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International Real Estate
For Sale in Mexico
For Sale in Mexico
Kate Glicksberg for The New York Times
A covered outdoor living area off of the sunken living room has a grill and bar; a swimming pool and spa are adjacent.

A four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath house with a garden in the Corpus Christi neighborhood of Cozumel.

Property Values
What You Get for ... $600,000

A four-bedroom home on Great Diamond Island in Maine, a four-bedroom compound on the eastern coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and a cottage two blocks from the beach in Encinitas, Calif.

In Egypt, Living on a Farm

After her husband died and her children moved away, Maryanne Stroud Gabbani built a home on a 2.5-acre lot in a village in the Old Nile Valley.

The Come-Hither Lobby

In a difficult market, developers are turning to ambitious art and design plans to entice buyers and, hopefully, make a sale.

Striking Declines Seen in Manhattan Real Estate Market

A series of market reports on the fourth quarter of 2008 showed an abrupt decline in transactions, tottering prices and buyers who are still looking but unwilling to sign a contract.

New York Housing Plan Is Delayed

Tight financing has pushed back an initiative to create or preserve 165,000 residential units.

As Vacant Office Space Grows, So Does Lenders’ Crisis

Rising vacancy rates across the country could make it hard for building owners to pay their mortgages.

Mortgages
An Erratic Year for Mortgage Rates

When it comes to mortgage rates, 2008 may be remembered as the year the market went haywire.

Living In | Suffern, N.Y.
When the Town Line Is the State Line

Suffern, a two-square-mile village in the town of Ramapo along the New Jersey border, has a coziness reminiscent of the village from an earlier era.

Streetscapes | 110 West 40th Street
Midtown High-Rise, Flight Plans Included

Edward W. Browning planned a runway on the roof of the 1913 World’s Tower Building at 110 West 40th Street for airplanes.

The Hunt
Apartment Hunters Chart New Territory

Mattias Johansson and his girlfriend, Diane Tider, decided to buy in Jersey City after one day of apartment hunting.

Posting
A Cleaner Way to Keep the City Running

A new building with affordable rents in the Bronx will be powered partly by 10 wind turbines, which should cut its utility bills for common areas in half.

In the Region
All the Home’s a Stage

A home manager is essentially a live-in stager, as well as a caretaker and cleaner extraordinaire who helps sell a vacant property.

Multimedia
A Garden Home on Cozumel

A house that was built 11 years ago and is a block from the ocean.

Properties for $600,000

Houses in Portland, Me., Pahoa, Hawaii and a cottage in Encinitas, Calif.

Habitats | Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
After All Those Brownstones, a Blank Canvas

Serine Hastings, who lived in prewar apartments her first three decades in New York, decided her next home should be in new construction.

TOOLS AND RESOURCES

Watch video tours of luxury homes for sale in the New York metropolitan area.

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From the Ground Up
From the Ground Up

In a new blog, Lou Ureneck writes about building a cabin and offers advice, ideas and links for those who would like to build their own (or at least dream of doing it).

Inside Real Estate

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On the Market in New York City
On the Market in New York City
Living in Suffern, N.Y.
Living in Suffern, N.Y.
On the Market in the Region
On the Market in the Region
Big Deal
Someone Still Has Money

City records show that deals are still being done, but often far below the asking price, and bankers and hedge-fund types, who once drove prices ever higher, are a fleeting presence.

Big Deal
Signs of a Silver Lining

Nimble buyers have begun to take advantage of the faltering real estate market.

Ventures
Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals

The credit crisis and recession crushed deal making in office buildings in 2008.

Catskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?

Second-home prices in the Catskills have dropped — some by a third or more — and still buyers are scarce.

Havens | Elephant Butte, N.M.
Blue Skies, a Small Town and a Big Lake

Second-home owners who crave the outdoor life are attracted to the temperate climate, semirural location and lakeside living in this southern New Mexico town.

Breaking Ground
Four Seasons Resort Vail & Green Homes at the Greenbrier

A resort and residential development in ski country and a new neighborhood at a historic resort.

High & Low | Canmore, Alberta
Still Glowing From the Olympic Flame

Canmore, in the Bow Valley of Alberta, nestles between Kananaskis Country to the east, which includes nearly a dozen provincial parks and as many ecological reserves, and Banff National Park.

Your Second Home | Winter on the Shore
Experiencing a Cold Wave

If you like peace and quiet, Provincetown, the Jersey Shore and Montauk are wonderful in winter.

Multimedia
Video VIDEO: Project Apartment: A Family of Friends

"Project Runway" star Daniel Vosovic and four longtime friends live in a duplex on New York City's Lower East Side. Out of their friendship has come a "family."

Audio Slide Show AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: Do-It-Yourself Selling

Hal Ruzal, 54, is selling his own meatpacking district apartment without the help of a real estate broker.

Audio Slide Show AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: A Modern Brownstone

Deborah Marland and David Backus’s remodeled house in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which Ms. Marland has lived in since the early 1970s, feels more like a loft than a brownstone.

Multimedia
A Garden Home on Cozumel

A house that was built 11 years ago and is a block from the ocean.

Properties for $600,000

Houses in Portland, Me., Pahoa, Hawaii and a cottage in Encinitas, Calif.

COLUMNS

Manhattan Market Data

Data provided by Miller Samuel, Inc. Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants
2nd Quarter, 2008 Details by Zip:

Highest $/Sq. Ft.: 10023 — Upper West Side/Lincoln Square Area

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