Residential Sales Around the Region

A comparison of recent residential sales by region and price range.

Square Feet

A Reluctance to Ride the Market

By ALEC APPELBAUM

Only about 100 of 790 buildings that are eligible for hourly prices have opted for the Con Ed service.

Square Feet

Airport Built, It’s Time to See if the Traffic Comes

By SUSAN STELLIN

Backers said Northwest Florida Beaches International would bring new businesses and residents to the Florida Panhandle; critics said it would also bring environmental problems.

The Renter Roadblock

By HILARY STOUT

Renters were a godsend when the market went into hibernation. But now that buyers are stirring, some owners wish their tenants would just go away.

The Hunt

Hunters Revel in the Sounds of Silence

By JOYCE COHEN

A bedroom door: That’s what Meghan Galewski and James Gonzalez wanted most.

Living In | Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn

The Little Town That Prices (Almost) Forgot

By JEFF VANDAM

Vinegar Hill is nudged into a corner of the waterfront that seems, at least in part, forgotten by time.

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Habitats

Home and Album

By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM

Little more than a week after buying an apartment Arash Yomtobian’s employer, Lehman Brothers, announced plans to declare bankruptcy.

Unions to Rally to Build Towers at Ground Zero

By CHARLES V. BAGLI

Building is stalled as the Port Authority and the developer, Larry A. Silverstein, debated how much government should invest in private development.

Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss

By DAVID STREITFELD

The Obama administration will offer homeowners $1,500 to sell for less than the mortgage balance.

Old-Fashioned Bulwark in a Tide of Foreclosures

By MICHAEL POWELL

A city agency and nonprofit groups build or rehabilitate moderate-income housing, then scrutinize buyers’ credit. And they avoid the national foreclosure crisis.

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Posting

New Housing in Midtown, for a Song

By ALISON GREGOR

On 43rd Street off Eighth Avenue is a new seven-story building that offers low-income housing and affordable rehearsal space, which are both in short supply.

Streetscapes | 53 East 79th Street

Where Fusty Is Fabulous

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY

Since 1937 the New York Society Library, which is the oldest cultural institution in New York, has been housed on East 79th Street.

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Mortgages

Help for First-Time Buyers

By BOB TEDESCHI

The State of New York Mortgage Agency, or Sonyma, is offering 30-year affordable-housing loans at 4.75 percent.

New Jersey

In New Jersey, the Telephone Challenge

By ANTOINETTE MARTIN

The phone, once a real estate agent’s primary — well, only — mode of communication with a client, is making a comeback of sorts in these lean times.

Long Island

Rolling Waves and Rolling Homes

By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER

Plots in a low-key mobile-home park of 199 trailer-condos interspersed with a few stick-built shacks in Montauk Shores are available, but the structures cannot be replaced by houses.

Square Feet | The 30-Minute Interview

Mark Jaccom

By VIVIAN MARINO

As of April 21, Mr. Jaccom, 54, will become the chief executive of the tristate hub of Colliers International, a full-service commercial real estate brokerage company.

Westchester

A Sense That Now Is the Time

By ELSA BRENNER

A look at the strategies of buyers venturing into the market shows Westchester as no longer being in free fall but still poised precariously.

On Location

In Madrid, the Apartment That Came With a House

By ANDREW FERREN

Felipe Rein Acebo-Gomez bought a 1,900-square-foot apartment that came with a three-story 1,300-square-foot casita.

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Residential Sales Around the Region

A comparison of recent residential sales by region and price range. Roll over an image to see listing details.

Big Deal

A Brush With a Beatle

By VIVIAN S. TOY

The new owner of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Nutopian Embassy, “a conceptual country” with no boundaries and “no laws other than cosmic,” has put it on the market.

Big Deal

Downsize Your Enthusiasm

By VIVIAN S. TOY

Susie Essman has decided to sell the two-bedroom two-bath apartment at the Straus Park Condominium that she uses in New York City.

Big Deal

Rural Retreat

By VIVIAN S. TOY

Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz, the founders of MALIN + GOETZ, a unisex skin care company, have decided to buy a farmhouse in the upper Hudson Valley.