Category: Real Estate

It’s hard enough buying a first home these days. Who on Earth is out there buying a second one? The wealthy, mostly: In 2023, sales of luxury second homes increased in many U.S. markets. A study from Pacaso, a company specializing in brokering co-ownership home purchases, parsed data from the real estate analytics firm First…

This week’s properties are four-bedroom homes in Mill Neck, N.Y., and Haddonfield, N.J.

Leeds, N.Y. | $3.2 Million A four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom farmhouse built in 1850 and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse, on a 205-acre lot This expansive property is in a small hamlet in Greene County, about 15 minutes from the town of Greenville, which has a supermarket, a farm supply store and a drive-in movie theater, and within…

Flower pots, they are not. But Stephen Procter’s large stoneware garden vessels, some as tall as five feet and incorporating 250 pounds of clay, are nevertheless functional pottery — even without the soil and the plants. In the clay world, he said, there’s always talk about functional versus nonfunctional pottery, attempting to draw a line…

A year later, in spring 2018, when Ms. Porter and Mr. Porter, 46, who works in tech security, were getting ready to remodel the house, they did not know that the Internal Revenue Service had recently levied a nearly $75,000 tax lien against Mr. Yeiser and that he and his wife had filed for bankruptcy…

When Cailey Heaps wants to get away from it all, one place comes to mind: the island of Newfoundland in Canada. Although she spends most of the year in Toronto, where she runs the real estate brokerage Heaps Estrin and raises her three children — 17-year-old Mimi and 13-year-old twins Declan and Pippa — the…

The last time Arlene Schulman went looking for an apartment, the internet was only in its infancy. “I did what everyone did 30 years ago,” Ms. Schulman said, “I asked everyone I knew if they knew about an available apartment.” Like most other apartment hunters in the 90s, she also rushed to grab a copy…

Los Angeles | $2.35 Million A renovated 1922 bungalow with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse, on a 0.2-acre lot This house was renovated by Barbara Bestor, recognized by the American Institute of Architects for her contributions to local residential and commercial architecture. It is in Eagle Rock, a few blocks from…

It may not feel like spring yet — but it is. And as the temperature rises, the stuff you bring into and out of your home changes: Instead of heavy coats and snow boots, you’ll need umbrellas and rain boots, and eventually sunglasses and flip-flops. That means your entryway — whether it’s a foyer, a…

Manhattan | 400 Central Park West, No. 11D Manhattan Valley Condo $1.95 million A two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,140-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a breakfast bar, a dining alcove, a primary suite with a walk-in closet and a balcony on the 11th floor of a 19-story doorman building with a live-in super, a package room,…

Maurice Kanbar never saw the sense in accepting things as they were. The lifelong inventor and entrepreneur, who died in 2022 at age 93, developed, among other things, a comb for “defuzzing” sweaters, New York’s first multiplex cinema, and Skyy vodka, which he — somewhat dubiously — claimed wouldn’t leave you with a hangover. Tall…

Q: A year ago, when I applied for a market-rate apartment in the Bronx, the landlord required that I get a lease rental bond from a bond company. I have a good credit score, but the agent said my liquid assets were below the required threshold. In addition to the bond, I had to give…

The historical function of members’ clubs — to stratify the city by gender, race or class — persists today. Aman New York, which opened in 2022, has offered a membership with an initiation fee of $200,000, plus annual dues. Exclusive access to Casa Cruz, which opened the same year, came at a price of $250,000…

Via delle Muratte | 829,000 euros ($896,000) A one-bedroom walk-up apartment near the Trevi Fountain This one-bedroom, one-bath apartment is on the top floor of a four-story 18th-century building near the Trevi Fountain. Built in the Renaissance style, it features cornices above the windows and wood shutters. An inscription above the main entry has the…

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

When Rhonda Burnett went to sell a home in 2016, she knew she would have to pay a commission to her real estate agent. The house was a second home — she and her husband, Scott Burnett, had purchased the three-bedroom house in Kansas City’s Hyde Park neighborhood as a place for their oldest son…

Phoenixville, Pa. | $750,000 A renovated 1840 schoolhouse with three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms and a guesthouse, on a 2.6-acre lot This home, known as the Old Pickering Schoolhouse, still has much of its interior woodwork intact, along with its belfry (and the bell inside it). It is about a five-minute drive from…

The oceanfront Eden Roc Hotel is an icon of Miami Modernist architecture, a style that epitomized the postwar glamour and grandeur of Miami Beach. Two turquoise panels wrap the white facade. The oval canister perched atop the building resembles a cruise ship’s funnel. Crooners like Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, and Sammy Davis, Jr., stayed and…

Manhattan | 750 Park Ave., No. 16D Upper East Side Co-op $629,000 A roughly 500-square-foot studio apartment that has a windowed kitchen with a dishwasher, a dressing room, a windowed bathroom, an electric fireplace, large tilt-and-turn windows and through-the-wall air-conditioning, on the 16th floor of a 17-story doorman building with a live-in resident manager, porters,…

A Black couple who claimed an appraisal company undervalued their Baltimore home based on their race have settled their lawsuit against their mortgage lender, loanDepot, which has agreed to a number of sweeping policy changes that could offer significant relief to homeowners who allege racially biased appraisals in the future. Under the settlement, Dr. Nathan…

San Francisco | $1.265 Million A two-bedroom, two-bathroom condominium in a 1906 building with three units This condominium is in Cow Hollow, a few blocks from the Fillmore Street shopping corridor and from walking trails winding through the Presidio, one of the city’s largest public parks. It is less than a mile from the Palace…

Rejected by more than two dozen bond companies, Donald J. Trump has so far been unable to come up with the nearly half-a-billion dollar penalty owed by Monday in his civil fraud trial. Just days before the deadline, the former president’s social media company completed a merger — a move that is poised to pump…

For the last several years, the gallery owner Leo Koenig has been busy creating his own work of art: his West Village home. The sprawling duplex, at 259 West Fourth Street, which he shares with his partner, Jennifer Lyu, a top executive at the fashion brand Kate Spade, is made up of three apartments that…

Q: My husband and I have lived in a co-op in Westchester County for 37 years. It’s a three-story building that prohibits dogs as pets, and we’ve always had a great relationship with the other residents. But nine months ago, our upstairs neighbors acquired an emotional support dog for their teenager. The dog runs back…

La Minerve | $995,000 Canadian ($735,000) An A-frame lakefront chalet with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a wraparound balcony and a private dock. Set on the shore of Lake Chapleau, a popular fishing spot, this peaked-roof chalet is in La Minerve, a municipality in the Laurentians region of Quebec. Mont-Tremblant, with its ski resorts, golf courses,…

A triumphant mood hung in the air at the East Village cafe Boris & Horton, as good boys and good girls scampered, barked, sprawled and ogled an array of treats. “We’re here two times a day during the week,” said Monica Hu, a longtime customer, with her three pugs at her feet last Sunday. “There’s…

Last week, the National Association of Realtors settled a series of lawsuits brought by home sellers, agreeing to pay $418 million in damages and eliminate its longstanding rules on broker commissions. The deal, which still needs a federal court’s approval, would eliminate the standard 6 percent commission on home sales and pave the way for…

Nassau | 5 Tredwell Drive, Old Westbury, N.Y. Ranch-Style House $2.35 million A five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath house from 1953, with an entry foyer, a formal dining room, an eat-in kitchen, a sunken living room with a fireplace, a family room, an en suite primary bedroom, a finished lower level with a fireplace and access to the…

San Francisco | $1.485 Million A three-bedroom, one-and-a-quarter-bathroom condominium in a 1909 Edwardian house This floor-through apartment is in a building near Mission Dolores Park, one of the city’s most beloved outdoor spaces, with picnic areas, a playground and tennis courts. It is also just a few blocks from Mission San Francisco de Asis, a…

To fit into Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, known for its brownstones and low-key style, new buildings must follow a pattern: be stately but not flashy, and above all honor the integrity of the neighborhood. Buildings in Boerum Hill are much lower-profile than the skyscrapers in nearby Downtown Brooklyn and parts of Prospect Heights. One of the…

As Giovanni Botta and Amanda Pinegar began planning their renovation of the house they bought in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, they knew one thing for sure: The kitchen would have to be pink. “We had already decided on the refrigerator, which is pink,” said Ms. Pinegar, 44, a ceramic artist. “And we wanted a kitchen that…

In the aftermath of the recent legal settlement calling for the National Association of Realtors to amend its rules on how Realtors are compensated for a home sale, many home buyers and sellers across the United States are wondering how the changes will affect them. That’s especially true in New York City, where most real…

Altin Sencalar’s timing could hardly have been worse. “New York is the destination for jazz,” said Mr. Sencalar, a jazz trombonist. So a year and a half ago, he and his wife, Marina Sencalar, signed on — sight unseen — to an apartment in Washington Heights. Mr. Sencalar planned to perform and teach, as he…

San Rafael | $3.995 Million A 2001 Victorian-style house with five bedrooms and four bathrooms, on a 0.3-acre lot This house was built to replace a Victorian house that burned down 100 years after it was built on this lot, and the designers attempted to recreate as many Victorian-era details as possible. It is about…

Q: I am a senior citizen and have lived for almost 50 years in a small building in Queens. My apartment is the only rent-stabilized unit in the building. The landlord is installing a new heating system in the building, which will involve major work in my apartment to install new pipes. The current system…

The two-bedroom penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Eiffel Tower and just about every other monument across the Paris skyline. The rent, at 600 euros a month, is a steal. Marine Vallery-Radot, 51, the apartment’s tenant, said she cried when she got the call last summer that hers was among 253 lower-income families chosen…

La Villette | €1.39 million ($1.5 million) A two-bedroom, two-bath industrial loft entered through a private courtyard near the Canal de l’Ourcq This two-bedroom loft is in the vibrant La Villette district, formerly a neighborhood of slaughterhouses in northeast Paris that has been undergoing redevelopment since the 1980s. The 136-acre La Villette Park, with concert…

A settlement reached this week threatens to strike a blow to an established standard of residential real estate: the 6 percent sales commission. It also will change who pays it. The deal, reached after a yearslong court battle initially brought by a group of home sellers in Missouri, calls for the powerful National Association of…

The sidewalks surrounding Central Park were designed to help you escape. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the landscape architects behind the landmark, proposed in their 1858 planning document to plant a plush line of trees to separate the sidewalk and the road, “for the purpose of concealing the houses on the opposite side of…

Manhattan | 100 Claremont Avenue, No. 10C Morningside Heights Condo $1.195 million A one-bedroom, one-bath, 810-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a breakfast bar, a large marble bathroom with a double vanity, a walk-in closet, casement windows, central air-conditioning and a washer/dryer, on the 10th floor of a 41-story doorman new development with a…

As if it weren’t difficult enough to find a home to buy these days, a new study reveals that more than a third of all American homeowners plan to stay in their current homes forever. Researchers at This Old House analyzed data from the American Community Survey and the U.S. Census Bureau to find which…

Shattering the glass ceiling isn’t always a goal — not if you’re a certain beloved lemon tree growing in a Victorian-era greenhouse. The tree in question, a Ponderosa lemon planted almost 125 years ago by the founder of Logee’s nursery, in Danielson, Conn., has been pruned to stay within bounds by three generations of his…

Grand Gorge, N.Y. | $550,000 A 2021 A-frame cabin with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 1.8-acre lot This house is five minutes from Prattsville, a Greene County town with a diner, a tavern and a grocery store, and a 10-minute drive from a number of Catskill Mountains hiking and biking trails. Hunter Mountain,…

This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, interiors and products. Lucía Cano and José Selgas are architects who have no fear of color. Founders of the studio SelgasCano in Madrid, they designed a conference center in Cartagena, Spain, that looks like a translucent organ glowing orange from within…

The cedar-shingled house that Andre Dubus III built for his family in the seaside town of Newbury, Mass., has four levels that sprawl across 6,000 square feet, with plenty of rooms that could have made a nice writer’s office. But Mr. Dubus plies his trade down in the mechanical room, near the exercise equipment and…

Other designers have disguised doors to home bars. Tammy Connor, an interior designer, and D. Stanley Dixon, an architect, added a tiny bar to the library of a 1930s home in Atlanta, tucking it behind a narrow door faced with the room’s blue-painted paneling. And in a New York penthouse apartment, Yellow House Architects and…

Glendale | $1.195 Million A 1952 house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.1-acre lot This recently updated house is on a sloping street in the Woodbury neighborhood, about a five-minute drive from public elementary, middle and high schools, and 10 minutes from the Americana at Brand shopping center and the Glendale Galleria…

Q: I am on the board of a small co-op in Manhattan. One of our residents is very private, and possibly a hoarder. He refuses to allow anyone to enter his apartment, even the super. The managing agent has tried contacting this resident by phone and by letter so he can investigate a foul smell…

In an ever-changing Downtown Brooklyn, high-rise apartment buildings nearing completion are a familiar sight. But there’s something a bit different about the one at 505 State Street. This 44-story, 440-unit rental building is to be the first all-electric building in New York City, a claim that was confirmed by the Department of Buildings. Functions that…

Nunhead Green | £795,000 ($1.01 million) A semi-attached, renovated two-bedroom, one-bath Victorian cottage with a contemporary interior and front and rear gardens. This updated house, with a traditional Victorian exterior and contemporary interior, is on a quiet street in Southeast London’s Nunhead Green Conservation Area, close to a small village area with a new community…

Dividing the marital home in divorce can be a financially and emotionally fraught experience.

On the national level, rental rates have flattened over the past year — which is good news following the head-spinning increases of 2022 into 2023. But as Zumper’s February rent report points out, how much a renter should expect to pay in 2024 is highly dependent on where they live, with a record amount of…

Manhattan | 138 Edgecombe Avenue, No. 1A Central Harlem Garden Duplex $700,000 A one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 900-square-foot garden-level duplex with a large foyer, an eat-in kitchen with an integrated dishwasher, a full bathroom, a bedroom and a balcony on the first level; and a living area, office nooks, a half bath, a washer and a vented…

This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, interiors and products. In the lineup of climate villains, architecture towers above many. The building and construction industries account for some 37 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Program. Three of the most commonly used…

Southwest Harbor, Maine | $949,000 A circa 1900 cottage with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This house is in Southwest Harbor, a small town on Mount Desert Island. It is less than a five-minute drive from the popular campgrounds, hiking trails and beaches in Acadia National Park, and about the same…

As families grow and space needs change, the conventional move is to trade one home for another. Rebecca Rudolph and Colin Thompson would say it doesn’t have to be that way. Instead of moving, you can change your home, time and again, to meet those evolving needs. “We’ve been in our house almost 24 years,”…

The American jazz musician John Coltrane bought a three-story brick rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood in 1952, using it as his primary residence or a stopping point when on tour until he died in 1967. “I remember playing the upright piano in the home,” said Ravi Coltrane, 58, the son of Coltrane and his…

HomeServices of America, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States and owned by Warren E. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy, is now at the center of a nationwide antitrust lawsuit with potential implications on the structure of real estate commissions nationwide. On Monday, three home sellers who filed an antitrust lawsuit in October…

When the pandemic began, Susannah Dalton and José Ignacio Vivero were living in a basement apartment in Sunnyside, Queens. “It wasn’t bad during Covid,” Ms. Dalton said, “because it had a strong bunker feel and that was the vibe back then. This was back in the early days when we were, like, Windexing groceries.” But…

On a sunny Bronx morning late last year, an all-star team of stained-glass experts prepared to enter a dank 1894 tomb at Woodlawn Cemetery that had been opened just once in the past century. The mausoleum at hand held the remains of José Maria Muñoz, a Panamanian-born New York merchant and son of a Spanish…

In a market with high prices, low inventory and high mortgage interest rates, no one faces a steeper uphill climb than first-time home buyers. Generally, they have lower incomes and are younger, meaning they’ve had less time to build good credit and amass a down payment. But there is hope. A new study from Realtor.com…

Q: Here at Ask Real Estate, we recently received a reader’s question about poor treatment by mortgage servicers. Many first-time home buyers don’t realize that the lender that approves their mortgage could turn around and sell the servicing rights to a company they’ve never heard of. Now the homeowner might have to deal with a…

Rachel Rodman always dreamed of owning her own home, but life kept getting in the way. She became a mother at 19, then went through a complicated divorce that left her financially depleted. For many years, she felt resigned to renting with her son, James, now 14. Ms. Rodman, 33, earns a steady income as…

Tommy Tune, the Broadway song-and-dance man, is selling a penthouse at the Southgate, a prewar co-op complex designed by Emery Roth on a quiet cul-de-sac facing the East River. Mr. Tune, 85, owns another penthouse in the complex, but “now that I have retired, I really only need one of these apartments,” he said in…

Manhattan | 67 West 107th Street, No. 1 Manhattan Valley Condo $875,000 A two-bedroom, one-bath, 708-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a windowed porcelain bathroom, a home office, a washer/dryer and window-unit air-conditioning, on the first floor of a five-story walk-up from 1909 with a live-in super and a bike room. Samantha Rose Frith…

Nassau | 16 Fonda Road, Rockville Centre, N.Y. Four-Bedroom Tudor $899,000 A four-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 1,776-square-foot house from 1932 with an entry foyer, a formal living room with a wood-burning fireplace, a formal dining room, a screened-in porch, an eat-in kitchen, an office, a main-floor washer/dryer, an attic, a finished basement and an attached two-car garage,…

Whenever Danae Vega, 33, took a shower in her Southern California home, it was an ordeal. The pipes were broken, so the water didn’t drain. Each time, she would have to ask her younger brothers to manually remove the water so the next person in the family of eight could take a shower. Demanding that…

St. Louis | $1.999 Million An 1896 Beaux-Arts mansion with eight bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and two half bathrooms, on a 0.4-acre lot This house was built for Lewis Dozier, a commercial baker whose business became part of Nabisco. Mr. Dozier, a member of several social clubs, loved to entertain, and his house has a…

Randa Martin always wanted high ceilings. Her partner, Richard Lebehn, longed for a chef’s kitchen like the ones in all the restaurants where he had worked. The couple started getting closer to building their dream home after they moved in 2009 to the Saint Regis Mohawk Reservation, otherwise known Akwesasne, where Ms. Martin was born…

On a cold winter day, there’s nothing better than a cozy room that invites you to sink into a comfortable chair and curl up with a fuzzy throw. “No matter what type of home I’m working on, whether it skews more contemporary or more traditional, my goal is always to create something that’s cozy, warm…

The stairs creaked in Jen Gorgano’s childhood home. Recalling those sounds makes Ms. Gorgano smile. “Growing up, we would always know who was running up and down the steps by how loud it was,” she said. The creak is still there. So is Ms. Gorgano. She is in the process of buying the four-bedroom house…

A recently renovated house in Yucca Valley, a three-bedroom home in Benicia and a one-bedroom condominium in Laguna Niguel.

Want to create a living fence? Or maybe you’d like to produce bountiful harvests of leaves and twigs to feed livestock, or simply enliven a winter landscape with fiery color? There’s a willow for that. Lisa Carper and Aric Vanselous have a willow for all of those purposes, and then some. In their trove of…

Q: I lease a three-bedroom market-rate apartment in Brooklyn. I rent out two of the bedrooms, but the situation with my roommates is deteriorating for personal and financial reasons. The rent I charge them is way below market rate, and I’ll have to raise it significantly or ask the occupants to leave. I don’t have…

Manhattan | 530 East 76th Street, No. 14C Upper East Side Condo $1.25 million A one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 953-square-foot apartment with a windowed galley kitchen, an open living and dining room, a primary bedroom with a marble en suite bathroom, a den or home office and ample closets, on the 14th floor of a 39-story doorman…

Victoria Sass, an interior designer in Minneapolis, had long dreamed of owning an R.V. so she and her family could hit the open road with their living quarters attached. “I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, with a Volkswagen van,” said Ms. Sass, 40, who had fond memories of traveling with her family in their…

Many of the growing contingent of renters would like to know just where their housing dollars stretch the furthest. A new study by RentCafe attempts to answer the question by comparing the median rent and the cost of utilities, food, health care, transportation and other essential goods and services in various U.S. metros. Generally, it…

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Scarsdale, N.Y., and a six-bedroom in Leonia, N.J.

Elliott Erwitt had already gained worldwide renown for his memorable photographs of the famous and whimsical when he settled into his grand apartment at 88 Central Park West in the late 1960s. His home, on the eighth floor of the 12-story Brentmore co-op, at the corner of West 69th Street, cost around $75,000 at the…

New Braunfels, Texas | $295,000 A 1920 cottage with two bedrooms and one bathroom, on a 0.2-acre lot This house, once part of a church complex, was moved to its current location last year and renovated. New plumbing and electrical systems were installed, and the home was furnished with antique and vintage pieces that are…

After years of renting, Jackson Owens and Flora Jin bought a loft in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and it felt like the stuff of dreams. A week or so later, it was more like a nightmare. A few floors above them there was a gas leak, then an explosion. When the sprinklers came on, many of the…

It was war that drove Alona Hamova from her home, but, in a way, she always knew she was destined to leave. “I felt like I didn’t fit there,” she said. She grew up in Novovasylivka, a small Ukrainian village just a few miles from the port city of Berdyansk, in the east of the…

Beverly Hills | $4.195 Million A 1924 Mediterranean-style house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a 1.3-acre lot This house is just off Coldwater Canyon, less than a 10-minute drive from Franklin Canyon Reservoir and the walking trails winding around it. It is three miles from Sunset Boulevard, putting it within…

Finding a home has been so difficult lately. Is it worth buying one as a short-term rental? Yes — but not everywhere — suggests a report from AirDNA. Revenues for short-term rentals faded in 2023 after two years of intense growth, but researchers at AirDNA expect those revenues to grow again in 2024. To locate…

In the world of real estate, Donald J. Trump’s name has long been synonymous with luxury. At one of his buildings in Manhattan, a five-story waterfall slides down a wall of Breccia Perniche marble. White-gloved doormen, cascading chandeliers and panoramic views of the city’s skyline are the hallmarks of another. It’s that image of luxury,…

Jes’ka Washington lives in a six-bedroom house on a hill with avocado trees and a spectacular view, not far from the rabbit farm she runs. For less than $50,000, Shoshana Kirya-Ziraba and her husband built a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house on family farmland with goats, turkeys and about a thousand chickens. Mark and Marlene Bradley now…

Q: In May 2019, I purchased a condominium from the sponsor in a brand-new building in Brooklyn. From the beginning there were issues with the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system. The problems persist and affect the whole building. The repair cost is now $90,000. The company that installed the HVAC system filed for bankruptcy. The…

Wallpaper is a powerful design tool that can transform a room. You start with a white box and end up with what feels like an entirely different space, wrapped in an intricate floral design or a bold geometric pattern. But which one: Intricate or bold? Floral or geometric? With so many colors and patterns available,…

The New School’s Greenwich Village townhouse, an elegant 19th-century brick building that has served as a residence for university presidents and a venue for school functions for the last four decades, is now on the market. The asking price is $20 million, according to the listing brokers, Nikki Field and Mara Flash Blum of Sotheby’s…

Manhattan | 212 West 72nd Street, No. 4A Lincoln Square Condo $2.15 million A two-bedroom, two-bath, 992-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a breakfast bar, a marble en suite bathroom, through-the-wall heating and air-conditioning, a washer/dryer and keyless entry, on the fourth floor of a 20-story doorman building from 2010 with a courtyard, roof…

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Westport, Conn., and a three-bedroom in Massapequa, N.Y.

A 1910 cottage in St. George, a three-bedroom townhouse in Asheville and an early 19th-century farmhouse in Lakeville.

The best view of New York City might just be in a near-windowless conference room on the 12th floor of a Midtown Manhattan office building. Splayed across 10 folding tables, a map pieced together with paper, tape and sticky notes details every block and parcel — 27,649 properties — in Manhattan below 96th Street on…

Lillias White may pay the rent, but her rescue dog, LaKee, is inarguably the host and star of the house, a very packed one-bedroom apartment on the top floor of a building in Harlem. LaKee (pronounced “Lucky”), a Chihuahua mix, is the first to respond to a knock on the door — way ahead of…

CoStar Group, the $34 billion real estate analytics company, slammed into its Super Bowl debut with four high-gloss commercials on Sunday night, buying up more airtime than Pepsi and even the perennial favorite Budweiser, which each only purchased two multimillion slots on football’s biggest night. The commercials — three for CoStar subsidiary Homes.com and one…

Palm Springs | $3.695 Million A midcentury-modern house with four bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 0.3-acre lot This 1963 house is in the bustling Old Las Palmas neighborhood, a few blocks from Palm Canyon, with easy access to shopping and dining on Palm Canyon Drive. It is a 10-minute walk from a coffee shop,…

Is love transactional? When it comes to moving in together and splitting the rent, yes. A study of January 2024 rents by ApartmentAdvisor, an apartment search and data website, found that a couple could save over $26,000 a year when splitting a one-bedroom in New York, the city with the most expensive median one-bedroom rents….

Q: We have two rooftop lounges on top of our Hell’s Kitchen condominium building, where I serve on the board. Residents use them and sometimes rent them for private events. There are maximum capacities for the lounges listed in the building’s offering plans, but they seem too low — the spaces have double doors and…

People around the country are building private rinks — some with as little as a garden hose and patience.

This is the story of two athletic people who formed an attachment while cycling and made a home together near the coast of Maine. They built a small, energy-efficient house northwest of Camden that is comfortable throughout the year: in frigid season, sopping season, insect season. It’s got it. This is also the story of…

Manhattan | 613 East Sixth Street, No. 5A Alphabet City Duplex $950,000 A two-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 900-square-foot co-op duplex with an open floor plan, a windowed kitchen with a vented range and a washer/dryer on the first level; two bedrooms and a full bath on the second level; and mini-split heating and air-conditioning throughout, on…

This week’s properties are four-bedroom homes in Nissequogue, N.Y., and Surf City, N.J.

The Clematis that delight Alla Olkhovska the most among the 120 or so types she grows are not the familiar, large-flowered hybrids, as extravagantly beautiful as they are. It’s the small, less frequently grown species — the ones whose common names often include the phrase “leather flower,” many of them native to the Southeastern United…

Irvington, Va. | $450,000 A 2004 Carpenter Gothic-style house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 2.1-acre lot Just three hours outside the Washington metro area, with easy access to the Rappahannock River and Chesapeake Bay, Irvington has become a popular second-home and retirement destination. This house is in a small community less than…

A former executive at a prominent New York City development firm that collapsed amid an avalanche of investor lawsuits and foreclosures was arrested this week and is expected to be charged in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme, according to several people with knowledge of the case. The developer, Nir Meir, was taken into custody…

Julia Lippman and Mathew Eapen love antique homes, but they’re not typical old-house enthusiasts — or purists when it comes to decorating. “I love old houses, the quirks and the tall ceilings,” Ms. Lippman, 37, said. But “I did not want a house full of really big, dark antiques.” The couple, who are both lawyers,…

Emily Zaboski sometimes struggles to describe her living situation to people she meets. “Everybody we know is like, ‘Wait, so you just — you have two apartments?’ And I’m like, ‘Well, no, but kind of,’” she said. Ms. Zaboski technically has just one apartment. She and her roommate Jinn Liu moved into a three-bedroom apartment…

Everybody at a skating rink smiles. Ever notice this? The teenagers in hockey skates racing from one side to the next. The moms gently guiding their I-don’t-know-about-this children along the ice. The couples (there are always couples) holding hands out of affection and a desire to stay vertical. Skaters determined to stay on their feet…

Q: My luxury condo building in Manhattan has fallen into disrepair, and the board of managers is thwarting efforts to improve it. Over the past 10 years, we’ve been unable to reach a quorum for the annual meeting, which has prevented any new candidates from joining the board or voting for any real changes. The…

Q: My luxury condo building in Manhattan has fallen into disrepair, and the board of managers is thwarting efforts to improve it. Over the past 10 years, we’ve been unable to reach a quorum for the annual meeting, which has prevented any new candidates from joining the board or voting for any real changes. The…

Have you been dreaming of a three-bedroom home? You’re probably a millennial, the generation now likeliest to be raising children. You’re also probably still dreaming, according to the data. A recent analysis by Redfin found that empty nesters — that is, baby boomer households with no children in the home — own 28 percent of…

Fairfield | 196-200 Franklin St. Extension, Danbury, Conn. Six-Bedroom Contemporary $2.199 million A six-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bath, 7,563-square-foot home built in 1988 that has an open family room with a kitchen and dining area, lots of windows and deck access; a first-floor en suite primary bedroom with a fireplace, walk-in closet, soaking tub and patio; a formal…

Making the most of whatever space you have is just good sense — whether you’ve recently bought your dream home or, like many people, are staying put until the housing market calms down. The obvious place to start? Your bedroom. Sure, it’s used for sleeping at night, but what about the rest of the time?…

The hat-making business had successes — a mention in Women’s Wear Daily and wares sold in Barneys, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and at a Bergdorf Goodman trunk show. “We were in every one of those crusty old lady shops,” Mr. Tyler-Leonard said. In “Party Monster,” Mr. St. James described the apartment as “a…

The New York state comptroller has asked the real estate brokerage eXp Realty to open an independent investigation into sexual harassment and assault allegations exposed in a New York Times article last month. As New York’s chief fiscal officer, the comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, is the trustee of the New York State Common Retirement Fund. According…

Los Angeles | $2.2 Million A three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom storybook cottage built in 1926, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is in the hills above Laurel Canyon, less than a five-minute drive from Hollywood Boulevard and less than 10 minutes from the nightlife on the Sunset Strip. It is also close to Canyon Country Store, a…

The housing crisis has become so extreme that there is now not a single state, metropolitan area, or county in the United States where a person earning the federal minimum wage can afford market rent on a modest two-bedroom apartment. Homelessness is growing. Tens of thousands of people have resorted to living out of their…

Q: Six months ago, while I was out of town, there were two unattended deaths in my 60-unit co-op building in Brooklyn. The bodies were eventually discovered and removed. My apartment is above the unit where this occurred, and I returned to flies and a smelly apartment. Two months later, the co-op board got a…

If Gen Z can’t afford the rent, how are they ever going to buy a home? A recent study by Point2 examined housing markets in 100 of the largest U.S. cities, using earnings and employment data to find the places where Gen Z-ers have the best and worst chances of buying a home. Older Gen…

Manhattan | 315 West 70th Street, No. 4E Lincoln Square Co-op $675,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 750-square-foot apartment with a galley kitchen, an open living/dining area, a walk-in closet and through-the-wall heating and air-conditioning, on the fourth floor of an 18-story doorman building from 1963 with a live-in resident manager, shared laundry, a private parking…

Who says you have to live in one place? Maybe a few tiny homes would be preferable. That’s what Robert Losonsky and Edith Wassenaar discovered when they traded a typical home in the Netherlands for several smaller ones, adopting a peripatetic lifestyle — one that prioritizes activities like surfing over work — in the process….

Half of all renters in the United States spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, more than at any other time in history, according to a new report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The center’s analysis of 2022 census data found that 22.4 million renter households are burdened,…

This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Port Washington, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Belle Mead, N.J.

Do you have a story to tell about what happened to your house during a divorce? The New York Times wants to hear how couples divided the value of their homes, likely their largest asset, and what the experience was like for them: Did you sell it and split the proceeds? Did you continue to…

Keswick, Va. | $9.995 Million An 1856 estate with five bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms, on a 286-acre lot This house, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been updated by the sellers, who installed new appliances, a new electrical system and new plumbing during renovations, and also uncovered original floorboards…

Two prominent real estate agents have started a new trade association in a direct swipe at the embattled National Association of Realtors. Founded more than 100 years ago, the group known as N.A.R. has long held sway over the American real estate industry, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in annual dues from its 1.5…

Ariane and Andrew Vincent’s former home in Melbourne, Australia, was the kind of place people dream about: a three-story house near the beach with views of Port Phillip Bay. But after years of climbing all those stairs — and chasing three growing children (now 18 to 23) among floors — “we were ready to live…

Berkeley | $1.98 Million A 1926 Tudor Revival house with three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a 0.1-acre lot This house, which has been owned by the same family for 50 years, retains many of its original architectural details, including hardwood floors, built-ins and molding. It is on a tree-lined street where…

Following the trajectory of housing prices is no easy task. But how does the general population fare when it comes to tracking real estate prices in their areas? All Star Home, a hub for home-improvement services, recently conducted an intriguing survey aimed at finding out. Residents in the 29 largest U.S. cities were asked how…

Susana Simonpietri, the creative director of Chango & Co., an interior design firm in Brooklyn, often electrifies social media by posting photos of children’s rooms. With their eye-catching colors, unexpected patterns and playful elements, it’s hard not to love the spaces she creates. “I enjoy designing them so much, because I feel like every time…

Q: I live on the sixth floor of a 54-unit co-op building in the West Village. Five years ago, during renovations in the apartment below mine, a wall was removed and I lost my connection to the building’s intercom system. It has never been restored. The building’s architect is supposed to review and approve all…

This week’s properties are four-bedroom homes in Millstone, N.J., and Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

For four years now, the housing market has defied all logic. A global pandemic didn’t collapse prices, but sent them soaring to new heights. Last year, mortgage rates hit a 23-year high and sales plummeted. Even so, home prices stubbornly kept rising, creating the most unaffordable housing market in generations. This year offers a new…

The New York Times wants to hear from renters in cities around the country who pay half of their income (or close to it) on rent. How do you make ends meet? How does your high rent affect your financial and life choices? We want to hear your experiences. We read every questionnaire response, then…

Manhattan | 250 West 27th Street, No. 4E Chelsea Loft $1.195 million A 900-square-foot studio with an open floor plan, marble countertops, a breakfast bar, a sleeping nook, built-ins, ample closets, through-the-wall air-conditioning and a basement storage locker, on the fourth floor of a six-story former warehouse from 1918 that has a live-in super, shared…

There are some things I never forget: Where each plant in my garden came from. Who unlocked the secret of successfully growing carrots for me (John Navazio, then a senior scientist at Organic Seed Alliance). Who shared the best strategy for keeping tomato diseases at bay (Tom Stearns, the founder of High Mowing Organic Seeds)….

Seattle | $370,000 A one-bedroom, one-bathroom condominium in a 1929 building This home is in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, half a block from a Trader Joe’s, an organic grocery co-op and several popular nightlife spots on a bustling stretch of Madison Street. It is within walking distance of Italian, Korean and Mexican restaurants, as well…

San Francisco | $2.995 Million A five-bedroom, five-bathroom Victorian house, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is in Potrero Hill, about a 10-minute walk from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. It is also within walking distance of a public library, public elementary and high schools, and Potrero Hill Recreation Center, which sits…

Patrick Page and Paige Davis met in the mid 1990s, during New York rehearsals for the first national tour of the musical “Beauty and the Beast.” But with Mr. Page working on his scenes in one studio (he played Lumière), and Ms. Davis, an ensemble member, singing and dancing in another, they didn’t really get…

In 1972, residents of Tokyo looked up to see something extraordinary looming over downtown. It looked like something out of a science-fiction film — a futuristic tower composed of 140 detachable capsules, each suitable for a single resident and with a porthole looking out, like a pile of eyes fixed on the city. With its…

Idyllwild | $1.089 Million A 1991 chalet-style retreat with five bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 1.3-acre lot This house is less than 10 minutes from a brewpub, a bakery, a grocery store and a number of restaurants and inns at the center of this small mountain community. But the location’s big draw is its…

Jackelyn Silva misses the days when she could store food in her cabinets without giving it a second thought. Or step away from the kitchen table for a moment without a worry. “You can’t cook breakfast and leave it there,” she said, “because once you turn, you’ve got a roach on your food.” It’s not…

The president of the embattled National Association of Realtors has resigned, just four months into her tenure. Tracy Kasper is the second president to abruptly step down from N.A.R. — an organization that has seen its power and influence wane in recent months in the wake of losing a major antitrust lawsuit and amid allegations…

Manhattan | 250 Mercer Street, No. B804 Greenwich Village Studio $665,000 A roughly 450-square-foot co-op studio with an updated kitchen, a breakfast bar, a sleeping alcove, overhead storage and 10-foot ceilings, on the eighth floor of a 16-story doorman building from 1890 that has basement storage cages, a live-in super, a bike room, shared laundry,…

Q: I’ve been unable to live in my rent-stabilized apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, because of a bedbug infestation. The landlord hired an exterminator, who has come three times, but the bedbugs are still there. The exterminator said they might be resistant to the chemical spray. My lease isn’t up until September, and I want…

The past year gave many house hunters a sobering realization: For now, they remain among the ranks of renters. While 2023 also came with a slight easing of competition among renters and somewhat lower rents, the market remains tight. Just how much space can renters expect? A recent report by RentCafe found that the average…

This week’s properties are four-bedroom homes in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., and Greenwich, Conn.

Bruce Falck long dreamed of following the example set by his father, who ran a construction company in Johannesburg, South Africa: He wanted to build a house designed specifically for his family. “My dad was a civil engineer, and he built both of the houses I grew up in,” said Mr. Falck, 52, a former…

Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. | $1.299 Million A 2019 house with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This house is near 30A, a 24-mile span of road along the Gulf Coast that connects Santa Rosa Beach to other popular beach communities, including Rosemary Beach, Seaside and Seacrest. It is…

Q: Home inspections can give buyers some peace of mind — or some leverage — when it comes to the biggest investment they may ever make. But the process can feel overwhelming, especially for inexperienced buyers: How do you find the right inspector, and what should you look for when hiring one? What questions should…

The year ended disappointingly for many American home buyers — fewer than 16 percent of homes for sale in 2023 were affordable to local median earners, according to a study by Redfin. That’s the lowest rate since at least 2013, the year Redfin began tracking prices, when 50 percent of homes were affordable to local…

Dizzy Gillespie helped make Minton’s Playhouse famous. Minton’s in Harlem was where jazz musicians, from out-of-towners to locals performing in nearby big band theaters in Harlem, sought refuge during late-night jam sessions and a new genre, bebop, was born. Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, is largely considered a pioneer of the rebellious jazz style that…

This week’s properties are three-bedroom homes in Merrick, N.Y., and Redding Conn.

Manhattan | 1810 Third Avenue, No. A-9B East Harlem Condo $600,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, 600-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, built-ins in the bedroom, frosted-glass barn doors, central air-conditioning and a balcony, on the ninth floor of a 12-story doorman building with a garden, gym, roof deck, residents’ lounge, children’s play area, bike room,…

An island retreat in Charleston County, a midcentury-modern home in Portland and an early 19th-century rowhouse in Philadelphia.

When you’re renovating a kitchen, it’s easy to get swept up in choosing cabinets, counters and appliances. But there’s another element that matters just as much: lighting. “The importance of lighting in a kitchen is twofold,” said Rush Jenkins, the chief executive of WRJ Design in Jackson, Wyo. “One is having sufficient light on surfaces…

Manhattan | 188 East 70th Street, No. 17B Lenox Hill Condo $859,000 A one-bath, 547-square-foot, newly updated studio with a large foyer or dining area, a Murphy bed, built-ins and a marble bathroom on the 17th floor of a 31-story doorman building with a concierge, live-in super, gym, catering room, children’s playroom and shared laundry….

Carmel-by-the-Sea | $4.499 Million A 2003 Tudor Revival cottage with four bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.1-acre lot This home, which received a Carmel Heritage Award in 2004, was built to resemble the older storybook cottages for which the city is known. It is a few blocks from Carmel Plaza, an outdoor dining and…

These days, real estate imagery is often defined by staged hotel-lobby-style furniture and generic artwork, dramatic drone shots on unsettlingly perfect sunny days and a lack of human presence — almost never do you see any people or evidence that these homes have been lived in. Lee Friedlander’s new photo book, “Real Estate,” published by…

The twin red brick townhouses at 20-22 Bank Street, between Waverly Place and West Fourth Street, are being sold together (as a D.I.Y. mansion) for $37.5 million. Combined, the houses are nearly 40 feet wide with around 7,600 square feet of interior space that includes eight bedrooms, eight full bathrooms and two powder rooms. Outdoor…

Q: We live on the first and second floors of a brownstone in East Harlem, and we love the backyard. Two buildings over, a neighbor in the second-floor apartment has put a litter box on the fire escape outside their window for community cats to shelter. The neighbor also puts out food for them. In…

Westport, Conn. | $1.994 Million A 1707 Colonial with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 0.8-acre lot While this Fairfield County home has been expanded since it was constructed in the early 18th century, the owners have taken care to preserve and even augment its character: An early 1990s addition, for…

Some tiny homes seem so ideal that it’s tempting to avoid changing them, even when life demands otherwise. That’s how Pam Austin felt when her family began outgrowing the 450-square-foot log cabin she owns on Guemes Island, off the coast of Washington. In 2000, Ms. Austin and her now ex-husband bought the little house, which…

This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Locust Valley, N.Y., and a five-bedroom in Medford Lakes, N.J.

Manufactured homes have traditionally offered a more affordable option for home buyers in a housing market that has few such options. And they still do, but in recent years, the prices of manufactured homes — usually called mobile homes — have been rising faster than those of traditionally-built single-family homes, according to a study by…

The staff members of the National Association of Realtors, the largest professional organization in the United States, were in a panic. Two days before the group’s national convention, they had set up 400 exhibition booths and were expecting nearly 12,000 people to arrive for three days of speakers, training sessions and networking. But now they…

Theron Truluck has everything he needs, for now, in his 425-square-foot apartment in the Bronx. The modest dorm-style room, with white walls and red-tiled floors, comes with a mini fridge, a microwave, a sink, a twin-size bed, a desk and an armoire. He also has access to a shared shower and bathroom, a community kitchen,…

Bodega Bay | $1.6 Million A 1989 shingle-clad house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.6-acre lot This house is about a mile from the Pacific Ocean, with views that also stretch east to the hills beyond the Russian River. It is a five-minute drive from beaches popular for surfing, swimming and fishing,…

In Matt Mattus’s garden and greenhouse, analysis and artistry are as closely intertwined as the annual vines that represent just one of his many botanical passions. On the one hand, Mr. Mattus has a trial gardener’s mindset — or, at least, that of a disciplined curator, ever looking to weed out the vines that don’t…

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., and a six-bedroom in Hopewell, N.J.

Q: I have tried to sell my co-op apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, several times, but the board never accepts the prospective buyer. I lost a sale when the board said the co-op’s financial information wasn’t available because the building was being audited. I lost another when the board said the buyer’s income was too…

Irwin Cohen, an inventive developer who transformed a derelict factory where the first Oreo cookie was produced in 1912 into Chelsea Market, an exuberant 21st-century food bazaar that helped revitalize a New York City neighborhood, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause of death, in a hospital, was pneumonia, his son-in-law Blair…

Since 1916 and by one name or another, 233 12th St. SE in Washington has been a store — a landmark and meeting place of the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Christine Campbell, 59, recalls it always being Mott’s Market, even as it changed hands. “Grandmother would send us to the corner store to pick up things…

When Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) gets chased out of The Plaza in the 1992 film “Home Alone 2,” he heads across town to the Upper West Side, where his Uncle Rob has a brownstone at 51 West 95th Street. But Uncle Rob is out of town, the house is under construction and Kevin is, yet…

Manhattan | 40-50 East 10th Street, No. 5J Greenwich Village Co-op $1.875 million A one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, roughly 1,000-square-foot apartment that has a windowed kitchen with marble countertops, a large living and dining area, a primary suite with a walk-in closet, windowed bathrooms, a wood-burning fireplace and casement windows, on the fifth floor of a 10-story…

Salt Lake City | $575,000 A 1913 Craftsman bungalow with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This house was recently updated with new appliances, bathrooms and paint. It is about a block from a public nine-hole golf course, less than half a mile from the South Salt Lake Community Center and a…

After nearly 17 years of commuting more than an hour each way from North Jersey to his company’s headquarters in Basking Ridge, Ray Wierzbicki finally moved last December with his wife, Bernadette, to a house just minutes from his office — an English country-style home in Bernardsville, N.J. Seven months later, he retired from Verizon,…

Styles come and styles go, but Stan Herman has been in fashion for decades. Just last month, Mr. Herman, 95, the king of cozy couture, was moving the merch — velour loungewear — on QVC, where his creations have been a durable staple for 30 years, and where has he sold close to 900,000 units…

The Georgia Bulldogs — the two-time defending national champions — draw some 90,000 spectators to Sanford Stadium for six or seven home games every fall, essentially creating an alternate market for short-term rentals that lasts about three months. Real estate investors are buying and building homes for fans who will pay hundreds or even thousands…

“We’ve been living out of boxes for two and a half years,” said Susie Kwak Ting. Her family’s story begins with a move into one temporary apartment and ends with a move into another. A permanent fix, she hopes, is within sight. She and her husband, Lee Ting, were raising their two daughters — one…

This week’s properties are three-bedroom homes in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and Greenwich, Conn.

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,…