‘Selling the Hamptons’: Real Estate Drama on Long Island
On the reality TV show, a motley crew of camera-ready real estate agents navigates the cutthroat market of multimillion dollar houses.
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An East Hampton Home Tailor-Made for the Owner of Il Buco
When Donna Lennard bought the house, ‘it was an adorable cottage’ surrounded by water. Now it’s even better.
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Have a Tiny Outdoor Space and a Budget to Match? Follow These Rules.
Here’s how to make the most of an outdoor space in the city — even if it’s small, awkwardly shaped or hemmed in by other buildings.
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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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Take a Walk Through the Hamptons With a Photographer and Her iPhone
Susan Kaufman, whose editing career included stints at Condé Nast and People, turned her lifelong love of the Long Island towns into a coffee-table book.
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CreditSusan Kaufman $1.5 Million Homes in California
A Spanish-style house in Los Angeles, a Craftsman bungalow with a guest apartment in Sacramento and a two-bedroom home with a guesthouse in San Diego.
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CreditMichael Wilkerson, 360 Listing What You GetHe Bought a 1953 Trailer on Impulse. But What to Do With It?
The renovation that followed turned his backyard into an upscale version of a campground — complete with a marble shower in the trees.
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The annual Don’t Move, Improve! Awards showcase exceptional innovation and creativity in home improvements across London.
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The building, at 496 Broome Street, was the first home in New York City that the couple owned and is now listed by Sean Ono Lennon and his mother for $5.5 million.
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A New Yorker Took Her $400,000 Budget Up to the Hudson Valley. Here’s What She Found.
After renting for years in Brooklyn and Harlem, Rachel Watts decided to swap shared city apartments for a house of her own in the Beacon area. But how much house could she afford?
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CreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times The HuntTwo renovated apartments in the Gothic Quarter, and a one-bedroom unit in a historic building in the Dreta de l’Eixample.
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CreditMax Ricart What you GetMy Co-op Neighbor Never Pays His Maintenance on Time. Can We Make Him?
State law currently allows co-ops to charge up to 8 percent of the monthly cost as a late fee. But there are exceptions.
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After a slight dip, the creation of new adaptive reuse units rose in 2023.
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Credit CalculatorHe Thought He Had Bought a Great Apartment. The Ceiling Held a Secret.
A home buyer quickly found out his co-op shared something in common with Carnegie Hall, Grand Central Terminal and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.
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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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Courts allow co-op boards significant power over building finances, including assessments — if the fees are in ‘good faith.’
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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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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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Is your goal to maximize value by attracting many potential buyers, or to have a quicker sale that minimizes disruption in your life?
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With grand estates and rolling meadows, this Somerset County borough has long attracted the wealthy. But now it’s courting younger, less affluent buyers.
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CreditJennifer Pottheiser for The New York Times Ringwood, N.J.: A Rural Lifestyle 40 Miles From New York City
Residents say this northern Passaic County borough resembles the Catskills: “You’re in the country, and yet you’re not far from the city.”
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The neighborhood, known as New York’s first suburb, is a place where ‘people want to stay forever.’
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The Burlington County community often surprises new residents with its woodsy vibe: “It’s not at all what we thought of when we thought of New Jersey.”
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What’s It Like Living Near Elevated Trains? Share Your Photos and Videos.
Here’s how to share shots and footage with The New York Times for a story featuring those who live near overhead trains in New York City.
By Anna Kodé
IN THE GARDENTo See the Past and Predict the Future, Try ‘Reading’ a Landscape
How well do you know your own backyard? Noah Charney thinks you should take another look.
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What You Get$1.6 Million Homes in North Carolina, Florida and Rhode Island
An 1880 Queen Anne Revival home in Durham, a two-bedroom condominium in Palm Beach and a modern farmhouse with a detached studio in Barrington.
By Angela Serratore
On the MarketHomes for Sale in New York and Connecticut
This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Port Washington, N.Y., and a two-bedroom in Guilford, Conn.
By Claudia Gryvatz Copquin and Alicia Napierkowski
On the MarketHomes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn
This week’s properties are in Carnegie Hill, NoHo and Ocean Hill.
By Heather Senison
In the GardenButterflies Know: These Native Plants Aren’t Weeds
Pollinators recognize a good thing when they see it — and so do gardeners in search of organic pest control. As one put it, “My prairie is my pesticide.”
By Margaret Roach
What You Get$450,000 Homes in Kentucky, New Jersey and New York
A two-bedroom bungalow in Lexington, a 1925 home in Blairstown and a Colonial Revival house in Buffalo.
By Angela Serratore
At-Home IV Drips Are the Latest Luxury Building Amenity
High-end condos and rentals now offer the medically dubious therapy as a regular wellness practice, not just a vacation splurge.
By Ronda Kaysen
What You Get$2.2 Million Homes in California
A shingled bungalow with a guesthouse and a geodesic dome in Topanga, a Victorian-era retreat in Napa and a midcentury-modern home in Berkeley.
By Angela Serratore
rentersAn 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.”
By Samantha Maldonado
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