Real Estate

A recent study found that the size of the average new rental apartment increased by almost 30 square feet last year.

A four-bedroom house with a thatched roof, a turn-of-the-century rowhouse and a three-bedroom duplex in a converted grain distillery.

Retailers like Chick-fil-A are opening smaller, takeout-focused outposts with little or no seating to complement their traditional locations.

With their lease on a Lower East Side apartment expiring, two software engineers wondered if buying made more sense than renting, now that the housing market wasn’t quite so frenzied. Here’s what they found.

Facing high home prices and mortgage interest rates, many people need huge down payments to afford a mortgage.

This week’s properties are in NoMad, the East Village and Park Slope.

This week’s properties are waterfront homes in Massapequa, N.Y., and Margate, N.J.

A tight-knit immigrant community trusted a developer as one of their own. But he pocketed the money, according to the state attorney general’s office.

The world-famous New York City gardens offer a master class in how to grow and maintain a naturalistic landscape. Here are a few takeaways.

A Colonial Revival retreat in Greenwich, a Prairie-style house in Chicago and a Queen Anne Revival home in Houston.

Tal Alexander, who rose to fame in the luxury housing market with his younger brother Oren, will take a leave from the firm he helped to create. Oren left earlier in June.

The small house in Washington was designed to sit lightly on the land: It touches the ground in only six places, and they didn’t cut down a single tree.

A Craftsman bungalow in Altadena, a three-bedroom condominium in San Francisco and a renovated midcentury house in Sausalito.

Flip taxes, also known as transfer fees, help co-op buildings raise money for repairs and improvements, and they must be described in your governing documents.

A three-bedroom loft in an revamped factory, a two-bedroom apartment in a 16th-century house, and a detached villa in a leafy residential area.

The Harlem home of the circus impresario James A. Bailey is being restored, detail by detail, by a couple who are learning the job as they go along.

A recently married couple moved to the Italian capital in search of a two-bedroom with a terrace in a central neighborhood. What would their $950,000 budget afford?

This week’s properties are in the West Village, Yorkville and North Riverdale.

A recent study ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities based on median rents, job opportunities and social metrics.

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

An 1860 rowhouse in Catskill, a Queen Anne Revival home in Holly Springs and a 19th-century farmhouse in Westminster.

Their passion for fruit you’ve never heard of started small. Now they have a botanical garden that’s open to the public.

With temperatures climbing this week, here’s how to be comfortable in your home — with or without air-conditioning.

The best open storage adds personality to a room. Here’s how it’s done.

A co-founder of a brokerage that caters to the ultrawealthy and his twin brother face accusations that they sexually assaulted women. They have denied wrongdoing.

A 1949 cottage in Lake Arrowhead, a Spanish-style home in Los Angeles and a Craftsman house in Berkeley.

An engineer who moved from London to New York was planning to live alone, but ended up doing just the opposite — and loving it.

Has your mortgage come back from the dead? It probably wasn’t really gone, it was likely just hiding.

As the Supreme Court weighs whether cities can criminalize sleeping outdoors or in tents, Los Angeles is attempting to combat homelessness with tiny homes that some people criticize as inadequate and even ‘inhumane.’

Shareholders have a right to know about the building’s expenses, and there are ways to look inside the books.

As the Supreme Court weighs whether cities can criminalize sleeping outdoors or in tents, Los Angeles is attempting to combat homelessness with tiny homes criticized by some as ‘inhumane.’

The Yankees legend initially put the compound on the market in 2018 for $14.25 million. This time, the asking price was $6.3 million.

A two-cottage compound on Lubbers Quarters Cay, a three-bedroom bungalow on Great Exuma island, and a two-bedroom condo on Paradise Island.

For a tiny apartment in London, the solution was a shape-shifting bank of custom cabinetry built on a tight budget.

Darren Spaziani, a top executive for Louis Vuitton, is selling his three-bedroom co-op with outdoor space on West 23rd Street.

Decades after arriving in Japan as a Latter-day Saints missionary, an American C.E.O. collected decaying treasures across the country, including a decommissioned Buddhist temple, and contrived a fantasy.

Seeking enough space for a music studio, a guest room and some outdoor space, a New York City couple searched south of Prospect Park for a house that fit their needs.

The formidable arts institution has hired a design team to reconsider its relationship with its neighborhood.

This week’s properties are on West End Avenue, in the East Village and in Jackson Heights.

This week’s properties are four-bedroom homes in Smithtown, N.Y., and Stamford, Conn.

As the third season of the Netflix hit resumes, we share some home-value estimates for the luxurious dwellings used as locations.

Sprinklers? Kiddie pools? What’s your creative solution to find respite from sweltering heat?

A Craftsman bungalow in Denver, a midcentury-modern home in Riverside and an 1841 Cape Cod house in Newburyport.

Where the Tony nominee takes refuge: a “sweet little house” on five bosky acres in Connecticut.

It didn’t help that it was straight out of ‘Twin Peaks’: ‘Wood on wood on wood, in a very terrifying way.’ But now it’s bright and airy.

A hillside home in Tiburon, a ranch-style house in Calabasas and a midcentury retreat in Palm Springs.

When it comes to rent-stabilized tenants, legal claims against co-ops are tricky. Ultimately, it’s the apartment’s owner who must take action.

The triplex penthouse has a faux-starlight installation of the Milky Way, a bathroom inspired by the Yellow Submarine, and more, the WeWork founder’s brokers say.

Two apartments and a single-family villa in and around the port city on the river Garonne, in southwestern France.

You may think you know how to make your bed — but here’s how to make it a lot better.