A midcentury-modern house in Los Angeles, a ranch-style retreat in Palm Springs and a modern farmhouse in St. Helena.

A rent-controlled apartment is a rare thing, and so is the family that shared their home with students and refugees, rent-free, over the decades.

As housing costs soar, younger adults are trying to reimagine prosperity — without the white picket fence.

When a new owner takes over a rental building, there can be confusion about the status of the units inside.

Thousands of readers shared frustrations, fears and disappointments with American politics, and how they are able to live and work in another country.

The path to a life in a new country is often paved with complicated visa and residency requirements.

The customized home has a propane range, an incinerating toilet and movable solar panels (for off-the-grid travel). Now the only question is where to go next.

A five-bedroom estate with 18th-century origins, a semidetached seven-bedroom Victorian house, and a converted corn mill with six bedrooms.

Looking for a change of scenery, a family left the Nevada desert for the cooler climes of the East Coast. These were the houses they considered.

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Rye, N.Y., and a five-bedroom in Ocean City, N.J.

This week’s properties are in Midtown, Union Square and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Homeowners are afraid to leave behind great deals they locked in years ago, tethered to their property by “the rate-lock effect” or “golden handcuffs.”

Fewer buyers are coming from New Jersey and more are coming from California, according to a study that tracked sales during the first half of the year.

The TV host is trading his 3,500-square-foot apartment, painstakingly assembled over nearly 21 years, for a penthouse in the same neighborhood.

A saltbox-style house in Ancram, a Tudor Revival cottage in Richmond and a four-bedroom home in St. Louis.

After being tied up in litigation for years, an assemblage of 13 properties on the cliffs west of Hoboken will see what the market has in store for them.

Getting there required buying something far worse than the typical fixer-upper: “It was like excavating in Pompeii.”

A gallery in Manhattan is to exhibit a selection of the abstract works of Iria Leino, a pioneer in New York in the ’60s and a mystery to many in the art world.

A 1931 Spanish-style house in Glendale, a floating home in Sausalito and a waterfront retreat in San Rafael.

City codes govern the removal of construction debris, including keeping waste contained.