Rent-stabilized tenants can choose a 3 percent increase on a one-year lease, or a 4.5 percent increase on a two-year lease. Which is the better option?
A recent uptick in burglaries of sports stars’ homes has league officials and law enforcement on alert.
The best fireplaces are focal points of a room with places to gather.
The city of Adelaide, in South Australia, offers shopping districts, green spaces and a residential man-made island. Here’s what you can get.
Other recent boldface listings were from the estates of Giorgio Armani and Johnny Carson’s ex-wife, Joanna.
The German practice of “lüften” is gaining traction on social media. It may improve your home air quality.
For John Moscato, a land developer in Las Cruces, N.M., installing gas lines at new home sites was “an ongoing headache.” Ditching gas saved him money.
Looking ahead to retirement, a New Orleans-based doctor and her partner were drawn to Panama for its affordable cost of living and ocean beaches. They just had to be willing to wait.
Google searches for terms like “mold toxicity” and “what is toxic mold” have increased over the last five years, but it’s unlikely that mold-related illness is also increasing.
This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Haddonfield, N.J., and a six-bedroom in Jamesport, N.J.
This week’s properties are in Harlem, Murray Hill and Crown Heights.
A few key necessities are driving dissatisfaction, particularly among the young, our poll finds.
In Phoebe Hollond’s 1860s London terrace house, the kitchen gets its personality in part from brass cabinet pulls and custom radiator covers.
There’s no easy answer as Massachusetts communities contemplate changing taxes for part-time residents.
Following a Times investigation, a state lawmaker is proposing the first health-based standards for assessing smoke contamination after wildfires.
A Greek Revival in Charleston, S.C., a Cape Cod in Roxbury, Conn., and a midcentury modern home in Denver.
A midcentury modern house in Santa Monica, a contemporary Spanish-style house in Redondo Beach and a cottage in Carmel-by-the-Sea
In the football offseason, the defensive tackle for Seattle, and his wife, Hailey, return to their sunny place.
About 150 homes were evacuated overnight on Saturday after a gas explosion set off a four-alarm blaze in a public housing complex.
Does it have low cash reserves? High common charges? Routine maintenance? There are ways to obtain this information.
Massive wall reliefs are the new frontier in luxury lighting
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This week’s properties are a six-bedroom house overlooking Luce Bay, a converted church from 1767, and a restored seven-bedroom house next to an abbey.
Whether you’re working on a simple fix or a big project, the smaller version of a tool is almost always the better one.
America must act now to protect homeowners and the economy from the threat of extreme weather.
The Sundance Film Festival is moving on from Park City, Utah. What does that mean for its longtime host?
After meeting in Phoenix and discovering they were both from Southern California, a couple plotted their return. Here’s what they found at the border of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.
This week’s properties are a four-bedroom house in Southold, N.Y., and a three-bedroom in Stamford, Conn.
This week’s properties are in Midtown, Lincoln Square and Fieldston.
Air pollution and health outcomes vary by geography, but patterns in the city can be surprising.
Two business owners in India searched several cities for land suitable for a farmstead. When they finally found it, they encountered another obstacle.
The justices were alert to the central bank’s crucial role and wary of issuing a broad ruling based on rushed briefing and incomplete information.
A craftsman in Washington, a condo in Lexington and a rowhouse in Pittsburgh
The theater legend and ‘Familiar Touch’ star hosts friends and artists in her expansive Brooklyn brownstone.
A Kennington home — expanded but still compact at 1,000 square feet and trimmed in green brick — was named the Jealous House by its architect.
A ranch house in South Lake Tahoe, a Queen Anne Revival in San Jose and a bungalow in Los Angeles
After years of planning, Artur Walther and the architecture firm SO-IL built a house for communing with nature.
Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.
There are about one million rent-stabilized units in New York City, and fewer than 25,000 rent-controlled units.
Lucas Sweeten converted his first school bus into a mobile home in 2007. Now he works with students to transform school buses to help their communities.
The sale of the apartments, whose residents had complained of neglect by management, to a troubled firm is an early test of the new mayor’s ability to deliver for tenants.
This week’s properties are a designer’s four-bedroom house in Sète; an apartment in Montpellier’s historic center; and a country-styled villa also in Montpellier.
Anthony Hopkins buys another house in Los Angeles and Martha Plimpton bids farewell to Brooklyn.
Rosalind Hernandez, who worked in a co-op building in Manhattan, befriended and then bilked a vulnerable resident, prosecutors said.
Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare a swift stock offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.
The death of Kate Whiteman, whose accusation of sexual assault against Oren and Alon Alexander opened a floodgate of similar allegations, is under investigation.
When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.
This week, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo released fraught earnings reports as President Trump’s threatened cap on credit card rates loomed large.
After their daughters left for college, a couple looked to trade their suburban lifestyle for a new house near Helena’s central core. Here’s what they found.
This week’s properties are in Dumbo, the Upper East Side and Chelsea.
Homeowners in the Bronx and Queens owned their homes the longest before selling in 2025.
This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Yonkers and a five-bedroom in Fairfield.
For half a century, a federal program has covered most at-risk properties. Now, a private company is pitching a plan to shrink the government’s role.
A midcentury-modern in Eugene, Ore., an 1884 farmhouse in McKinney, Texas, and an 1890 townhouse in Hudson, N.Y.
The English fashion journalist and designer created a cottagecore fantasy with Georgian-style treasures, layered lighting and antique artwork.
Under Bill Pulte, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have pulled away from efforts to help low-income people buy homes.
When the snowfall’s good, signs reading “closed for a powder day” appear on the doors of local businesses.
The real story of how immigrant labor came to define the construction industry.
A December purchase of 937,000 acres of land brought Mr. Kroenke’s total holdings to 2.7 million acres, according to a new report.
White House officials have explored a vast array of ideas as the president looks to unfurl a housing affordability plan at an economic conference this month.
A Gothic Revival in Napa, a Spanish-style house in Los Angeles and an Arts and Crafts-style house in San Diego.
Andrew Forsyth, who works in commercial real estate, is bullish about his industry and just a bit ambivalent about renting, at least for now.
Pedro Rafael Gómez dreamed of becoming an interior designer. Relocating to Portland provided him with the perfect first canvas.
The dream of cohabitating with a group of friends is an attractive fantasy, but we can benefit from its lessons, regardless of our living situation.
Buildings have rules. New York has laws. But sometimes, it’s best to start with a friendly conversation.
Summit Properties USA won an auction on Friday to buy more than 5,000 apartments out of bankruptcy from the Pinnacle Group despite City Hall’s efforts to intervene.
First signed into agreement in September 2025, the merger brings together the largest and second-largest real estate firms in the United States.
A three-bedroom villa in the Abaco Islands, a three-bedroom condo in Nassau, and an oceanfront villa on Eleuthera.
Your home’s color scheme could come from a painting, a flower bed or even a shade of lipstick.
The move, a bid to make homes more affordable, would be a back-to-future moment for the two mortgage firms. Buying risky mortgage bonds helped push them to near-bankruptcy in 2008.
Trump’s plan to block institutional investment won’t work. The way to make houses more affordable is to build more.
With their sights set on an income-generating investment they could also live in, two Californians set out to buy a traditional home in the city of Atami.
This week’s properties are in Midtown, Murray Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Ridgefield, Conn., and a five-bedroom in Marlboro, N.J.
They live on Billionaires’ Row, but they’re not billionaires. And now the residents of a 57th Street building could face a leap of more than 100 percent in their maintenance costs.
More older adults are renting out rooms in their homes to make ends meet.
The death of TJ Kimball was a private tragedy that underscores a widespread risk in the stressful field.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is eyeing Jersey City, N.J., for ideas as he looks to address New York’s housing crisis. For residents, the surge in development has been a mixed blessing.
The president said he wanted Congress to stop the purchases by big investors, which have driven up rents and set obstacles for first-time buyers in some markets.
After wildfires destroyed much of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, residents are struggling with how to move forward and who is to blame.
A 1920 cottage in Nashville, a contemporary condo in Kansas City and a 1950s bungalow in Orlando.
Leaders use a mix of new rules, visual aids and incentives to convince residents to protect their homes — and entire neighborhoods — from wildfires.
Experts are predicting a return to craft and focus on individuality.
Buyers paying in cash accounted for 64 percent of co-op and condo sales last year, edging out hopeful buyers needing mortgages.
An architect who wanted a bicoastal life took on a 1,000-square-foot second home built below street level in Silver Lake.
This week’s properties include a 1969 cottage in Mendocino, a 1980 Mediterranean-style house in Rancho Mirage and a 1922 bungalow in Los Angeles.
One year later, we haven’t really begun to reckon with the real meaning of the Los Angeles fires.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani named a housing commissioner and announced that the city would hold public hearings where frustrated renters could voice their complaints.
Fees for certain improvements and conveniences in rent-stabilized buildings can be allowed. But landlords can’t just charge for anything.
The mayor has kept his vow to lower crime in New York City, but the city’s economic recovery has stalled and homelessness has risen.
Many Americans bought their first houses when mortgage rates dipped to record lows. Some are ready to move but feel locked in by their low rates.
On the cusp of choosing the city’s next mayor, New Yorkers are taking stock of their town. But many are split on whether it’s back on track, or off the rails.
The 38-story building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan will be turned into 1,250 apartments.
Municipalities are encouraging office conversions with incentives and rule changes.
New York City was on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis. It has largely recovered, but has transformed into a place of greater extremes.
Whether you fled a crowded city or thought a puppy was the answer, the glimpses of another life we got during Covid have faded away.
Legislation would end tenant protections that were first put in place during the pandemic.
The pandemic upset a delicate balance of part-time and full-time residents in a community in the Poconos, sparking a debate over short-term rentals.
A surge of new residents into Rocky Mountain states drove up home prices. The result was property tax increases of 40 percent or more for some of those already there.
Unlike most of his predecessors, he has had few accomplishments while leading New York City. But there’s still time to change that.
The city has rebounded from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic in meaningful ways. But the recovery is incomplete and uneven.
Chastened by a series of economic downturns that punished the hospitality industry, state leaders are working to broaden the economy.
Gross domestic product expanded 5.2 percent, as China worked to export more to make up for weak demand, high debt and a steep property contraction at home.
The Federal Reserve’s relentless attack on inflation has jeopardized the housing market.
Everyone who relies on credit in America is confronting a new reality: Money will cost more for a good long while.
Federal Reserve officials forecast higher interest rates through 2026 this week, a sign that borrowing costs are not heading back to the rock-bottom levels normal before the pandemic.
Hace un siglo, un edificio bien ventilado se consideraba una buena práctica sanitaria. Pero cuando llegó la COVID-19, nuestros edificios apenas podían respirar. ¿Cómo ocurrió eso? ¿Y cómo conseguimos ahora que el aire fresco ingrese a nuestras casas?
In New Zealand, high interest rates have sent property prices sliding nearly 18 percent since November 2021.
A century ago, a well-ventilated building was considered good medicine. But by the time Covid-19 arrived, our buildings could barely breathe. How did that happen? And how do we let the fresh air back in?
Dr. Franklin and giving credit to women for their scientific contributions. Also: New College of Florida; Black unemployment; housing solutions; Covid risks.
The banking crisis may be just getting started.
Many of the nation’s major cities face a daunting future.
Facing an existential crisis over empty space, owners are trying to fill malls with residences, building on the live-work-play model sought by young adults.
New arrivals over the last few years have fueled hopes of population growth, but workers increasingly struggle to find housing in a market gone wild.
Before the pandemic, turning a house into a hub for big gatherings seemed like a good idea.
What is it like to pour your life savings into apartments that might never get built?
The New York City Housing Authority collected just 65 percent of the rent it charged in the 12 months leading up to December, the lowest percentage in the agency’s history.
Federal guidelines require employees’ health information to be kept confidential. But employers also have an obligation to protect the workplace.
From Barbiecore to revenge travel, social media trends gave us a clear picture of the forces reshaping the economy.
Airbnb se ha convertido en un destino en el que estadounidenses y europeos encuentran alquileres de largo plazo en la capital mexicana, trastocando el mercado local.
American and Europeans are using Airbnb to find long-term rentals in Mexico’s capital, pushing housing costs higher and, critics say, forcing out local residents.
Years into the pandemic, it is still difficult to get a handle on what comes next for the economy by looking at examples from the past.
For many middle- and working-class New Yorkers, it’s an even more distant possibility than it used to be.
In a city of renters, the turbulent pandemic housing market is making it harder than ever to buy a home.
Puja Patel wanted her own apartment and wanted to be within walking distance of her new job as an emergency room doctor at Mount Sinai Queens.
Inflation-corrected prices may end up substantially lower as factors driving high home prices weaken with time.
In a rare act of defiance, people across the country who bought property from indebted developers are refusing to repay loans on their unfinished apartments.
A House subcommittee investigation found four firms were responsible for nearly 15,000 eviction filings while there were moratoriums on evictions.
More than 40 percent of the available units in Manhattan currently come from tenants priced out of apartments they leased in 2020 and 2021, according to a new StreetEasy report.
The project promises to update the notorious eyesore but critics of the plan are concerned about the cost.
And among those who moved out of their childhood bedroom, a third are spending about half of their monthly income on rent or mortgage.
Shifting demographics are reshaping complexes built for older Americans, who are looking for a variety of rates and services.
Many people changed where and how they lived, but “upgrading their policies for all of these experiences fell by the wayside,” an appraisal executive said.
Apartment hunting in the city has never been easy, but now the search has become seemingly impossible as prices soar. Readers told us about their pandemic housing struggles — and eventual successes.
Rarely have so many Americans gained so much equity in so little time, but it’s also inseparable from the housing affordability crisis.