Property Values: What You Get for … $175,000
A cabin in Heber City, Utah, a Gothic revival in Seneca Falls, N.Y., and a condo in Milwaukee.
On Location: Bringing a Taste of New York to Johannesburg
Adam Levy lives in a 10-story building that he converted into seven spacious floor-through apartments, including his own duplex penthouse that he finally completed last fall.
Square Feet: New Airport, Northwest Florida Beaches International, to Open
Backers said Northwest Florida Beaches International would bring new businesses and residents to the Florida Panhandle; critics said it would also bring environmental problems.
International Real Estate: House Hunting in … England
Surrey, a county to the southwest of London, suffered a real estate setback in 2008, after years of steady price increases.
Short-Sale Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss
The Obama administration will offer homeowners $1,500 to sell for less than the mortgage balance.
Robert Scarano, a Brooklyn Architect, Barred From Working
Robert M. Scarano Jr., who has tangled with community groups in Brooklyn, was found guilty of making false statements.
Living In | Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn: Living in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn
Vinegar Hill is nudged into a corner of the waterfront that seems, at least in part, forgotten by time.
Mortgages: Help for First-Time Buyers
The State of New York Mortgage Agency, or Sonyma, is offering 30-year affordable-housing loans at 4.75 percent.
Subsidized Moderate-Income Homes Defy Foreclosure Trend
Zandra Brockman bought a home through a city partnership.A city agency and nonprofit groups build or rehabilitate moderate-income housing, then scrutinize buyers’ credit. And they avoid the national foreclosure crisis.
Big Deal: Downsize Your Enthusiasm
Susie Essman has decided to sell the two-bedroom two-bath apartment at the Straus Park Condominium that she uses in New York City.
Big Deal: Rural Retreat
Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz, the founders of MALIN + GOETZ, a unisex skin care company, have decided to buy a farmhouse in the upper Hudson Valley.
Habitats: Home and Album
Arash Yomtobian and Lehman share an L-shaped studio apartment.Little more than a week after buying an apartment Arash Yomtobian’s employer, Lehman Brothers, announced plans to declare bankruptcy.
In the Region | Long Island: Rolling Waves and Rolling Homes
At Montauk Shores, a green vintage trailer and an unheated one-bedroom cottage are for sale. Plots in a low-key mobile-home park of 199 trailer-condos interspersed with a few stick-built shacks in Montauk Shores are available, but the structures cannot be replaced by houses.
Streetscapes | 53 East 79th Street: Where Fusty Is Fabulous
Since 1937 the New York Society Library, which is the oldest cultural institution in New York, has been housed on East 79th Street.
The Hunt: Hunters Revel in the Sounds of Silence
A bedroom door: That’s what Meghan Galewski and James Gonzalez wanted most.
Big Deal: A Brush With a Beatle
The new owner of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Nutopian Embassy, “a conceptual country” with no boundaries and “no laws other than cosmic,” has put it on the market.
The Renter Roadblock
Renters were a godsend when the market went into hibernation. But now that buyers are stirring, some owners wish their tenants would just go away.
In the Region | New Jersey: In New Jersey, the Telephone Challenge
The phone, once a real estate agent’s primary — well, only — mode of communication with a client, is making a comeback of sorts in these lean times.
In the Region | Westchester: A Sense That Now Is the Time
Stephen and Diana Zondorak bought a $137,000 co-op in Croton-on-Hudson even though they had been thinking house and had been preapproved for much more. “We think it's best to run lean,” Mr. Zondorak says.A look at the strategies of buyers venturing into the market shows Westchester as no longer being in free fall but still poised precariously.
Posting: New Housing in Midtown, for a Song
On 43rd Street off Eighth Avenue is a new seven-story building that offers low-income housing and affordable rehearsal space, which are both in short supply.
International Real Estate: House Hunting in … Tokyo
Japan’s persistent economic problems have made themselves felt in the local residential property market.
On Location: In Madrid, the Apartment That Came With a House
Felipe Rein Acebo-Gomez bought a 1,900-square-foot apartment that came with a three-story 1,300-square-foot casita.
Property Values: What You Get for … $280,000
A Victorian built in 1875 in Calvert, Tex., a row house in Philadelphia, and a house in Livingston, Mont.
Square Feet: Pittsburgh’s East Liberty Waking Up From Urban Renewal Coma
Two big commercial developments help revitalize a once-thriving neighborhood in the city’s East End.
Hochfelder’s Fast Rise and Fall in Real Estate
Now indicted for a second time, Adam C. Hochfelder once ran a partnership that managed or had a stake in eight million square feet.