Various laws and regulations dictate where people can and can’t light up. Here’s how to make sure they’re enforced.

Teachers, police officers, firefighters and other workers live in overcrowded and substandard housing, or even in their cars on the beach.

Inspired by homes open to their natural settings, an architect designed a house on the Greek island of Corfu with minimal barriers from the “wild landscape.”

In and around the coastal town of San Juan del Sur, planned communities offer buyers a range of homes with waterfront views and in ecological reserves.

The influencer and former collegiate gymnast tried to buy the Manhattan two-bedroom, but instead joined the ranks of high-profile rejects like Madonna and Calvin Klein.

Drawn to both the natural majesty and restaurant scene in Rappahannock County, Va., a recent empty-nester looked for a comfortable three-bedroom house for about $500,000.

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Medford Lakes, N.J., and a four-bedroom in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.

This week’s properties are in the West Village, on the Upper West Side and in Clinton Hill.

Co-buying is not without its challenges, but it offers young buyers a way into an increasingly expensive market.

An Italianate home in Kingston, a condo in Chicago and an expanded 1925 house in Salem.

From baby proofing to feng shui, homeowners and renters can hire professional help for just about anything.

As cleanup continues in the notoriously polluted Gowanus Canal, amenity-filled developments are drawing new residents to the neighborhood. Is that a good thing?

Branches across the country offer supplies and classes to help novices or those who don’t want to spring for an expensive power tool a way to take on home improvement.

Living in the same apartment building as a family member has provided the right balance of privacy and comfort to some New Yorkers.

The four-story modern house in Fort Greene, which the artist had built two decades ago, is asking $6.5 million.

Ohad Fisherman had been charged with sexual battery along with Oren and Alon Alexander stemming from an alleged 2016 assault.

A three-bedroom kit house in Los Angeles, a two-bedroom cottage in Santa Rosa, and a three-bedroom home in Palm Springs.

After 20 years in Los Angeles, an actor moved home to Birmingham to be close to his ailing mother.

When Patricia Brennecke returned to the rental market in the Bay Area, she was frustrated by how expensive apartments were, in an almost entirely digital market.

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor descended from Horace Greeley.