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,…
