Real Estate

The government can take private land and property for public use through eminent domain in the United States. This authority can benefit communities and be used to achieve economic growth and prosperity, but it can also harm minority groups. In the coming decades, we will need eminent domain more than ever to overcome the challenge

My parents were in their 20s when they bought their first home. It was the 1950s, Midcentury Modern, (my mother’s favorite furniture style) was just modern, and the house, a Dutch colonial in Brooklyn with four bedrooms, one full bath and two half baths, cost them about $25,000. That would be about $285,000 today, adjusted

As of early August, $12.5 million emerged as the sweet spot for record sales on Southern California’s tony Palos Verdes Peninsula. Two properties—a 6,000-square-foot estate in Palos Verdes Estates and a 10-acre hilltop residence in Rolling Hills Estates—sold for the top price in the last six months. The home was designed to showcase expansive coastal

The nation faces a critical shortage of not only affordable housing, but workforce housing. Nowhere is that shortfall more pronounced than in America’s top ski towns. Playgrounds of the ultra-rich, these hamlets have endured an ever-worsening dearth of housing for the people who work in the hotels and restaurants, as well as the folks who

The Domain Precinct of Melbourne, Australia, is at once chic, historic, urban and affluent. A sought-after part of South Yarra, an in-city suburb about 4 kilometers from the central business district, the tree-lined area is made up of “a large variety of heritage style and terrace homes that bring a wonderful character,” says Robert Fletcher