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ambergris caye real estate teams work Owning a Belize real estate property is more than just a dream—it’s the start of a whole new life....
$2.4 Million Homes in California
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...
Renovating a Second Home in Newfoundland Without Road Access
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...
How the Renovation of a House Rocked a Famous Church
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,...
The Benefits of Living in the Same Place for a Long Time
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,”...
How to Give Your Foyer a Spring Makeover
It may not feel like spring yet — but it is. And as the temperature rises, the stuff you bring into and out of your...
Homes for Sale in Manhattan and on Staten Island
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...
Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey
This week’s properties are five-bedroom homes in Paramus, N.J., and Chappaqua, N.Y....
Can My Landlord Force Me to Use a Rent Guarantor?
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...
$900,000 Homes in Rome – The New York Times
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...
Members-Only Mania: Why Are More Private Clubs Popping Up in New York?
The historical function of members’ clubs — to stratify the city by gender, race or class — persists today. Aman New York, which opened in...
A Building With Possibilities, on East 77th Street, Is Listed for $18 Million
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,...
Higher Home Prices Means Higher Property Taxes
The median price for a single-family home in the United States rose about 40 percent from 2019 to 2022, peaking at $480,000 before receding to...
$750,000 Homes in Pennsylvania, Maine and Louisiana
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,...
The Homeowners Who Beat the National Association of Realtors
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...
How New Rules for Real Estate Commissions Could Affect First-Time Buyers
With a landmark legal settlement poised to upend a decades-old norm that has dictated who pays real estate agents and how much, economists, agents and...
A New Law Would Remove Many Architectural Protections in Miami Beach
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...
Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Queens
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,...
Black Couple Who Said an Appraisal of Their Home Was Biased Settle Lawsuit
Dr. Nathan Connolly and the estate of Dr. Shani Mott, who recently died, will receive a payment from their mortgage lender, which also agreed to...
The 400-Square-Foot NYC Apartment That’s Constant Changing
Once Michael Mance and Shannie Easterby adopted a child, it didn’t take long to realize that a 400-square-foot apartment wasn’t going to work for them...
Could Trump’s Properties Really Be Seized?
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...
The Art Dealer Leo Koenig’s West Village Duplex on the Market
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...
My Neighbor Has a Very Annoying Emotional Support Dog. What Can I Do?
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,...
$700,000 Homes in Quebec – The New York Times
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...
Boris & Horton, a Dog-Friendly Cafe, Reopens, With a Few New Tricks
A triumphant mood hung in the air at the East Village cafe Boris & Horton, as good boys and good girls scampered, barked, sprawled and...
Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut
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...
What Does the Real Estate Commission Shake-up Mean for New Yorkers?
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...
$1.5 Million Homes in California, Florida and Rhode Island
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,...
A New Building Aims to Be a Good Neighbor in Low-Rise Brooklyn
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...
Brooklyn Couple Colorfully Renovates Townhouse on a Budget
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:...
Are You Trying to Sell Your Home Using a Real Estate Agent? We Want to Hear From You.
New changes to the way homes are bought and sold are causing confusion among buyers, sellers and real estate agents. We want to hear your...
Renting in Mott Haven, South Bronx, After a Disastrous First Apartment
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...
$4 Million Homes in California
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...
Do I Have to Allow the Landlord to Do Building Repairs in My Apartment?
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...
Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing
One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their...
$1.5 Million Homes in Paris
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...
Five Ways Buying and Selling a House Could Change
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...
4 Ways a Settlement Could Change the Housing Industry
In the early hours of Friday morning, the National Association of Realtors agreed to a global settlement deal that would resolve several lawsuits against the...
Central Park Sidewalk Restoration Is Fixing Bumps for Accessibility
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...
You Don’t Need a Greenhouse to Grow Citrus Indoors
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...
Where Do People Stay in Their Homes the Longest?
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...
Architects’ Los Angeles Home Embraces Tube-Like Design
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...
$550,000 Homes in New York, Ohio and New Jersey
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...
Secret Doors Are Having a Major Moment
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...
Andre Dubus III Built His Dream Home With a Boiler Room Office
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...
My Neighbor May Be a Hoarder. How Do We Get in There and Find Out?
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...
$1.2 Million Homes in California
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...
505 State Street in Brooklyn Is NYC’s First All-Electric Building
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...
Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut
This week’s properties are a two-bedroom in Pound Ridge, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Ridgefield, Conn....
Rents Are Flat — or Up, or Down, Depending Where You Look
Nationally, one-year rent increases have leveled out, but local conditions may vary....
$1 Million Homes in London
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,...
I Want the House, Not My Spouse
Dividing the marital home in divorce can be a financially and emotionally fraught experience....
From an Unassuming California Bungalow, She Created a ‘Micro Versailles’
Bonnie McIlvaine has lived in three homes in San Diego County, all on the very same spot. The first was an unheated concrete-block house she...
This Couple Won the N.Y.C. Housing Lottery and Their Dream Apartment
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....
Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn
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...
Green Architecture Hits a Growth Spurt
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...
$950,000 Homes in Maine, Florida and Washington
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 New Initiative to Protect Black History Starts With Coltrane
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...
How a Small One Bedroom House Became This Couple’s Dream Home
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...
Home Sellers Claim Warren Buffett’s Brokerage Defrauded Them
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...
$2.5 Million Homes in California
Palm Springs | $2.488 Million A midcentury-modern house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse, on a 0.2-acre lot This 1957 house...
What’s Hidden in Woodlawn’s Mausoleums? Extraordinary Stained Glass.
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...
The Best Markets for First-Time Home Buyers
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,...
What Is a Mortgage Servicer, and How Do You Avoid a Shady One?
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...
Buying Houses Before Finding Spouses
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...
Tommy Tune Lists His Penthouse on the Far East Side
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...
Homes for Sale in Manhattan and the Bronx
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...
Homes for Sale in New York State
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...
Multigenerational First-Time Home Buying on the Rise Among Latinos
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....
$2 Million Homes in Missouri, California and the District of Columbia
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...
One Family’s Road to Building a House Despite the Obstacles
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...
How to Create a Cozy Room That Feels Like a Hug
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...
Should You Consider Buying Your Childhood Home?
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...
$800,000 Homes in California
A recently renovated house in Yucca Valley, a three-bedroom home in Benicia and a one-bedroom condominium in Laguna Niguel....
Look to Willows to Brighten Your Winter Garden
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...
How Do I Evict My Roommates?
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...
Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn
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...
She Wanted an R.V. He Wanted a Sailboat. This Was Their Compromise.
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...
Where Do Renters Get the Most for Their Dollar?
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...
Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey
This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Scarsdale, N.Y., and a six-bedroom in Leonia, N.J....
Elliott Erwitt’s Co-op and Photo Studio Are Listed on Central Park West
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...
$300,000 Homes in Texas, Georgia and Nebraska
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...
A Bed-Stuy Loft Transformed With an Out-of-the-Ordinary Renovation
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...