Real Estate

A rustic cabin in Sycamore Canyon, a converted 1900s house in San Francisco’s Mission District and a private retreat in Sonoma County.

By Angela Serratore

Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, offers waterfront homes with pools and guesthouses.

By Roxana Popescu

This week’s properties are in Chelsea, Yorkville and Crown Heights.

By Heather Senison

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Dix Hills and a three-bedroom in Hillsdale.

By Claudia Gryvatz Copquin and Jill P. Capuzzo

The scion of a New York family of builders, he rescued the Fontainebleau hotel from bankruptcy, spurring a real estate boom.

By Sam Roberts

A Spanish-style house in Los Angeles, a desert retreat in Palm Springs and a Joseph Eichler house in Sunnyvale.

By Angela Serratore

When his firm was hired to design an auxiliary dwelling unit in a California yard, a designer customized the project with a mix of prefabricated and original features.

By Julie Lasky

A house on the hillsides of Santa Cruz, a restored traditional home and a bright yellow dwelling — all a short drive to the beach.

By Alison Gregor

Instead of chasing trends, the California designer is doubling down on the neutral palette she built her brand on.

By Sydney Gore

Choosing the new-construction route comes with challenges like cost overruns, permitting delays and supply-chain issues, but also the promise of getting a fully customized home.

By Wadzanai Mhute

For her first purchase, a longtime renter searched in Flatbush and Midwood for a one-bedroom co-op with nearby subway options. Here’s what she found.

By Joyce Cohen

This week’s properties are in the Gramercy Park area, in Yorkville and in West Midwood.

By Heather Senison

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom shore house in Linwood and a five-bedroom contemporary home in White Plains.

By Jill P. Capuzzo and Anne Mancuso

Even if rates dropped to zero, typical homes would still be unaffordable for median earners in some major metro areas.

By Arnesa A. Howell

The design created such a feeling of freshness that the owners felt like they were back in Northern California.

By Stephen Treffinger

A brick house in Salt Lake City, a midcentury-modern house in Tucson and a neo-Classical-revival house in Richmond

By Angela Serratore

Pennsylvania’s fastest-growing city is experiencing a development boom.

By Jill P. Capuzzo

The Anconas found their bungalow cramped as their family grew. Despite limited space, they were able to create a large kitchen, dining and living space in an addition.

By Tim McKeough

First-time home buyers are commemorating their purchases by sharing images of a new home staple, takeout pizza, online.

By Rachel Wharton

Brazil’s most populous city offers contemporary brick houses, sleek condos with city views, and ranch-style homes.

By Lana Bortolot

It’s getting harder to become a homeowner. But in Monopoly, The Game of Life and The Sims, the rules are simple: Play your cards right, and you’ll get a house.

By Matt Yan

After the pandemic forced them to leave Oakland, Calif., a couple returned five years later to realize their dream of owning a home there. Would $600,000 be enough?

By Mark Kreidler

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom 1920 house in Hastings-on-Hudson, and a four-bedroom farmhouse in Redding.

By Anne Mancuso and Alicia Napierkowski

This week’s properties are in Turtle Bay, Hell’s Kitchen and Flushing.

By Heather Senison

Inspections mandated after a 2021 building collapse have led to expensive repair costs, forcing many to list their units.

By Julia Echikson

Influencers are making money online by recommending dorm products and designs to families, who spend thousands of dollars on back-to-college shopping.

By Rachel Wharton

In today’s tough housing market, some first-time home buyers are looking to their parents for help. Here’s what to know if you plan to do the same.

By Anna Fixsen

A stone house in Old Lyme, a midcentury house in Miami and a rowhouse in Charleston

By Angela Serratore

The New York Times is looking for buyers who suspect that discrimination played a role in their rejection by a co-op board.

By Debra Kamin

Housing rights experts say a community restricted to white residents is illegal, but the creators believe they could win a potential challenge in court in the current political climate.

By Debra Kamin and Whitten Sabbatini

A couple seeking a more sustainable home gut-renovated a Prospect Heights townhouse and were able to stop paying for electricity.

By Tim McKeough

A midcentury five-bedroom in Mill Valley, a historic four-bedroom in Los Angeles, and a Spanish-style five-bedroom in Ojai.

By Angela Serratore

An 18th-century farmhouse in the Tweed Valley, a modern ranch house with mountain views, and a stone house designed to evoke a grain mill.

By Michael Kaminer

And you can do it safely, in under an hour, and for less than $50.

By Tim Heffernan and Clark Hodgin

Seeking to reinvent himself as a writer, an ‘empty-nest bachelor’ looked for a co-op in Carnegie Hill for around $500,000.

By Joyce Cohen

The end of “And Just Like That …” means the end of a real estate portfolio that includes a cozy Upper East Side studio and a grand Gramercy townhouse.

By Brittany Loggins

This week’s properties are two-bedroom units in Hudson Heights and Midtown and a multifamily house in Greenwood Heights.

By Heather Senison

This week’s properties are a three-bedroom townhouse in New Canaan, and a four-bedroom house in Huntington.

By Alicia Napierkowski and Claudia Gryvatz Copquin

That’s a big consideration when thinking about the best place to live.

By Vince Dixon

“Affordable” by California standards, this San Diego suburb is the site of a new community developed with fire preparedness in mind.

By Michele Lerner and Ariana Drehsler

A condo in Stonington, a Colonial Revival in Warrenton and a ranch house in Durham.

By Angela Serratore

Beech leaf disease has already made its way to 15 states and into Ontario, with alarming results.

By Margaret Roach

The designer Mandy Cheng deliberately chose pieces she could recommend to her clients for her media room and bar.

By Tim McKeough and Philip Cheung

A hillside house in Topanga, a condo in Corona del Mar and a Tudor Revival in Sacramento.

By Angela Serratore

The number of these programs, which come from a range of sources, is rising in the United States, but there are barriers to entry.

By Heather Senison

Romania’s growing bear population has turned conservation into confrontation for people living in the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains.

By Rukmini Callimachi

A custom-built home near Lake Maggiore, and a duplex and a country home both with views of Lake Como.

By Lana Bortolot

A mother and her son searched near Asheville, N.C., for a quiet place with nice views and an easy commute to her new job.

By Heather Senison

This week’s homes include a five-bedroom Victorian in Tuckahoe, N.Y., and a country estate in Millstone Township, N.J.

By Anne Mancuso and Jill P. Capuzzo

This week’s properties are on the Lower East Side, in Midtown Manhattan and Dumbo.

By Heather Senison

In many large U.S. cities, the typical household can afford to rent only a space smaller than a studio apartment.

By Vince Dixon

A vast ranch in central Wyoming straddles four counties and is equipped for commercial cattle operations, with a riding arena, a church and mountain views.

By Heather Senison

Touches of the screenwriter's career are throughout the 4,500-square-foot home he and his wife, Kyle, had built in Austin, Texas.

By Addie Morfoot

A 1914 house in Prescott, a Colonial in Centreville and a farmhouse in Hillsdale.

By Angela Serratore

Drawn back to New York after years in Europe, Donelle Kosch gravitated toward Boerum Hill, transforming 450 square feet into a place she could live and entertain guests.

By Tim McKeough

An Australian businessman built a house so he could enjoy his eclectic range of furniture, accessories and art every day.

By Tim McKeough

A cabin in Lake Arrowhead, a townhouse in Los Angeles and a split-level in Berkeley

By Angela Serratore

The actor and his partners recently opened Wildflower Studios, a 775,000-square-foot production facility in Queens.

By Anna Kodé

We spoke with several Sullivan County farmers about the urban lives they left behind, and what it means to tend the land in the 21st century.

By Lana Bortolot and Erin Schaff

The asking price for the couple’s property is around $30 million, while other celebrities, like Adam Levine and Tony Parker, also have put their homes up for sale.

By Vivian Marino

In Northern Transylvania, buyers can find traditional dwellings, farmhouses, and stables converted into homes.

By Roxana Popescu

Seeing their renovations changed or inadequate maintenance frustrates sellers who still have an attachment to their former homes.

By Joanne Kaufman

With housing demand high in France after World War I, Ferdinand Fillod filed his first design patent well before experiments by his contemporaries. One of the last few homes left has been restored.

By Julie Lasky

Tired of paying rent increases and hearing the ‘sirens and screams’ in Hell’s Kitchen, he looked for a studio or one-bedroom in Turtle Bay, Kips Bay and Midtown East.

By Anna Fixsen

A one-bedroom in SoHo, a three-bedroom on the Upper West Side and a two-bedroom in Jackson Heights.

By Heather Senison

This week’s properties are four-bedroom homes near the water in Southold and Margate.

By Claudia Gryvatz Copquin and Jill P. Capuzzo

A Pew Research Center survey suggests that they may like you more than you realize.

By Arnesa A. Howell

The chief executive of CoStar Group, which owns Apartments.com, said Zillow has ‘stolen’ thousands of images to bolster its business.

By Debra Kamin

An 1870 house in Charles Town, an Italianate home in St. Louis and a condo in Boston.

By Angela Serratore

Heirloom Pelargoniums, some with hundreds of years of horticultural history, are among 2,000 kinds of plants in an herb collection in rural New Jersey.

By Margaret Roach and Hannah Yoon

A decade ago, the residential boom downtown would have been hard to imagine.

By Amy S. Eckert and Nick Hagen

Men's wear stores around the country have cleared shelf space for teacups and handmade ceramics so image-conscious men can invest in their home space.

By Misty White Sidell

The over-the-top limestone building in Bay Ridge, built on a lot once owned by the keyboardist for Blondie, might be fit for a king, with its abundance of marble and gold.

By Vivian Marino

Over its several decades, the show’s setting has always been both realistic and idealistic. And it has evolved, much like the New York City streets that inspired it.

By Anna Kodé and Winnie Au

The homeowners bought adjacent land to build an outdoor dining space detached from their home for hosting barbecues for friends and neighbors

By Tim McKeough

A midcentury modern in Los Angeles, a house with ocean views in Bolinas and a split-level in Santa Cruz

By Angela Serratore

New South Wales properties include a Queenslander in Billinudgel, plus a villa and a California-style bungalow in Mullumbimby.

By Alison Gregor

The New York Sign Museum in Brooklyn preserves the stories of shuttered local businesses.

By Anna Kodé and Karsten Moran

The brokerage, which has already handled transactions with digital payment in lieu of cash, is the first major U.S. firm to create a dedicated team for such deals.

By Debra Kamin

A couple from Colorado wondered for years if they’d be able to buy a home in France and make a new life for themselves. Last year, they saw where their $450,000 budget could take them.

By Thomas Fuller

This week’s properties are in Lenox Hill, Hell’s Kitchen and Crown Heights.

By Heather Senison

Houses at the top 5 percent of the market cost over $1 million in all but seven of the largest U.S. metros.

By Shayla Colon

Stephen Chu, the architect behind the $85 million makeover of the beloved amphitheater in Central Park, has spent over two decades remaking his home in Ridgewood, Queens.

By Craig Kellogg and Ashok Sinha

June, usually the height of the spring housing season, saw sales of existing homes drop from the previous month, according to the National Association of Realtors.

By Ronda Kaysen

A 1950s bungalow in Beaver, a midcentury-modern house in San Antonio and a cottage from 1900 in Wake Forest.

By Angela Serratore

A designer and ceramicist set out to build a house in New York’s Hudson Valley region that her family could live in forever. Her son’s sketches stole the show.

By Nora Taylor

Designing around a collection, whether the items are conventional or eccentric, can personalize a home.

By Dina Cheney

When an old beach house in Truro, Mass., was listed for sale, a family of former renters snapped it up and renovated it for a growing clan.

By Tim McKeough

A midcentury modern in Thousand Oaks, a contemporary home in Carmel Valley and a French Normandy Revival in Oakland

By Angela Serratore

A co-op board may need to investigate so that it can protect every resident’s rights.

By Jill Terreri Ramos