A townhouse in Belém, an apartment with a balcony in Santos and an apartment on a plaza in Alfama.

Pearl House, at 160 Water Street, is designed to bring personality to its neighborhood — whether you think that’s FiDi or the Seaport.

When the bathroom leak in her Bed-Stuy rental became too much to bear, an Alabama native looked around Prospect Heights, Williamsburg and Crown Heights for something she could afford to buy.

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Port Washington and a horse farm in Upper Freehold.

This week’s properties are on Central Park West, in Chelsea and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

A law exists to balance the interests of people who renovate their properties with the interests of their neighbors.

Thanks to huge increases in values, with home sellers making double or triple what they paid, more sales are triggering the capital gains tax.

An early 19th-century Cape Cod-style home with a writing studio in Provincetown, a 1939 cottage in Austin and an 1840 house in Charleston.

“Their disdain for this house,” the designer said, “was a green light to give it a whole new life.”

A 1926 Spanish-style home in Pasadena, a five-bedroom retreat in Lake Arrowhead and a midcentury ranch house in La Mesa.

It’s not that easy to tell fake Donald Judd furniture from the real thing. See if you can do a better job than Kim Kardashian.

After moving 10 times in 10 years, a woman found that a little luck was the best companion for a lot of hard work. She won a studio in a lottery on her fifth try.

Fueled by the public’s love of reality TV and desire to view luxury homes, real estate agents are chasing fame as fervently as they chase deals.

Some communities with religious origins now offer spiritual programming as just one of many enticements, like the bingo nights of yesteryear.

Fueled by the public’s love of reality TV and desire to view luxury homes, real estate agents are chasing fame as fervently as they chase deals.

Rent-stabilized tenants can request to sublet their apartments in most cases, and landlords cannot unreasonably withhold consent. But what is ‘reasonable?’

HomeServices of America, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States, will settle the claims brought by home sellers who said they were forced to pay inflated commissions, pending court approval.

A solar-powered seafront villa, a three-bedroom house with gardens near Shoal Bay Beach, and a presale in a six-home development opposite the Four Seasons Resort Anguilla.

A writer reflects on what it means to lose nearly everything in a disaster, as she moves into a new home.

Having poured thousands into an older house with maintenance issues, a single mother aimed her $450,000 budget at something newer and nicer for herself and her teenager. Here’s what she found.