Real Estate
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Stuck in a Starter Home
If buying a home is an inexorable part of the American dream, so is the next step: eventually selling that…
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Security Deposits: Your Landlord May Owe You More Than You Think
Landlords are required to put security deposits in interest-bearing bank accounts. How much of that interest goes to you?
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She Made an Offer on a Condo. Then the Seller Learned She Was Black.
A Black woman claims a white homeowner tried to pull out of a sale because of her race.
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What Is Fair Housing?
There are laws to protect people from discrimination in buying, renting and living in their homes.
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Look Closer: Searching for New York’s Hidden Art
Standing in front of the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd Street, a person can easily experience a multi-sensory overload…
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‘You Can Be a Little Different in Queens’: Why This Home Is Not Like the Others
Instead of a conventional renovation, one New Yorker took a progressive approach. Now he pays almost nothing for energy, and…
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$2 Million Homes in Buenos Aires
A three-bedroom apartment in a modern tower, a duplex with a rooftop soccer pitch, and an 1898 mansion configured as…
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More N.Y.C. Rentals Are Available. But Can You Afford One?
Inventory has grown over the past year, though prices continue to rise as well — just not as fast.
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Treat Your Palate and Feast Your Eyes on These Perennials
The author of “The Heirloom Gardener” offers tips for growing a garden of lush perennials you can put in a…
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$4 Million Homes in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
A 1766 Dutch farmhouse in Claverack, a two-bedroom condominium in a loft building in Boston and a 1912 Colonial Revival…