The southern coast of the Central American nation offers beachfront villas, amenity-filled gated communities and activities near Panama City.

The townhouse, on West 11th Street, was the childhood home of the author Isabel Fonseca and, earlier, the residence of the sculptor Daniel Chester French.

Why professional designers swear by supermarket décor.

A recent retiree toured condos of all stripes in Minneapolis and St. Paul, looking for something he could get excited about. Here’s what he found.

This week’s properties are in Midtown, the West Village and Williamsburg.

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Redding, Conn., and a three-bedroom in Point Lookout, N.Y.

There’s financial help to relocate to West Virginia (and elsewhere).

A 19th-century brick house in Freeport, an 1839 home with Federal and Greek Revival elements in New Bern and a 1941 Colonial Revival house in Asbury Park.

It isn’t easy or fast, but it can be done. Here’s what worked for one couple.

Wander through the best-selling author’s palatial riverfront home in North Carolina.

A modernist house in Los Angeles, a hillside retreat in San Clemente and a three-bedroom home in San Mateo.

Two young actors were prepared to work hard to make it in New York theater. The rental market proved to be cutthroat.

State laws govern some of what a homeowners’ association can and can’t do, but the facts of each case are usually what matter most.

A tiny apartment in London shows that you don’t have to paint everything white to make a space feel larger than life.

The eastern Australian state with more than 4,000 miles of coastland offers renovated waterfront apartments, federation-style houses and rural multi-acre estates.

The artist Apryl Miller is selling her colorful, full-floor apartment at 188 East 76th Street for $8.75 million. Psychedelic chairs and couches sold separately.

This week’s properties are four-bedroom homes in Armonk, N.Y., and Point Pleasant, N.J.

With their first child on the way, a couple needed more space than they could afford on the Upper West Side. So they headed north.

This week’s properties are on the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side and in Astoria.

A study analyzed areas with populations between 10,000 and 50,000 and found the ones that are as expensive as major coastal cities.