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  1. How To: Arrange Flowers

    The Simplest (and Cheapest) Way to Decorate With Flowers

    It starts in your own backyard (or the tiny container garden on your balcony): “You can put a single bloom in a flower vase, and that is often enough.”

     By Tim McKeough

    Anthony Bellomo, left, and Christopher Spitzmiller often decorate their house in Millbrook, N.Y., with flowers from the garden. (Here, they cut chocolate cosmos from a container.)
    Anthony Bellomo, left, and Christopher Spitzmiller often decorate their house in Millbrook, N.Y., with flowers from the garden. (Here, they cut chocolate cosmos from a container.)
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    1. What you Get

      $600,000 Homes in Edinburgh

      A mews apartment, a two-bedroom in a semidetached Victorian villa, and a three-bedroom in a rowhouse with a private backyard.

       By Alison Gregor

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  1. Homes for Sale in Connecticut and New York

    This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Weston, Conn., and a five-bedroom in Stony Brook, N.Y.

     By Claudia Gryvatz Copquin and Alicia Napierkowski

    On the Market

  2. How Do You Restore a Chestnut Forest or an Apple Orchard? Very Slowly.

    This botanic garden is determined to bring back the American chestnut tree and heirloom apples that taste like those grown 500 years ago. It won’t be easy.

     By Margaret Roach

    At the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, in Boylston, Mass., the grafted heirloom apple trees are already big enough to bloom. But fruit isn’t expected for a few more years.
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    IN THE GARDEN

  3. $550,000 Homes in Maine, the District of Columbia and Kentucky

    A two-bedroom cottage in Castine, a one-bedroom apartment in a Beaux-Arts building in Washington and a circa-1900 house in Louisville.

     By Angela Serratore

    CreditKrystal Brouty/Above ME Aerial Imagery
    What You Get

  4. Cowboy Hats and Koi Fish Photos? There’s a Reason.

    Some interior designers decorate their adult apartments to be reminded of the hometowns where they grew up.

     By Heather Senison

    A row of Lucchese Western boots await visitors at the entry to Andrew Torrey’s home, one of many nods to his upbringing on a farm.
    CreditKatherine Marks for The New York Times

  5. A New World Order for Renters? Well, It Worked for This Guy.

    During the pandemic, a man realized he was free to work remotely in any city he wanted, in the U.S. and abroad. After moving a dozen times, he had a second epiphany.

     By D.W. Gibson

    After spending a year as a nomad, living in a dozen cities around the world, Khaled Khaled made a second stop in New York and couldn’t resist the temptation to finally settle down.
    CreditJames Estrin/The New York Times
    renters

  1. $5 Million Homes in California

    A stone villa in Calistoga, a Spanish-style retreat in Santa Barbara and a four-bedroom house with a guest cottage in Los Angeles.

     By Angela Serratore

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    What You Get

  2. Three People in a One-Bedroom Apartment? They Found a Clever Solution.

    Co-op rules meant they couldn’t add a second bedroom, so they came up with an elegant workaround.

     By Julie Lasky

    The lower level in Molly Garber and Braden Pierce’s Fort Greene duplex was redesigned with a sleeping niche and a home office.
    CreditKate Glicksberg for The New York Times
    Living small

  3. How Fast Food Is Getting Faster

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

     By Celia Young

    Chick-fil-A opened its first takeout-only store in Manhattan in March, joining a wave of retailers experimenting with smaller outposts.
    CreditRobert Wright for The New York Times

  4. $1.3 Million Homes in Belgium

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

     By Marcelle Sussman Fischler

    CreditEngel & Volkers Brasschaat
    What you Get

  5. Pandemic-Era Newlyweds Consider an Age-Old Question: To Buy or Not to Buy?

    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.

     By Heather Senison

    Kathleen Li and Matthew Molnar hoped to find a place with enough room to raise a family and work from home occasionally. “They were by far the best buyers I’ve ever worked with,” said Eric Zollinger, their real estate agent.
    CreditSara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York Times
    The Hunt

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  1. When Your Neighbor Renovates, How Do You Protect Your Home?

    A law exists to balance the interests of people who renovate their properties with the interests of their neighbors.

     By Jill Terreri Ramos

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  2. Co-op Assessments: Do You Have to Pay What They Say?

    Courts allow co-op boards significant power over building finances, including assessments — if the fees are in ‘good faith.’

     By Jill Terreri Ramos

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  3. I Hired an Agent to Sell My Home. Do I Have to Pay the Buyer’s Broker Now?

    The legal settlements roiling the real estate industry are changing the way commissions get paid. But the change could come slowly.

     By Jill Terreri Ramos

    CreditNadia Pillon

  4. My Neighbor Has a Very Annoying Emotional Support Dog. What Can I Do?

    As long as this dog isn’t biting people, it’s probably not going anywhere. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to live with the noise.

     By Jill Terreri Ramos

    CreditNadia Pillon

  5. I Can’t Use My Co-op’s Keypad Entry on the Sabbath. Am I Entitled to a Side Door Key?

    Because of your religious beliefs, your co-op could face legal liability if it fails to accommodate your request.

     By Jill Terreri Ramos

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Living In

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  1. Bernardsville, N.J.: A Gilded Age Enclave Looking to the Future

    With grand estates and rolling meadows, this Somerset County borough has long attracted the wealthy. But now it’s courting younger, less affluent buyers.

     By Jill P. Capuzzo

    CreditJennifer Pottheiser for The New York Times

  2. Ringwood, N.J.: A Rural Lifestyle 40 Miles From New York City

    Residents say this northern Passaic County borough resembles the Catskills: “You’re in the country, and yet you’re not far from the city.”

     By Kathleen Lynn

    CreditLaura Moss for The New York Times

  3. Brooklyn Heights: A Historic Waterfront Community Minutes From Manhattan

    The neighborhood, known as New York’s first suburb, is a place where ‘people want to stay forever.’

     By Aileen Jacobson

    The Manhattan skyline and the rejuvenated piers of Brooklyn Bridge Park can be seen from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
    CreditJanice Chung for The New York Times

  4. Medford, N.J.: A Rural Township With a Quaint Downtown

    The Burlington County community often surprises new residents with its woodsy vibe: “It’s not at all what we thought of when we thought of New Jersey.”

     By Jill P. Capuzzo

    CreditHannah Beier for The New York Times

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  10. What You Get

    $2.4 Million Homes in California

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

    By Angela Serratore

     
  11. Ask Real Estate

    What Is a Flip Tax, and Who Has to Pay It?

    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.

    By Jill Terreri Ramos

     
  12. What you Get

    $1.5 Million Homes in Prague

    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.

    By Joann Plockova

     
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