As children, they watched their parents work double shifts and multiple jobs. As adults, they gave their parents a version of the American dream.

A modernist house in Alto de Pinheiros, an eight-acre estate in Campos do Jordão, and a 15th-floor apartment with city views.

You have the right to seek documents and records from your building. Here’s how to do it.

The city’s new climate budgeting program is investing billions in keeping the city cool as the climate gets hotter.

The designer Shawn Henderson leans into simple greens and vintage lights for his home in Hillsdale, N.Y.

Also among November’s high-end real estate listings were Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s West Hollywood condo and Chris Chelios’s beachfront compound in Malibu.

When their Ditmas Park apartment became too cramped, a young family looked for a house in central Brooklyn where they could spread out. Here’s what they found.

This week’s properties are in Carnegie Hill, Harlem and Clinton Hill.

This week’s properties are a six-bedroom in Morristown and a four-bedroom in Mattituck.

“The City of Four Seasons” sits on the western edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Once known as the “Unhampton,” Sag Harbor now has more in common with its neighboring beach destinations. A house on Henry Street is emblematic of this transformation.

An American Foursquare in Pittsburgh, a Victorian-era home in Cincinnati and a renovated farmhouse in Winchester.

Fine Objects Society, a members’ club, doesn’t want to be dusty.

Natasha Durham, founder of a handbag company, wanted her architect to focus more on light and shapes than on practical matters, like the number of bathrooms.

Not even Brooklyn could tempt Christopher Stone and David Fox to leave their shoebox in the West Village.

A midcentury modern compound in Yucca Valley, a cabin in Cazadero and a townhouse in Oakland.

The former television producer Wendy Prior Fentress finds the most important background characters for films and shows.

Many co-op leases allow for graduated levels of board approval for heirs who want to live in the building.

A century of American kitchen design, from the dawn of electricity to the kitchen island.

Sports arenas across the country are opening members-only spaces for high-net-worth fans to mix business and pleasure.