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.

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.’

The 1948 film starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy celebrated leaving city life and spreading out in suburbia. Even then, it was a questionable idea.

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Locust Valley, N.Y., and a four-bedroom in Wilton, Conn.

This week’s properties are on the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side and in South Park Slope.

As housing stock ages in the coming years, homeowners could face challenges financing needed renovations.

For one couple, renting near a college campus in Bloomington, Ind., lost its luster after the children moved out. Would $300,000 be enough for a new house?

Relatively simple measures like thermostat control, composting and switching to electric appliances can make a big difference.

Or just start by planting a few pawpaw or persimmon trees. Chances are, you’ll want more.

An 1820 townhouse in Portsmouth, a 1940 home in Oklahoma City and a Colonial Revival house in Westbrook.

For two designers living in Brooklyn, meeting and marrying felt like destiny. The renovation of the grand apartment in France followed naturally.

At Maison Lune, in Los Angeles, you may forget you’re in a home — until you hear the sound of the clothes dryer.

A 1924 Spanish-style home in Los Angeles, a three-bedroom condominium in an Edwardian house in San Francisco and a hillside retreat in Monrovia.