With feelings of isolation exacerbated by a yearslong pandemic, many people view conversation pits as the ultimate symbol of intimacy.

This week’s available listings are in the Financial District, Gramercy and Mott Haven.

And among those who moved out of their childhood bedroom, a third are spending about half of their monthly income on rent or mortgage.

Reluctant to renew an expensive lease, and working remotely, a first-time buyer took her $700,000 budget to three Brooklyn neighborhoods. These were her options.

More foreign buyers are investing in Italy’s northern Lombardy region, where agents say ‘the demand will never crash.’

An 1838 cottage in East Hampton, a three-bedroom bungalow in Miami Shores and a Spanish Colonial Revival house in Richmond.

Grab your iPhone: Andrew Brand wants to show you a side of your garden that you’ve never seen before (and how to photograph it).

Designers and home stagers make it look so easy. Here’s how they do it.

Designers and home stagers make it look so easy. Here’s how they do it.

A 1923 Mediterranean-style house in Pasadena, a Victorian in Fair Oaks and a Craftsman bungalow in Redwood City.

Lisa Willis had long wanted to move to New York to be near her family, although she knew how expensive the city was. Covid made her rethink her priorities.

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

What bothers one person may not bother another, but when enough residents band together to complain, action often follows.

Neighborhoods, including rural ones, are getting brighter. That’s not a good thing, according to our writer. What is the point of an illuminated shrub at 2 a.m.?

This week’s available properties are a seven-bedroom mansion in Edgewater Park, N.J., and a four-bedroom farmhouse in Orient, N.Y.

This week’s available properties are in Downtown Brooklyn, Hell’s Kitchen and Lenox Hill.

A recent study examined natural disasters, eviction rates and rental laws to determine where U.S. renters could feel most at home.

Feeling not ‘established enough for a co-op board,’ an East Village renter searched one-bedroom apartments in newer buildings. By the time he found one, it was a home for two.

The popular mountain town on the Caldera River is enticing a wider group of buyers, with remote workers joining retirees in a heated market.

A seasonal cottage in Wellfleet, a farmhouse in Follansbee and a three-bedroom rowhouse in Wilmington.