Category: Real Estate

Q: I recently signed a contract with Compass to have them represent me in the sale of my Manhattan apartment.…

The Justice Department will reopen an antitrust investigation into the National Association of Realtors, an influential trade group that has…

Condesa | 12.9 million Mexican pesos ($777,000) A two-bedroom, two-bath condominium facing a leafy park in a lively historic neighborhood.…

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

It’s hard enough buying a first home these days. Who on Earth is out there buying a second one? The…

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…

Flower pots, they are not. But Stephen Procter’s large stoneware garden vessels, some as tall as five feet and incorporating…

Los Angeles | $2.35 Million A renovated 1922 bungalow with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse, on…

When Cailey Heaps wants to get away from it all, one place comes to mind: the island of Newfoundland in…

A year later, in spring 2018, when Ms. Porter and Mr. Porter, 46, who works in tech security, were getting…

The last time Arlene Schulman went looking for an apartment, the internet was only in its infancy. “I did what…

It may not feel like spring yet — but it is. And as the temperature rises, the stuff you bring…

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…

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

Q: A year ago, when I applied for a market-rate apartment in the Bronx, the landlord required that I get…

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…

The historical function of members’ clubs — to stratify the city by gender, race or class — persists today. Aman…

Maurice Kanbar never saw the sense in accepting things as they were. The lifelong inventor and entrepreneur, who died in…

The median price for a single-family home in the United States rose about 40 percent from 2019 to 2022, peaking…

Phoenixville, Pa. | $750,000 A renovated 1840 schoolhouse with three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms and a guesthouse, on…

When Rhonda Burnett went to sell a home in 2016, she knew she would have to pay a commission to…

With a landmark legal settlement poised to upend a decades-old norm that has dictated who pays real estate agents and…

The oceanfront Eden Roc Hotel is an icon of Miami Modernist architecture, a style that epitomized the postwar glamour and…

Once Michael Mance and Shannie Easterby adopted a child, it didn’t take long to realize that a 400-square-foot apartment wasn’t…

Rejected by more than two dozen bond companies, Donald J. Trump has so far been unable to come up with…

For the last several years, the gallery owner Leo Koenig has been busy creating his own work of art: his…

Q: My husband and I have lived in a co-op in Westchester County for 37 years. It’s a three-story building…

La Minerve | $995,000 Canadian ($735,000) An A-frame lakefront chalet with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a wraparound balcony and a…

A triumphant mood hung in the air at the East Village cafe Boris & Horton, as good boys and good…

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…

Last week, the National Association of Realtors settled a series of lawsuits brought by home sellers, agreeing to pay $418…

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…

To fit into Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, known for its brownstones and low-key style, new buildings must follow a pattern: Be…

As Giovanni Botta and Amanda Pinegar began planning their renovation of the house they bought in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, they…

Altin Sencalar’s timing could hardly have been worse. “New York is the destination for jazz,” said Mr. Sencalar, a jazz…

San Rafael | $3.995 Million A 2001 Victorian-style house with five bedrooms and four bathrooms, on a 0.3-acre lot This…

Q: I am a senior citizen and have lived for almost 50 years in a small building in Queens. My…

La Villette | €1.39 million ($1.5 million) A two-bedroom, two-bath industrial loft entered through a private courtyard near the Canal…

A settlement reached this week threatens to strike a blow to an established standard of residential real estate: the 6…

In the early hours of Friday morning, the National Association of Realtors agreed to a global settlement deal that would…

The sidewalks surrounding Central Park were designed to help you escape. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the landscape architects…

Manhattan | 100 Claremont Avenue, No. 10C Morningside Heights Condo $1.195 million A one-bedroom, one-bath, 810-square-foot apartment with an open…

As if it weren’t difficult enough to find a home to buy these days, a new study reveals that more…

Shattering the glass ceiling isn’t always a goal — not if you’re a certain beloved lemon tree growing in a…

Grand Gorge, N.Y. | $550,000 A 2021 A-frame cabin with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 1.8-acre lot This…

This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, interiors and products. Lucía Cano and…

The cedar-shingled house that Andre Dubus III built for his family in the seaside town of Newbury, Mass., has four…

Other designers have disguised doors to home bars. Tammy Connor, an interior designer, and D. Stanley Dixon, an architect, added…

Glendale | $1.195 Million A 1952 house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.1-acre lot This recently updated…

In an ever-changing Downtown Brooklyn, high-rise apartment buildings nearing completion are a familiar sight. But there’s something a bit different…

Q: I am on the board of a small co-op in Manhattan. One of our residents is very private, and…

Nunhead Green | £795,000 ($1.01 million) A semi-attached, renovated two-bedroom, one-bath Victorian cottage with a contemporary interior and front and…

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…

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…

This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, interiors and products. In the lineup…

Southwest Harbor, Maine | $949,000 A circa 1900 cottage with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This…

The American jazz musician John Coltrane bought a three-story brick rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood in 1952, using it…

As families grow and space needs change, the conventional move is to trade one home for another. Rebecca Rudolph and…

HomeServices of America, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States and owned by Warren E. Buffett’s Berkshire…

When the pandemic began, Susannah Dalton and José Ignacio Vivero were living in a basement apartment in Sunnyside, Queens. “It…

On a sunny Bronx morning late last year, an all-star team of stained-glass experts prepared to enter a dank 1894…

In a market with high prices, low inventory and high mortgage interest rates, no one faces a steeper uphill climb…

Q: Here at Ask Real Estate, we recently received a reader’s question about poor treatment by mortgage servicers. Many first-time…

Rachel Rodman always dreamed of owning her own home, but life kept getting in the way. She became a mother…

Tommy Tune, the Broadway song-and-dance man, is selling a penthouse at the Southgate, a prewar co-op complex designed by Emery…

Manhattan | 67 West 107th Street, No. 1 Manhattan Valley Condo $875,000 A two-bedroom, one-bath, 708-square-foot apartment with an open…

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…

Whenever Danae Vega, 33, took a shower in her Southern California home, it was an ordeal. The pipes were broken,…

St. Louis | $1.999 Million An 1896 Beaux-Arts mansion with eight bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and two half bathrooms, on…

Randa Martin always wanted high ceilings. Her partner, Richard Lebehn, longed for a chef’s kitchen like the ones in all…

The stairs creaked in Jen Gorgano’s childhood home. Recalling those sounds makes Ms. Gorgano smile. “Growing up, we would always…

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…

Q: I lease a three-bedroom market-rate apartment in Brooklyn. I rent out two of the bedrooms, but the situation with…

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…

Victoria Sass, an interior designer in Minneapolis, had long dreamed of owning an R.V. so she and her family could…

Many of the growing contingent of renters would like to know just where their housing dollars stretch the furthest. A…

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…

New Braunfels, Texas | $295,000 A 1920 cottage with two bedrooms and one bathroom, on a 0.2-acre lot This house,…

After years of renting, Jackson Owens and Flora Jin bought a loft in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and it felt like the…

It was war that drove Alona Hamova from her home, but, in a way, she always knew she was destined…

Beverly Hills | $4.195 Million A 1924 Mediterranean-style house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a…

Finding a home has been so difficult lately. Is it worth buying one as a short-term rental? Yes — but…

In the world of real estate, Donald J. Trump’s name has long been synonymous with luxury. At one of his…

Jes’ka Washington lives in a six-bedroom house on a hill with avocado trees and a spectacular view, not far from…

Q: In May 2019, I purchased a condominium from the sponsor in a brand-new building in Brooklyn. From the beginning…

Wallpaper is a powerful design tool that can transform a room. You start with a white box and end up…

The New School’s Greenwich Village townhouse, an elegant 19th-century brick building that has served as a residence for university presidents…

Manhattan | 212 West 72nd Street, No. 4A Lincoln Square Condo $2.15 million A two-bedroom, two-bath, 992-square-foot apartment with an…

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…

Lillias White may pay the rent, but her rescue dog, LaKee, is inarguably the host and star of the house,…

CoStar Group, the $34 billion real estate analytics company, slammed into its Super Bowl debut with four high-gloss commercials on…

Palm Springs | $3.695 Million A midcentury-modern house with four bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 0.3-acre lot This 1963…

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…

Q: We have two rooftop lounges on top of our Hell’s Kitchen condominium building, where I serve on the board.…

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…

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

Is love transactional? When it comes to moving in together and splitting the rent, yes. A study of January 2024…

The Clematis that delight Alla Olkhovska the most among the 120 or so types she grows are not the familiar,…

Irvington, Va. | $450,000 A 2004 Carpenter Gothic-style house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 2.1-acre lot Just…

A former executive at a prominent New York City development firm that collapsed amid an avalanche of investor lawsuits and…

Julia Lippman and Mathew Eapen love antique homes, but they’re not typical old-house enthusiasts — or purists when it comes…

Emily Zaboski sometimes struggles to describe her living situation to people she meets. “Everybody we know is like, ‘Wait, so…

Joshua Tree | $1.295 Million A 2014 complex with four sleeping pods and two full bathrooms in the main house,…

Everybody at a skating rink smiles. Ever notice this? The teenagers in hockey skates racing from one side to the…

Q: My luxury condo building in Manhattan has fallen into disrepair, and the board of managers is thwarting efforts to…

Q: My luxury condo building in Manhattan has fallen into disrepair, and the board of managers is thwarting efforts to…

Have you been dreaming of a three-bedroom home? You’re probably a millennial, the generation now likeliest to be raising children.…

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…

The origins of Black History Month can be traced back nearly a hundred years to an unassuming, three-story brick rowhouse…

A Tudor Revival house in Indianapolis, a Colonial Revival home in Lancaster and an updated Craftsman bungalow in Walla Walla.

Making the most of whatever space you have is just good sense — whether you’ve recently bought your dream home…

The New York state comptroller has asked the real estate brokerage eXp Realty to open an independent investigation into sexual…

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…

The housing crisis has become so extreme that there is now not a single state, metropolitan area, or county in…

Q: Six months ago, while I was out of town, there were two unattended deaths in my 60-unit co-op building…

If Gen Z can’t afford the rent, how are they ever going to buy a home? A recent study by…

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…

Who says you have to live in one place? Maybe a few tiny homes would be preferable. That’s what Robert…

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

Half of all renters in the United States spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities,…

Do you have a story to tell about what happened to your house during a divorce? The New York Times…

Keswick, Va. | $9.995 Million An 1856 estate with five bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms, on a 286-acre…

Two prominent real estate agents have started a new trade association in a direct swipe at the embattled National Association…

Ariane and Andrew Vincent’s former home in Melbourne, Australia, was the kind of place people dream about: a three-story house…

Berkeley | $1.98 Million A 1926 Tudor Revival house with three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a…

The New York Times wants to hear from renters in cities around the country who pay half of their income…

Susana Simonpietri, the creative director of Chango & Co., an interior design firm in Brooklyn, often electrifies social media by…

Q: I live on the sixth floor of a 54-unit co-op building in the West Village. Five years ago, during…

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…

Manhattan | 250 West 27th Street, No. 4E Chelsea Loft $1.195 million A 900-square-foot studio with an open floor plan,…

Following the trajectory of housing prices is no easy task. But how does the general population fare when it comes…

There are some things I never forget: Where each plant in my garden came from. Who unlocked the secret of…

Seattle | $370,000 A one-bedroom, one-bathroom condominium in a 1929 building This home is in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, half…

San Francisco | $2.995 Million A five-bedroom, five-bathroom Victorian house, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is in Potrero Hill,…

Patrick Page and Paige Davis met in the mid 1990s, during New York rehearsals for the first national tour of…

In 1972, residents of Tokyo looked up to see something extraordinary looming over downtown. It looked like something out of…

Idyllwild | $1.089 Million A 1991 chalet-style retreat with five bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 1.3-acre lot This house…

Jackelyn Silva misses the days when she could store food in her cabinets without giving it a second thought. Or…

The president of the embattled National Association of Realtors has resigned, just four months into her tenure. Tracy Kasper is…

Manhattan | 250 Mercer Street, No. B804 Greenwich Village Studio $665,000 A roughly 450-square-foot co-op studio with an updated kitchen,…

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

Q: Home inspections can give buyers some peace of mind — or some leverage — when it comes to the…

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

Dizzy Gillespie helped make Minton’s Playhouse famous. Minton’s in Harlem was where jazz musicians, from out-of-towners to locals performing in…

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…

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

“I think I learned all the different types of fog,” said Charlotte Gale, describing her first full summer as owner…

When you’re renovating a kitchen, it’s easy to get swept up in choosing cabinets, counters and appliances. But there’s another…

The staff members of the National Association of Realtors, the largest professional organization in the United States, were in a…

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…

Manufactured homes have traditionally offered a more affordable option for home buyers in a housing market that has few such…

Q: We live on the first and second floors of a brownstone in East Harlem, and we love the backyard.…

These days, real estate imagery is often defined by staged hotel-lobby-style furniture and generic artwork, dramatic drone shots on unsettlingly…

The twin red brick townhouses at 20-22 Bank Street, between Waverly Place and West Fourth Street, are being sold together…

Some tiny homes seem so ideal that it’s tempting to avoid changing them, even when life demands otherwise. That’s how…

Manhattan | 188 East 70th Street, No. 17B Lenox Hill Condo $859,000 A one-bath, 547-square-foot, newly updated studio with a…

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

As they awaited the arrival of their third child in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Kerri and Neil Beggs encountered a problem…

Theron Truluck has everything he needs, for now, in his 425-square-foot apartment in the Bronx. The modest dorm-style room, with…

Bodega Bay | $1.6 Million A 1989 shingle-clad house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.6-acre lot This…

In Matt Mattus’s garden and greenhouse, analysis and artistry are as closely intertwined as the annual vines that represent just…

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…

Since 1916 and by one name or another, 233 12th St. SE in Washington has been a store — a…

Irwin Cohen, an inventive developer who transformed a derelict factory where the first Oreo cookie was produced in 1912 into…

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…

When Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) gets chased out of The Plaza in the 1992 film “Home Alone 2,” he heads…

Salt Lake City | $575,000 A 1913 Craftsman bungalow with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This…

Styles come and styles go, but Stan Herman has been in fashion for decades. Just last month, Mr. Herman, 95,…

The Georgia Bulldogs — the two-time defending national champions — draw some 90,000 spectators to Sanford Stadium for six or…

“We’ve been living out of boxes for two and a half years,” said Susie Kwak Ting. Her family’s story begins…

Living alone can be a choice or a pit stop, but one thing’s for sure: The rent is on you.…

Q: My wife and I have rented a market-rate two-bedroom apartment in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, since 2013. During that time,…