Finances matter, of course, but so do your future plans, lifestyle, location and other factors. Answer a few questions to learn what may be best for you.

Designers Christine and John Gachot offer a step-by-step guide to decorating an outdoor space.

This week’s properties are in Hell’s Kitchen, the financial district and Astoria.

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom house in Readington, N.J., and a five-bedroom in Katonah, N.Y.

Two first-time buyers set their sights on Morningside Heights and South Harlem, aiming for a two-bedroom or large one-bedroom in an elevator building.

Rents are still up over last year in just over half of the 100 largest U.S. cities.

Rents are still up over last year in just over half of the 100 largest U.S. cities.

Two first-time buyers set their sights on Morningside Heights and South Harlem, aiming for a two-bedroom or large one-bedroom in an elevator building.

This Middlesex County community was once a place “where middle-class people built cottages.” Now cash buyers are winning bidding wars here.

Innisfree, in Millbrook, N.Y., “doesn’t look like other gardens.” That’s by design.

This Middlesex County community was once a place ‘where middle-class people built cottages.’ Now cash buyers are winning bidding wars.

A saltbox house with an attached 1830 barn in Hartland, a two-bedroom condominium in a 1914 building in Brooklyn and a Tudor Revival house in Akron.

This Middlesex County community was once a place “where middle-class people built cottages.” Now cash buyers are winning bidding wars here.

When he’s not performing in “Here Lies Love,” this Broadway star finds refuge in the Hamptons.

When he’s not performing in “Here Lies Love,” a musical about the Philippines’s infamous first couple, this Broadway star finds refuge outside the city.

A couple who mainly thought of the city as a vacation spot learned the hard way that finding an apartment there was anything but boring.

A shingled home in Altadena, a golf-course retreat in Costa Mesa and a ‘Tree House’ in San Luis Obispo.

Start with the house rules, then consider getting a lawyer involved.

Miranda Haymon, a theater director and writer, was able to make (and save) money during the pandemic. How far would it go in Brooklyn in late 2022?

A New Jersey woman now lives alone part of the year on a remote island in Maine that Stephen King called ‘a novel here, just waiting to be written.’