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 “You gotta manifest positivity in your home-buying process.” By Kamie Crawford and Jenny Xie
  1. We Unearthed the 46 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now Several especially cool apartments in Greenwich Village, a quirky Red Hook apartment, and more.
    By Jenny Xie and Katy Schneider
  2. A $310K Clinton Hill Studio and a Massive Upper East Side One-Bedroom Plus, a $560K West Village studio that feels kind of like a full-size apartment.
    By Jenny Xie
  3. A Florida Family Bought the Viral Shag-Carpet House Without Setting Foot Inside It’ll soon be a vacation rental, but without all of the wall-to-wall carpeting.
    By Emma Alpern
  4. A Waterfall Wall in a Lower East Side Carriage House The owners transformed a vintage platform elevator shaft into a stairway with the waterfall as backdrop.
    By Megan Barber
  5. A 1796 Townhouse With a Skylit Copper Tub The 25-foot-wide brick townhouse on Harriston Street also has the biggest private backyard on the block.
    By Jenny Xie
  6. Wait — Kim Owns the Land and Kanye Owns the House? Who cares about the divorce — is the couple in a land-lease situation?
    By Hilary Reid
  7. Why Hasn’t Anyone Bought This William Lescaze House? A pioneering 1935 house has been on and off the market for years.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  8. 9 (Vetted) Winter Airbnbs to Rent Within Three Hours of NYC Including a Nordic-style two-bedroom with a dry sauna and a Belleayre Mountain spot where the host provides s’more kits.
    By Megan Barber
  9. A Townhouse on Prospect Park West With a Perfectly Preserved Art Deco Bathroom Built in 1915, the brick building also has a gated driveway and garage.
    By Jenny Xie
  10. L.A. Real-Estate Agent Dalton Gomez Announces Engagement to Pop Singer His fiancée is Ariana Grande, a performer from Boca Raton, Florida.
    By Alissa Walker
  11. A Wall-to-Wall (to Bed) Floral Room in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Childhood Townhouse It makes a convincing case for matching bedding, curtains, and wallpaper.
    By Jenny Xie
  12. A Shingled House With a 13,000-Square-Foot Deck on Quantuck Bay The 1987 home designed by the prolific Long Island architect Norman Jaffe is on the market for $18.7 million.
    By Megan Barber
  13. A Three-Bedroom With 18-Foot Ceilings in the West 67th Street Artists’ Colony There’s also a huge caramel-colored kitchen that has storage on all four sides and a center island with a built-in toaster.
    By Jenny Xie
  14. Spite-Watching the Rent Fall on Your Old NYC Apartment Someone else is going to get it for less, dammit.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  15. An Upper East Side Classic Six That Never Left 1979 Not one, but two, rooms have mirrored ceilings.
    By Jenny Xie
  16. This Modernist Landmark in New Orleans Has Had Only Two Owners Ever The glass and brick home of Buster Curtis Jr., the architect who designed the Louisiana Superdome, is on the market for $1.8 million.
    By Megan Barber
  17. Doug Emhoff, Second-Gentleman-Elect, Grew Up in This Building in Brooklyn The Midwood roots of Kamala Harris’s husband.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  18. McKim, Mead & White Designed This Castle, the Olmsted Brothers Did the Grounds The 24,000-square-foot mansion overlooking Tuxedo Lake has 14 bedrooms and 11.5 baths.
    By Megan Barber
  19. Upper West Side Home Has 4 Floors, 3 Spiral Staircases, and a Catwalk The lower half of the 1,700-square-foot apartment used to be the operating room of a former hospital.
    By Jenny Xie
  20. The Real-Estate Listings Tech Reporter Taylor Lorenz Likes to Stare At “I literally know every house in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.”
    By Taylor Lorenz and Jenny Xie
  21. Stone, Stucco, and Chimneys Galore: A Chateau in Litchfield County for $2.2M On the market for the first time in 26 years.
    By Megan Barber
  22. Blue’s Clues Steve Is Selling His (Blue!) Converted Garage in Williamsburg The Williamsburg home has a huge courtyard surrounded by glass walls (and two more big roof decks).
    By Jenny Xie
  23. The $99,900 Studios on Billionaires’ Row Carnegie House residents are racing to offload their apartments. Why?
    By Hilary Reid
  24. The Downtown Co-op of All Downtown Co-ops The Art Deco building One Fifth Avenue has long been an expression of a certain type of New York–ness.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  25. Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian on Market for First Time Since 1965, at $1.7M Located about 40 minutes north of Chicago, the Carr house has only ever had two owners.
    By Megan Barber
  26. A Downtown Duplex Loft With a Balcony Over Broadway Listed for $1.25 million, this airy one-bedroom at Bleecker Court comes renovated with an open kitchen and spiral staircase.
    By Jenny Xie
  27. Are You Radical Chic Enough to Live in Leonard Bernstein’s Apartment? Mmmm, these are nice. The apartment where Lenny and Felicia Bernstein held that notorious fundraiser is listed for $29.5 million.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  28. A Brooklyn Heights Curiosity Is on the Market for the First Time Architectural Record named it a “trend-setting house of 1969.”
    By Megan Barber
  29. A Very Private Triplex in Hudson Square Hits Market for First Time in 20 Years The unit, renovated into a three-bedroom, has only changed hands once since becoming a co-op in the 1970s.
    By Jenny Xie
  30. 70 Vetted Airbnbs — All Within Three Hours of New York City A renovated milk barn (on a working farm) in the Catskills, a Shaker-themed “chalet” in the Poconos, and 68 others.
    By The Editors
  31. Are There Really Billions of Dollars in Sandy Aid to Help NYCHA Fight COVID? Turns out the money is spoken for and is being spent on a fairly inflexible schedule.
    By Jeff Andrews
  32. The Real-Estate Listings Novelist Rumaan Alam Likes to Stare At “Listen, I’d probably do bad things to get this house.”
    By Rumaan Alam
  33. Can the Wall Street Foreclosure Vultures Be Stopped This Time? A chance to prevent private equity from devouring small landlords.
    By Jeff Andrews
  34. Mid-century House by a Frank Lloyd Wright Apprentice Is Now $1M Cheaper The sprawling 7,000-square-foot home stands out on a New Jersey street of Colonials and Tudors.
    By Megan Barber
  35. Just a Very Pretty Upper East Side Two-Bedroom The twice-renovated prewar unit comes with restored casement windows and five built-in arched bookshelves.
    By Jenny Xie
  36. Neutra’s Poolside Gossip House Asks $25M in Palm Springs The much-photographed house that helped to define postwar modernism in California is for sale.
    By Megan Barber
  37. WeWork Didn’t Blow Up Without Help SoftBank’s reckless $10 billion bet on what became the city’s biggest landlord won’t be the last of its kind.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  38. Two Designers Are Selling Their Brick Townhouse on a Flatbush Cul-de-sac Asking $1.7 million, the townhouse comes with new decks out back and a finished basement with its own spacious kitchen.
    By Jenny Xie
  39. Who Will Determine the Post-Amazon Future for Long Island City? Plans to reshape the waterfront are stuck in a rudderless moment.
    By Caroline Spivack
  40. 12 (Vetted) Tree Houses to Rent, From Silicon Valley to Woodstock We’ve combed through hundreds of listings and vacation-rental reviews to find the best tree houses for rent in the U.S.
    By Megan Barber
  41. Meet the Couple Who Bought the Brutalist Bachelor Pad You Saw on Twitter People went wild for the house online, but these people actually plan to live in it.
    By Emma Alpern
  42. Everything You Need to Know About NYC’s Housing Market The COVID-19 pandemic turned New York’s housing market on its head, creating sometimes conflicting trends that house hunters need to be familiar with.
    By Jeff Andrews
  43. Still Closer Than Maplewood: A Deeply Renovated Carriage House in Maspeth Its laundry room is so large it feels practically suburban.
    By Jenny Xie
  44. Renegotiating Your Rent (Or Finding a Better Deal) Tips from experts and tenants on how to upgrade or renegotiate the terms of your lease.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  45. Jazz Icon Dave Brubeck’s Connecticut House Feels Frozen in 1963 Three of his pianos and an organ are still there (but, sadly, they aren’t included in the asking price).
    By Megan Barber
  46. Why Is Ex–Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Buying Houses En Masse in Utah? Hsieh has purchased 71 bathrooms in Park City in less than three months.
    By Megan Barber
  47. The Best Apartments on the Upper West Side, According to an Upper West Sider “Over the years, I’ve marveled at 3 Riverside Drive, mooned over Milton Glaser’s studio, and dreamed of Aaron Shikler’s windows.”
    By Sadie Stein
  48. Artist Sterling Ruby’s Compound in the Valley Comes With Outdoor Tub, Kiln Room Ruby worked with a team of architects from SCI-Arc to design the Sunland spread.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  49. 6 Frank Lloyd Wright Homes for Sale Right Now Would you rather live in a Usonian gem, a Prairie School masterpiece, or a former schoolhouse?
    By Megan Barber
  50. The 10 Best Alternatives to Airbnb From a vacation rental company that focuses on families to one that wants to combat racism, here are ten alternatives for your next vacation.
    By Megan Barber
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