverack, N.Y. | $3.95 Million A 1766 Dutch farmhouse with five bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on 143 acres This 18th-century brick house, which includes later stone and post-and-beam additions, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was meticulously restored by the seller, Nancy Fuller, a chef who used the…

One of the most famous movie residences is for sale. The “Home Alone” house, in the Chicago suburbs, is on the market for $5.25 million, according to a Zillow listing. “It’s a chance to own a piece of cinematic history,” said the listing, which went live on Friday. The house was last sold in 2012…

For years, Elena Colombo loved the live-work studio she shared with her partner, Mark Lavelle, in an industrial section of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. She had a workshop and office where she could tinker, and was near the artisans and vendors that her company, FireFeatures, needed to make large-scale fire bowls and sculptures. As her business…

Los Angeles | $4.995 Million A 1950 house with four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and a detached studio apartment, on a 0.7-acre lot This house near the top of Coldwater Canyon was designed by Gerard Colcord, a prolific midcentury architect who offered a traditional alternative to the modernist styles popular in Southern California…

When Noah Charney and his wife were house-shopping near Philadelphia, one real estate agent after another claimed to have the ideal home for them, and couldn’t wait to offer a virtual tour of its features: the renovated kitchen, the ample closet space. But the listings never included the image that Dr. Charney, a conservation biologist,…

Share your photos and videos to contribute to a New York Times story about living near elevated train lines in New York City. When sharing photos and videos with us, please follow these criteria: Show us the train when it’s passing and try to include footage from inside your home. Make sure your phone camera…

During the first quarter of 2024, sales of single-family homes in the Hamptons were up 35 percent year-over-year, and sale prices for those homes increased more than 25 percent, according to data from the Elliman Report. What’s driving these increases? “It’s not that everything is appreciating,” explained Jonathan Miller, of Miller Samuel, which prepared the…

Q: I live in a co-op in Midtown East, and I cannot use the intercom in my apartment due to profound deafness. The building hasn’t really done anything to accommodate me. In an emergency, the phone is useless. (The intercoms also don’t function especially well for my hearing neighbors.) I would like to suggest an…

Saint James | $750,000 A two-story, colonial-inspired townhouse with two bedrooms in a golf resort This two-bedroom, two-bath townhouse with Atlantic Ocean views is in the Forest Hills enclave and situated inside the gated Royal Westmoreland golf and beach resort, on the western side of Barbados. Covering about 750 verdant acres overlooking the Caribbean island’s…

Judith Sheindlin, better known as TV’s Judge Judy, is putting her Manhattan home, a duplex penthouse with a wraparound terrace and scenic East River views, on the market for the first time in more than a decade. The asking price for the apartment, at 14 Sutton Place South, in the Sutton Place enclave, is $9.5…

Manhattan | 511 East 82nd Street, No. 4RW Yorkville Penthouse $799,000 A one-bedroom, two-bath, roughly 1,200-square-foot duplex with an updated windowed kitchen, a windowed office nook or walk-in closet and a windowed full bathroom on the first level; a full bathroom, motorized skylights and a washer/dryer on the second level; plus through-the-wall air-conditioning and a…

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Upper Saddle River, N.J., and a four-bedroom in Bronxville, N.Y.

Like the Hamptons itself, where white-sand beaches and white-glove service await those with enough equity each summer, the reality TV show “Selling the Hamptons” is an escape and an indulgence. Now in its second season on Max, the streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, the show follows the cast in the storied vacationland of…

Durham, N.C. | $1.6 Million A Queen Anne Revival house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a 0.7-acre lot This house, built around 1880 by James Manning, a judge, is known locally as the Bull Durham House, because it appeared in the 1988 movie. The sellers updated it, but took care…

Any outdoor space in the city, no matter how small, is a precious thing. “In New York City, if you’re fortunate enough to actually have a terrace or a patio, you’re one of the lucky few,” said Keita Turner, an interior designer based in Manhattan. “Anytime you have something like that, it should be an…

After years of renting houses in the Hamptons, Donna Lennard was ready to buy a place of her own in 2017. And she knew exactly where she wanted to live: on Gerard Drive, in the hamlet of Springs, N.Y., in the town of East Hampton. “It’s a peninsula,” said Ms. Lennard, the owner of Il…

Ryan Sherman’s first job was picking up cigarette butts outside the restaurant where his mom worked. He was 12. A year later he started changing kegs and polishing silverware. “I was a hustler,” he said. “I always worked hard.” So did the people around him. While his mother managed restaurants, his father built single-family homes….

Los Angeles | $1,499,999 A Spanish-style house with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a guesthouse, on a 0.2-acre lot This house is near the border of North Hollywood and Toluca Lake, close to the center of the NoHo Arts District, a bustling neighborhood anchored by an independent movie theater, several performing arts spaces and nightlife…

Lyndon Cormack loves his waterfront house in North Vancouver, Canada, which sits at the bottom of an old forestry road beneath towering cedar and Douglas fir trees. “It feels like you’re in the middle of nowhere,” he said of the home he shares with his girlfriend, Tori Quarles, 34, and two teenage daughters, “even though…

The photographer Susan Kaufman fell in love with the Hamptons at the age of 8. She was seated in the back of her parent’s car, on her way from her childhood home in New Rochelle, N.Y., to visit her aunt and uncle’s East Hampton house for the very first time. It was 1966. Out the…

It was the first New York City home they owned, shortly after the breakup of the Beatles. In the fall of 1971 — two years before moving to the famed Dakota apartment house on the Upper West Side — John Lennon and Yoko Ono had settled downtown, buying a petite loft-style building at 496 Broome…

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…

And the most popular breed and dog name in each.

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,…

Topanga | $2.2 Million A shingled split-level bungalow built in 1931, with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a guesthouse with a full bathroom and a geodesic dome, on a 0.4-acre lot This property, in the Fernwood neighborhood, includes three structures: a main house, a guesthouse and a geodesic dome. It is about five minutes from a…

Furnishing your home with antiques doesn’t have to be expensive — not if you’re willing to do a little restoration work. Take it from Jordan Slocum and Barry Bordelon, better known as the Brownstone Boys. “If you get a piece someone has already spent a lot of time and effort restoring, it’s going to be…

Lee McColgan’s career in finance was probably doomed as soon as he started visiting historic house museums. The first one he toured was the Fairbanks House, in Dedham, Mass., the oldest surviving timber-frame home in America, built in 1637. It was 2014, and Mr. McColgan was living in Omaha, where he worked as a sales…

The auctioneer David Redden remembers seeing the grand Joseph Pulitzer mansion on the Upper East Side from a client’s home in 2000 and thinking it was “the most beautiful house in New York City.” “It was a Venetian palace,” Mr. Redden, now retired as a vice chairman of Sotheby’s and its longest-serving auctioneer, said in…

Q: I am a senior citizen and I live in a modest Cape Cod-style home in northern New Jersey. The house could use some updating and repairs, but I expect to sell it in two to three years. Every house like mine that has sold in the neighborhood in the past five years has been…

It’s as if you discovered that the living room in your new apartment had been painted by Michelangelo. Frank DiLella moved to New York City in 2002 to study journalism and theater at Fordham University. After he graduated, he rented apartments in Astoria, Queens, and in Hell’s Kitchen and on the Upper West Side of…

Bearsden | £625,000 ($785,000) A restored four-bedroom, two-bath semidetached house from the 1930s north of Glasgow. This capacious three story, four-bedroom house sits on a lushly landscaped corner lot in the quiet town of Bearsden, on the northwestern fringe of Greater Glasgow. The home has been expanded with renovations over the years, and the style…

Manhattan | 360 Riverside Drive, No. 7C Upper West Side Co-op $915,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 800-square-foot apartment with an entry foyer, a renovated eat-in kitchen, a living room, a large bedroom with two closets, a windowed marble bathroom, and window-unit air-conditioning, on the seventh floor of a 13-story prewar building with a virtual intercom,…

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It’s one of the costliest actions we take in managing our landscapes — in terms of dollars and environmental damage — and yet we keep cutting down and carting away the remains of trees. Even those that pose no danger to people or property. Basil Camu, a founder of the Leaf & Limb tree-care company…

Wilmette, Ill. | $899,000 A 1916 Frank Lloyd Wright house with three bedrooms, two full and one partial bathroom, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is one of Wright’s American System-Built Homes, his effort at affordable housing using precut pieces assembled inexpensively on site. It is a few blocks from a section of Leahy Park…

Redfin will give home sellers who say they were forced to pay inflated commissions access to its vast, nationwide trove of data on payments made to real estate agents, under a proposed settlement in an ongoing legal fight that has shaken the real estate industry. The online brokerage has access to information from real estate…

When you walk along the towpaths lining London’s 100-mile network of canals, a life on the water can appear idyllic. The boats dotting the winding banks look impossibly charming, romantic, colorful. Even better, they’re cheap to acquire compared with buying a conventional land-based house or apartment in the city. “It’s so peaceful here,” said David…

The National Urban League is moving its headquarters to Harlem, the neighborhood where it was founded in 1910, and will open New York City’s first museum devoted to the American civil rights movement and one of few in the nation to focus on the struggles in the North. The organization was founded in 1910 in…

Los Angeles | $3.195 Million A recently renovated 1956 house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This house is in Studio City, about a mile from the intersection of Ventura and Laurel Canyon Boulevards, putting it within a five-minute drive of a bookstore, a Vons grocery store and…

Q: I rent a market-rate apartment in a three-unit building in Queens, and my neighbor is setting up for major construction. To do the construction safely, they say they need to set up scaffolding on our building’s property in a way that will block our driveway. Access to our garage and use of the driveway…

Manhattan | 444 Central Park West, No. 6H Manhattan Valley Co-op $1.675 million A two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,600-square-foot apartment with an entry closet, a windowed kitchen, a den/home office, en suite bathrooms, ample closets and a washer/dryer, on the sixth floor of a 19-story prewar doorman building with a live-in super, shared laundry, a roof deck…

At first glance, 160 Water Street looks like one of the many office buildings packed close together on the border of the financial district and the Seaport neighborhood of Manhattan. But an office building it is not — at least, not anymore. Pearl House, at 160 Water Street, is the latest in a surge of…

Rua do Embaixador | €790,000 ($847,000) A renovated two-bedroom house with a patio in the Belém neighborhood This two-story townhouse, or “mini villa,” is in Belém, a neighborhood on the Tagus River that is famously marked by its eponymous 16th-century waterfront tower, and by the Monument of the Discoveries, which commemorates Portugal’s legacy of sea…

The stately brick-and-limestone apartment house at 101 Central Park West has been home to many high-profile residents over the years, including the actors Harrison Ford and Rick Moranis and the equestrian Georgina Bloomberg. Some of the residents have stayed for decades. Irwin Segelstein, a TV network executive who also oversaw Columbia Records just as Bruce…

One weekend in 2021, Gemma Warren was doing what she did every weekend: sitting over coffee in her home in Tulum, Mexico, combing through the real estate listings for cabins in the Catskill Mountains of New York. She and her husband, Nick Warren, who are English, had discovered the Catskills several years earlier, while living…

A large tax exemption enjoyed by many American home sellers for the past 27 years has been losing steam recently, according to a new study by CoreLogic. IRS rules allow couples to avoid taxation on up to $500,000 in capital gains — or profit, in lay terms — when selling their primary residence. (The threshold…

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Port Washington and a

HomeServices of America, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States and owned by Warren E. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy, has agreed to settle a series of lawsuits that could change the way commissions are paid to real estate agents. On Thursday, the brokerage signed off on adding $250 million to the mounting…

Provincetown, Mass. | $2.1 Million An 1830 Cape Cod-style house with two bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms and a detached writing studio, on a 0.2-acre lot The owner of this house spent several decades restoring it, focusing on retaining its historic character while adding modern amenities like a gym with a sauna in the…

Tanzania Hughie had a vision. “I was going to come back to New York, get a job and live in a beautiful place,” she said. “That did not happen right away.” Like many before her, Ms. Hughie, a child of the South Bronx, found out just how hard it can be to go home again….

For a long time, Alicia and Craig Oberg disliked their house so much that they didn’t want to invite anyone over. “We were actually embarrassed,” Ms. Oberg said of the house in Plymouth, Minn., which had a dated 1990s interior that “was just so far from what we felt our aesthetic was.” But the 3,800-square-foot…

“If you guys are furniture people, because I’ve really gotten into furniture lately,” Kim Kardashian said in a YouTube video, gesturing toward a large wooden table and set of chairs, “these Donald Judd tables are really amazing and totally blend in with the seats.” When the video — a tour of the Los Angeles offices…

Pasadena | $1.269 Million A 1926 Spanish-style house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This house, which is on the market for the first time in 40 years, is in a historic district in the Casa Grande neighborhood, where many of the homes date to the early 20th century. It is…

The crowd began gathering at 5 p.m., into the movie-perfect backyard of a 1920s Spanish-style Los Angeles estate once owned by Madonna. The air was so soft and eucalyptus-scented you could wrap yourself in it. Glasses clinked. The pool glinted in the slinking sun. In the Santa Monica Mountains above, the Hollywood sign gleamed like…

Faith-based communities “are doing a bit of a dance,” said Ms. Tweeten, who has been advising older people for 17 years. Her father chose to move into a Lutheran-based community in Madison, Wis., in the early 2000s; today, a similar community might call itself Lutheran-inspired. “They don’t want to limit the population that moves in,…

It was a day like any other — the day my home was engulfed by fire. No one on earth or above asked me if I was ready for the shoulder shake. The morning started with a buzzy, two-minute car ride to my daughter’s school. It ended with us — me, my husband, our then…

Q: I live in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn, and my lease is up for renewal. I plan to attend school outside the city and need to sublet my unit. But my lease contains a provision stating that “any form of subletting or assignment of my lease in this affordable housing program is strictly prohibited…

Homeownership has been a touchy subject for Gen Z, as the generation compares its housing fate with that of the millennials who came before them. But have rising housing costs really been harder on Gen Z as its members navigate their 20s? A recent study by RentCafe sheds some light on each generation’s housing burden….

Seafeathers | $1.2 million A solar-powered seafront villa with Caribbean design flourishes With the Caribbean Sea as its backdrop, this three-bedroom, two-bath home from 2005 is in Seafeathers, a residential enclave on Anguilla’s eastern coast. The home enjoys views across the water as far as St. Maarten and St. Bart’s. Sandy Hill Beach, popular with…

Manhattan | 463 West 142nd Street, No. 2A Hamilton Heights Condo $964,000 A two-bedroom, one-bath, 887-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a large primary bedroom, a soaking tub, mini-split heating and air-conditioning, and a washer/dryer, on the second floor of a five-story former convent from 1912 that has been declared a landmark, with a…

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in New Canaan, Conn., and a four-bedroom in Chappaqua, N.Y.

Lexington, Ky. | $695,000 A 1926 brick house with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This house is in Ashland Park, less than a mile from the University of Kentucky and within a 15-minute walk of several university athletic fields. Woodland Park, which has an indoor aquatic center and…

“Don’t throw it ‘away.’ There is no ‘away.’” That waste-conscious message was scrawled on the back of a decades-old pickup in the Nebraska town where Martha Keen grew up. The doctor who drove it could have afforded a new one, but no: The truck had plenty of life left in it. Onward. The phrase “there…

A settlement that will rewrite the way many real estate agents are paid in the United States has received preliminary approval from a federal judge. On Tuesday morning, Judge Stephen R. Bough, a United States district judge, signed off on an agreement between the National Association of Realtors and home sellers who sued the real…

For an upcoming project, The New York Times is hoping to learn more about New Yorkers who live in apartments or homes adjacent to elevated subway tracks. If this is you and you’re interested in sharing your story, we’d love to hear from you about your experience, what you’re regularly hearing or seeing and how…

La Jolla | $4.2 Million A 1987 house with three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is less than a five-minute walk from sandy beaches and the ocean, and less than 10 minutes from a stretch of La Jolla Boulevard with a coffee shop, a grocery store and…

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Mount Kisco, N.Y., and a five-bedroom in Glen Ridge, N.J.

At the architect Philip Johnson’s former estate in New Canaan, Conn., there has long been a Glass House and a Brick House. Now there’s also a Paper House. The Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Paper Log House, to be exact. An exhibition of this simple, low-cost structure — designed in 1995 to house victims…

Q: I am a shareholder in a Riverdale co-op, and the board recently announced a $500,000 assessment that must be paid over the next three years. Based on my calculation, on average, each shareholder will be charged $5,000. The board said the assessments were needed to cover repairs and new city mandates, but was vague…

As soon as he stepped inside the East Village duplex 12 years ago, the theater director David Saint knew that it would be his next home. “I saw about 20 apartments while I was looking to buy, and this was the last one,” he said. “The minute I walked in, I knew.” What sold Mr….

IJburg | €995,000 ($1.05 million) A three-bedroom houseboat in a floating gated community on Amsterdam’s waterfront This three-bedroom houseboat is moored in a gated community in IJburg, an archipelago of several artificial islands with contemporary mixed-use developments on the Amsterdam waterfront. An enclosed-entrance house with a bicycle shed and mailboxes serves as a gateway to…

When baby boomers were buying their first homes in the 1970s and 1980s, it wasn’t unusual to take on a double-digit interest rate on a 30-year mortgage. And yet, buying a home still felt within reach for many. Today, rates are lower but home values have skyrocketed. New research shows that the gap between income…

Manhattan | 341 West 87th Street, No. 1F Upper West Side Co-op $745,000 A roughly 600-square-foot one-bath studio that has a step-down galley kitchen with a dishwasher, a bathroom with a heated towel bar, a queen-size Murphy bed, a lofted den or home office, customized closets, crown molding, French doors, a wood-burning fireplace, 11-and-a-half-foot ceilings,…

As a boy in Tennessee, Jared Barnes learned from his great-grandfather to place his lanky tomato seedlings on their sides when he was transplanting them, so they could root in all along their stems. It was one of many gifts of horticultural knowledge that he derived from their time together. But besides getting young Jared…

Biltmore Forest, N.C. | $1.4 Million A 1927 Tudor Revival cottage with one bedroom and two bathrooms, on a 0.3-acre lot This house is known as the Silversmith Cottage, a reference to the architect and silversmith who designed and once owned it: William Waldo Dodge, who worked extensively in Asheville in the 1920s and 1930s,…

When Sandra Davis and Bruce Levine bought a garden-level duplex in a 1910 townhouse on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, they knew they’d have to accept its quirks, at least for a while. “We loved the large garden space, but the apartment itself felt cramped and dark,” said Mr. Levin, noting that the backyard…

Felicia Russo says her friends tell her she seems calm. But she says she’s freaking out on the inside: Her housing search is keeping her up at night. Also part of the problem: Lately, she finds herself sleeping in a toddler bed. For six years, Ms. Russo, 40, lived on the first floor of a…

Calistoga | $1.75 Million A 1952 house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, along with a barn, a detached office and a gazebo, on a 2.1-acre lot In the late 1860s, Calistoga became a popular vacation destination for residents of San Francisco drawn by the fresh air and natural hot springs. Those hot springs and…

If paying taxes every year makes you think about moving, consider the state and local tax burden, which varies from state to state.

In Scottsdale, Ariz., where the sunny weather lures bachelorette party revelers year-round, short-term rental owners are ready and waiting. Their houses are designed with bright interiors — vibrant wallpaper, neon signs, colorful murals, pops of pink — and resort-like outdoor spaces. There are makeup studios with mirrors, ring lights and swivel chairs where everyone can…

Voula | €1.3 million ($1.41 million) A terraced, two-level Athens Riviera penthouse with sea, sunset and city views. This three-bedroom, three-bath apartment is on the top two floors of a modern five-story building midway between Glyfada and Voula, two development hot spots on the 37-mile strip dubbed the Athens Riviera for its Aegean coast setting….

Q: My mother has bad allergies and had to remove all of the carpets from her home many years ago. Now she’s looking to downsize, and we found a ground-floor apartment in a co-op in Nassau County. But the house rules require wall-to-wall carpeting, with padding, in every room except bathrooms and kitchens — even…

A recent landmark settlement that could significantly change how real estate agents are paid could also have an adverse effect on a sector of potential home buyers who often rely on government-backed mortgages: military veterans. The National Association of Realtors agreed to change its rules to settle a multitude of legal claims from home sellers…

Even if you’re not a big drinker, it’s worth taking the time to set up a home bar. Why? “It shows that you care about people having a good time,” said Jessica Schuster, 38, an interior designer based in New York City. “I’m not a huge drinker myself, but I love to have a home…

Fairfield | 1 Stonehedge Drive South, Greenwich, Conn. Contemporary Home $2.45 million A four-bedroom, three-bath, 3,462-square-foot, rebuilt 1960 home that has a stone front porch, 16 skylights, custom oak floors, a living room with vaulted ceilings and a fireplace, an eat-in kitchen with custom bamboo cabinetry and a wine fridge, a sunken family room with…

Manhattan | 200 Central Park South, No. 3C Central Park South Co-op $995,000 A one-bath 650-square-foot studio apartment with an updated kitchen, a dishwasher, a lofted sleeping area and a balcony on the third floor of a 35-story doorman building with a concierge, live-in super, public parking garage, gym, a roof deck, a bike room,…

Have topiary (and eclipse glasses), will travel. Ken Selody, of Atlock Farm, put out the word in January: He had researched the path of totality of this week’s solar eclipse and considered optimal viewing possibilities. In early April, he planned to be Texas-bound. “If I drove my van full of topiary through Tennessee, Arkansas and…

Charles Town, W.V. | $425,000 A 1940 Colonial Revival house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.5-acre lot This house sits on a wide, tree-lined street near the center of Charles Town, less than a mile from a brewery, a used book store and a local history museum on Washington Street, the city’s…

Manhattan | 3 Hanover Square, No. 13F Financial District Co-op $1.495 million A two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,400-square-foot apartment with marble countertops, a dining nook, a large primary suite, 11-foot ceilings, ample closets, a washer/dryer and window-unit air-conditioning, on the 13th floor of a 23-story prewar doorman building with a live-in super, shared laundry and shared storage….

After Doris Kearns Goodwin’s husband died nearly six years ago, the couple’s home, a 19th-century farmhouse in Concord, Mass., no longer felt right. “We were there for 20 years,” said Ms. Kearns Goodwin, 81, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose new book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” will be published April…

A five-minute walk to work and around $600 a month in rent was hard to pass up in 1990. Rodolfo Calica worked as a parking attendant at Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, Brooklyn. His wife, Queenie Calica, also began working there in the 2000s as a housekeeper. It made sense to them to move…

Riverside | $895,000 A 1929 Spanish-style house with two bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms and a guest suite with a full bathroom and separate exterior entrance, on a 0.3-acre lot This house is at the base of Mount Rubidoux, in a quiet neighborhood about five minutes from the center of the city. The sellers,…

If there is a word for people who behave like terriers, tucking themselves into cramped spaces that would drive others into fits, it probably has not been invented. But it would describe Liz Gilson. Born in France to American parents, Ms. Gilson spent several childhood years living in a stately home in England where she…

Sarah-Mai Miller and Heath Miller lived in 10 different houses and apartments in 17 years. The couple owned three of those houses — an 1800s saltbox in Greenport on Long Island and a modern cozy cabin and a glass cabin, both in a town called Milan in upstate New York. The couple’s ventures in real…

Q: I recently signed a contract with Compass to have them represent me in the sale of my Manhattan apartment. The contract provides for a commission of 5 percent, which includes the commission for the buyer’s agent. Does the recent news about real estate commissions and which party pays them mean that I can demand…

The Justice Department will reopen an antitrust investigation into the National Association of Realtors, an influential trade group that has held sway over the residential real estate industry for decades. The investigation will focus on whether the group’s rules inflate the cost of selling a home. The renewed federal inquiry comes after the U.S. Court…

Condesa | 12.9 million Mexican pesos ($777,000) A two-bedroom, two-bath condominium facing a leafy park in a lively historic neighborhood. This sunny condominium in Mexico City’s elegant Condesa neighborhood, with spaces for living, working and entertaining, overlooks the treetops of Parque Mexico. Built in 1985 and remodeled in 2004 by the Mexican design and architecture…