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Amy Tan Takes a Novel Approach to Bird-Watching: ‘Be the Bird’
In her most recent book, “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” the best-selling author revels in a newfound preoccupation with birds — and drawing.
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After She Lost Her Home in a Fire, an Opportunity Rose From the Ashes
The fire-resistant house she built in Napa, Calif., with the insurance money was “so different — and I like different.”
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$1.5 Million Homes in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
A 1735 stone house on 32 acres in Saugerties, a Queen Anne Revival home in Stockbridge and an early 18th-century farmhouse with a guest cottage in Collegeville.
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Making an Offer: When Is It Lowballing, and When Is It Just a Fair Price?
Prospective buyers should limit any offer to the value of a property as they see it.
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$3 Million Homes in California
A midcentury-modern house in Los Angeles, a three-bedroom condominium in San Francisco and a hillside home in San Rafael.
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CreditCristian Cruzio, Cruzio Studios What You GetThe Simplest (and Cheapest) Way to Decorate With Flowers
It starts in your own backyard (or the tiny container garden on your balcony): “You can put a single bloom in a flower vase, and that is often enough.”
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CreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times How To: Arrange FlowersA mews apartment, a two-bedroom in a semidetached Victorian villa, and a three-bedroom in a rowhouse with a private backyard.
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CreditSavills What you GetBig Ticket: N.Y.’s Top Sales and Listings in June
Take a look at some of the most high-profile real estate listings and sales in June in New York City.
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CreditCourtesy: Evan Joseph for Extell Big TicketFrom an R.V. to a Condo Near Washington: Which Was Better for Their Growing Family?
After spending two years on the road and having a baby, a young couple decided to put down roots just south of the nation’s capital. Here’s what they found.
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Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn
This week’s properties are in Sutton Place, Gramercy Park and Flatbush.
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This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Weston, Conn., and a five-bedroom in Stony Brook, N.Y.
By Claudia Gryvatz Copquin and
CreditDot Record Media On the MarketHow Do You Restore a Chestnut Forest or an Apple Orchard? Very Slowly.
This botanic garden is determined to bring back the American chestnut tree and heirloom apples that taste like those grown 500 years ago. It won’t be easy.
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CreditNew England Botanic Garden/Megan Stouffer IN THE GARDEN$550,000 Homes in Maine, the District of Columbia and Kentucky
A two-bedroom cottage in Castine, a one-bedroom apartment in a Beaux-Arts building in Washington and a circa-1900 house in Louisville.
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CreditKrystal Brouty/Above ME Aerial Imagery What You GetCowboy Hats and Koi Fish Photos? There’s a Reason.
Some interior designers decorate their adult apartments to be reminded of the hometowns where they grew up.
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More in Ask Real Estate ›When Your Neighbor Renovates, How Do You Protect Your Home?
A law exists to balance the interests of people who renovate their properties with the interests of their neighbors.
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CreditNadia Pillon Co-op Assessments: Do You Have to Pay What They Say?
Courts allow co-op boards significant power over building finances, including assessments — if the fees are in ‘good faith.’
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CreditNadia Pillon I Hired an Agent to Sell My Home. Do I Have to Pay the Buyer’s Broker Now?
The legal settlements roiling the real estate industry are changing the way commissions get paid. But the change could come slowly.
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CreditNadia Pillon My Neighbor Has a Very Annoying Emotional Support Dog. What Can I Do?
As long as this dog isn’t biting people, it’s probably not going anywhere. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to live with the noise.
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CreditNadia Pillon I Can’t Use My Co-op’s Keypad Entry on the Sabbath. Am I Entitled to a Side Door Key?
Because of your religious beliefs, your co-op could face legal liability if it fails to accommodate your request.
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More in Renters ›A New World Order for Renters? Well, It Worked for This Guy.
During the pandemic, a man realized he was free to work remotely in any city he wanted, in the U.S. and abroad. After moving a dozen times, he had a second epiphany.
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CreditJames Estrin/The New York Times Looking for Friends? How About 23 Housemates?
An engineer who moved from London to New York was planning to live alone, but ended up doing just the opposite — and loving it.
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CreditJames Estrin/The New York Times The Make-or-Break Question for a New Roommate: Do You Drink?
A Brooklyn woman who has been sober for three years needed a roommate. But alcohol would not be allowed in the apartment. Some people thought that was a joke.
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CreditJames Estrin/The New York Times He Wanted to Go Back Home to the Hamptons. Could He Afford It?
A man who struggled to find housing in East Hampton has turned his experience into a podcast, and many of his guests are ‘navigating the waters of trying to make a living here.’
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CreditLindsay Morris for The New York Times An Independent Life of Flowers and Bible Verses in the Bronx
A woman in a HUD-subsidized apartment in a building for older New Yorkers bristles at the notion that she would stay home and “watch these four walls.”
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Did You Sell Your Home to Pay for Your Child’s College? We Want to Hear From You.
With the cost of college through the roof, some parents have sold their homes or taken out exorbitant loans to pay for their child’s degree. Share your story with us.
By Linda Federico-Ó Murchú and Rukmini Callimachi
CalculatorApartments Are Growing in Size. Here’s Where They’re Largest.
A recent study found that the size of the average new rental apartment increased by almost 30 square feet last year.
By Matt Yan
What You Get$5 Million Homes in California
A stone villa in Calistoga, a Spanish-style retreat in Santa Barbara and a four-bedroom house with a guest cottage in Los Angeles.
By Angela Serratore
What you Get$1.3 Million Homes in Belgium
A four-bedroom house with a thatched roof, a turn-of-the-century rowhouse and a three-bedroom duplex in a converted grain distillery.
By Marcelle Sussman Fischler
How Fast Food Is Getting Faster
Retailers like Chick-fil-A are opening smaller, takeout-focused outposts with little or no seating to complement their traditional locations.
By Celia Young
Living smallThree People in a One-Bedroom Apartment? They Found a Clever Solution.
Co-op rules meant they couldn’t add a second bedroom, so they came up with an elegant workaround.
By Julie Lasky
The HuntPandemic-Era Newlyweds Consider an Age-Old Question: To Buy or Not to Buy?
With their lease on a Lower East Side apartment expiring, two software engineers wondered if buying made more sense than renting, now that the housing market wasn’t quite so frenzied. Here’s what they found.
By Heather Senison
CalculatorHow Long Does It Take to Save Up for a Down Payment?
Facing high home prices and mortgage interest rates, many people need huge down payments to afford a mortgage.
By Matt Yan
On the MarketHomes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn
This week’s properties are in NoMad, the East Village and Park Slope.
By Heather Senison
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Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey
This week’s properties are waterfront homes in Massapequa, N.Y., and Margate, N.J.
By Jill P. Capuzzo and Claudia Gryvatz Copquin
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