Diana Fasano

At a busy intersection, the 58-year-old Cross Country Shopping Center withstood the recent recession, but is now trying to lure more upscale businesses and customers.

A lack of inventory is largely responsible for a decline in incentives to buy into new developments in New York.

Eric Zimmerman and Nathalie Pozzi live in a colorful apartment that reflects her architectural background and his career as a game designer.

In this part of Manhattan, once-commercial buildings are being transformed as residential real estate enjoys a back-to-the-future moment.

Marana Aerospace Solutions in Arizona is one of a number of maintenance and repair operations where retired airliners are sent to be refurbished or broken up for scrap.

Swire Properties has unveiled Frank Gehry’s new Opus Hong Kong — a 12-story apartment complex that is his first major project in Asia.

Colin Beavan, known for his No Impact Man project, is the Green Party candidate for a House seat in Brooklyn.

The impending demolition of a Richard Neutra home spurred the city to enact its first preservation rules earlier this year.

Bruce David Martin wanted to return to Greenwich Village, but nothing he saw compared to his old apartment, which was on the market.

A Chelsea loft, an Upper East Side co-op and a Bay Ridge 2-bedroom.

A five-bedroom colonial in Pennington, N.J., and a six-bedroom colonial in Irvington, N.Y.

A penthouse owned by Oprah Winfrey was the biggest sale of the week in New York City.

Mr. Ginsburg, 46, is a co-chairman of GDC Properties, which specializes in retail and residential development.

The neighborhood under the Manhattan Bridge is seeing a rush of development, with hundreds of rental and condo units in the pipeline.

In the early years of Central Park, the dirt path around the reservoir — now commonly called the “runners’ track” — was mostly the domain of walkers — and very few of them, at that.

Experts suggest that would-be borrowers begin the process by reading the fine print of each site they choose to work with.

Interactive virtual staging allows visitor to use “style designer” tools to “paint” and “decorate” a property that is actually empty.

The Westchester affiliate of Habitat for Humanity is helping veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan to become homeowners.

These days, developers of age-restricted housing are trying to adjust to the changing realities of their pool of buyers.

Tourists flock to my building; will the rent be raised; co-op boards and trusts.

By betting big on property in a down market, and with the help of a donor network, the group is creating entire Habitat neighborhoods.

Deutsche Bank will pay the government $200 million to settle accusations that it misled the Department of Housing and Urban Development about the quality of mortgages that later defaulted.

Our apartment has an old, awkward kitchen, but we don’t have the budget to renovate before selling. Should we get plans drawn up, so buyers can see what’s possible?

The rules are designed to tackle origination fees, which vary widely depending on the amount of a loan.

In Los Angeles, an octogenarian finally gets the modern home of her dreams.

A house in Hawaii, a contemporary in Connecticut and a midcentury modern in Los Angeles.

The housing market is robust in Malmo as Sweden was left largely unscathed by global financial troubles.

A Chelsea loft, an Upper East Side co-op and a Bay Ridge 2-bedroom.

A five-bedroom colonial in Pennington, N.J., and a six-bedroom colonial in Irvington, N.Y.

Properties in Hawaii, Connecticut and Los Angeles.

Compare the cost of renting and buying equivalent homes.

It may be that the house of the future is an apartment in a century-old tenement building on Sullivan Street.

This year’s show house is set in a modern Manhattan high-rise with sweeping views.

If you own any of these items, you may be.

In San Francisco, a couple domesticates a former warehouse.

A bench is the go-anywhere, do-anything of furniture.

Are there inexpensive ways to make a bathroom show better, without renovating it?

Across the country, spring tours give visitors a chance to inspect houses and visit interesting gardens.

If the actor’s new memoir reads as if he’s sitting around telling stories, it’s because it was written that way.