People around the country are building private rinks — some with as little as a garden hose and patience.

With two children under 5, a couple of first-time buyers wanted a three-bedroom house with a yard to play in and an easy commute to their new jobs. Here’s what they found.

This week’s properties are four-bedroom homes in Nissequogue, N.Y., and Surf City, N.J.

This week’s properties are in Alphabet City, the Flatiron district and Jackson Heights.

A study looked at the cost-savings of moving in together.

A Carpenter Gothic-style home in Irvington, a cottage in the Berkshires and a two-bedroom brick house in Columbus.

When war came to her country, Alla Olkhovska had been planning to open a rare-plants nursery. Now her Clematis seeds have an international following.

Nir Meir helped run the firm HFZ Capital Group, which became a major developer of luxury housing but collapsed amid investor lawsuits and foreclosures.

Dr. Woodson’s house, the birthplace of the annual month, was a hub of scholarship, bringing together generations of intellectuals, writers and activists.

Here’s how one couple brought their historic house into the 21st century with ‘color, character and eccentricity.’

Here’s how one couple brought their Federal house in Salem, Mass., into the 21st century — with ‘color, character and eccentricity.’

In Bushwick, the neighborly ‘hello’ in the hallway led to hanging out in each other’s apartments, and spirited theater-karaoke nights singing show tunes.

A pop-up ice skating rink has finally come to Brooklyn Bridge Park, a decade after developers planned it.

An adobe compound in Joshua Tree, a one-bedroom condominium in West Hollywood and a bungalow within walking distance of the beach in Aptos.

There are several avenues you can take to try to get better leadership. Whichever you choose, make sure it stands up to legal scrutiny.

Take a look at high-profile residential property sales.

After getting to know the Queens neighborhood as a renter, a tennis instructor with a job on Randall’s Island went looking for a place of his own in a relatively new building.

This week’s properties are six-bedroom in Danbury, Conn., and Millwood, N.Y.

This week’s properties are in Kips Bay, Turtle Bay and on the Grand Concourse.

Baby boomers who are now empty nesters own twice as many large homes as millennials with children.