Wishing to be closer to their children and grandchildren, a couple left Philadelphia to check out townhouse communities in Dutchess County. Here’s what they found.

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom contemporary house in Pound Ridge, N.Y., and a three-bedroom cabin in Medford Lakes, N.J.

This week’s properties are in the Sutton Place neighborhood, Lincoln Square and Jackson Heights.

The building, to be known as 520 Fifth Avenue, is adorned with setbacks and arches, nods to classic New York City architecture.

A Craftsman-style house from 1906 in Denver, a turn-of-the-century townhouse in Washington, D.C., and a Queen Anne Revival-style house in Fredericksburg, Va.

The landscape designer Donald Pell believes using a wider palette with nonnatives from around the world can add joy to gardens.

More couples are asking their wedding guests to help them purchase a home, eschewing traditional gifts like small appliances and linens.

When a woman made her weekend place on Long Island her full-time residence, she had it redesigned to fit her new life, and to allow for lots of friends to visit.

A 1924 Spanish Revival house in Los Angeles, a 1962 midcentury-modern house in San Rafael, and a recently remodeled 1916 house in Oakland.

Every building is different. What to do with internal trash and recycling storage are up to the residents and managers.

Offerings in the coastal city in northwest Portugal include a modern duplex penthouse, a restored stone house with vineyards, and a five-bedroom house in the historic center of town.

How else are you going to decorate with AstroTurf and plywood, or install your own ceramics studio?

The celebrated musician has decided to part with the house of his wildest childhood dreams.

The residents are the first in the state of Maine to successfully utilize a new law making it easier for them to compete with investors and gain ownership of the land their homes sit on.

Unable to afford an apartment of his own in England’s pricey capital, a longtime renter and his friend decided to pool their resources for a two-bedroom flat.

This week’s properties are in Harlem, the financial district and the Columbia Waterfront District.

An analysis of millions of rental listings found that people more often saved and shared units with practical and communal amenities over luxury offerings.

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom house in Oyster Bay, N.Y., and a three-bedroom house in East Amwell, N.J.

Mapping the people, homes and hot spots that transformed Harlem during its Renaissance.

A four-bedroom stone house in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., a 19th-century farmhouse in Germantown, N.Y., and am 18th-century Colonial in Essex, Conn.