Real Estate
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What Is a Flip Tax, and Who Has to Pay It?
Flip taxes, also known as a transfer fees, help co-op buildings raise money for repairs and improvements, and they must…
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The Spectacular Transformation of a Showman’s Mansion
The James A. Bailey residence at St. Nicholas Place and 150th Street in Harlem, built in 1888 for the less…
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$1.5 Million Homes in Prague
A three-bedroom loft in an revamped factory, a two-bedroom apartment in a 16th-century house, and a detached villa in a…
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How One Couple Turned Their Backyard Into an Arboretum
Their passion for fruit you’ve never heard of started small. Now they have a botanical garden that’s open to the…
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$400,000 Homes in New York, Mississippi and Maryland
An 1860 rowhouse in Catskill, a Queen Anne Revival home in Holly Springs and a 19th-century farmhouse in Westminster.
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Is It Storage or Art? If It’s Hard to Tell, You’re Doing It Right.
The best open storage adds personality to a room. Here’s how it’s done.
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Elite Real Estate Broker and His Twin Face Sexual Assault Suits
A co-founder of a brokerage that caters to the ultrawealthy and his twin brother face allegations that they sexually assaulted…
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Looking for Friends? How About 23 Housemates?
An engineer who moved from London to New York was planning to live alone, but ended up doing just the…
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$1.4 Million Homes in California
A 1949 cottage in Lake Arrowhead, a Spanish-style home in Los Angeles and a Craftsman house in Berkeley.
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What is a ‘Zombie Mortgage’?
Has your mortgage come back from the dead? It probably wasn’t really gone, it was likely just hiding.