My Affordable Real Estate

In a big bet on China’s post-Olympics economy, Japanese developer Minoru Mori opened the country’s tallest skyscraper in a challenging environment.

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Screened from all but the envious eyes of aerial neighbors, the backyard is the most counterintuitive of New York spaces.

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Norwood, which suffered neglect in the 1980s and ’90s, is once again sprucing itself up. Its roads, with steep grades and closely packed wood-frame houses, almost recall San Francisco’s.

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A free Web site enables anyone — including prospective buyers and sellers, brokers and neighbors — to check a location for health hazards lurking underground.

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Credit union mortgages are not typically marketed through brokers, yet they have grown increasingly attractive in recent months.

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Now, at the most unlikely of times, a neighborhood organization in Hartford is taking advantage of the current spike in foreclosures to buy up deteriorating bank-owned properties.

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The diamond district seems so firmly a part of Manhattan that it is hard to imagine any other destination for shoppers seeking high-priced gems, but in fact there once was one.

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Rose Cirigliano has turned her 320-square-foot efficiency apartment into a survivors’ camp where every item has a reason for being, or else.

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When Nick Kravitz and his wife, Hongyu Adella Lin-Kravitz, decided they wanted to move to a bigger home, they took months shopping for homes and neighborhoods.

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Eight stories above Broadway and 97th Street, construction is near completion on three little houses that sit atop a turn-of-the-century apartment building.

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