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The popular myth is that foreclosures can provoke ire in sellers and bad karma for buyers, but this is rarely the case.

When the owner of a home dies without a will or trust to allocate their estate, the property goes into probate.

“It is really different from anything else,” explains David Burcher, who bought a co-op apartment in Manhattan with his partner,...

You’ve heard it thousands of times on TV, the radio, and in junk mail—spurious ads delivered with forehead-vein-popping...

Whether you’re selling a hillside Neutra or a modest carpeted condo, home staging has become the norm in today’s uber-competitive...

Back in December, when news first emerged about the appointment of Shaun Donovan to the Obama administration as Secretary for...

Innovation is frequently the younger sibling to a problem, question, or challenge—a designer realizes something doesn't work, and...

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Homes on the range are getting bigger and more expensive by the minute, but a group of progressive architects in Jackson set out...

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There seems to be no end to the superlatives being used to describe cities in China: the buildings there are the biggest, the...

The alphabet is as easy as ABC, but for typographer Peter Bil’ak, the way language looks is a never-ending exploration.

Steeped in the past but firmly grounded in the present, the designs of Satyendra Pakhalé merge futuristic shapes with...

Asked to design a space for an art collector whose body and walls were already covered in decoration, architect Thom Faulders...

What do Barack Obama, Scarlett O'Hara, and Elvis have in common? Plates.

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It’s not unusual for New Yorkers to have problems with their neighbors; after all, many a co-op brawl has started over a little...

Brotherly love takes many forms; in the case of Rob and Eric Brill, it’s a shared passion for modernism.

The dark, primeval mountains and jagged ravines of New Zealand are free of rampaging Orcs, but Middle-earth, 2007, has another...

A bird flying over Houston, Texas, sees only a sprawling canopy of trees.

It's an understatement to say that we're living in a weird time, but when it comes to all things automotive, it's especially...

Were “EcoHat” to come up in passing,you would most likely think of something chunky, organic, and woolen–—perhaps a beanie with...

Long before the age of digital cameras there was the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera.

Somewhere between the fanciful beasts of Where the Wild Things Are and the hand-drawn charm of Marimekko, the characters in the...

I'm writing this a few hours away from the opening of Viennese architect Susanne Zottl's new exhibition at SCI-Arc, A Styrofoam...

It's not the most obvious task to take the green path when renovating, building, or choosing products to buy.

When it comes to material originality, this former tavern in Chicago’s trendy Bucktown neighborhood pulls out all the stops.

In San Francisco we’re frequently confronted with barren bedroom walls—since hanging anything that can fall in an earthquake is...

Matthew Moore has found himself in the curious position of being both an artist and a fourth-generation farmer, working and...

Whether spanning acres or encased in amorphous glass ecospheres, Paula Hayes's singular landscapes blur the boundary between art...