It depends on what kind of apartment you rent. And it may actually be a good idea.

In her final entry as The New York Times’s Ask Real Estate columnist, Ronda Kaysen reflects on what it means to give endless advice.

Neither development nor demolition has occurred in a community on a cliff in New Jersey since an investor group bought 12 houses in the late 2000s.

The sharing economy has come to apartment buildings — and landlords have discovered a new way to attract tenants.

The chairman of Estée Lauder paid nearly $25 million for a full-floor unit at 778 Park, one floor below the full-floor apartment he already owns in the building.

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This week’s properties are on Riverside Drive, in Chelsea and Clinton Hill.

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Jamesport, N.Y., and a three-bedroom in Hopewell, N.J.

Insurance, taxes, maintenance and utility costs vary by region, driving up the true cost of homeownership.

With a budget of $650,000, a first-time buyer invited her younger sister to share a two-bedroom apartment in the nation’s capital — if she agreed to pay rent. Here’s where they landed.

Insurance, taxes, maintenance and utility costs vary by region, driving up the true cost of homeownership.

In a move that has stoked conflict with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a private developer unveiled a renovation plan that it says would save at least $1 billion.

Because there’s no such thing as too much Clematis, here’s how to get a little more — and make it last a little longer.

A three-bedroom rowhouse in Richmond, a hillside retreat in Black Mountain and a 1908 cottage in New Orleans.

The home’s interiors were too conservative for the couple who bought it, so they decided to shake things up. Their No. 1 priority: a fire pole.

Nearly one in three Americans living on the street and in shelters are in the representative’s home state of California.

Dinner and a show — that is, eating in front of the TV — only gets easier with the right furniture and a can-do attitude.

The seven-bedroom house also has garages for five cars, a game room and a wine cellar, but the rapper is ready to move on and diversify his real estate portfolio.

An 1888 Craftsman home in Berkeley, a midcentury retreat in Palm Springs and a French Normandy house in Los Angeles.

The upcoming movie and maximalism have sparked a palette made up primarily of hot pink.