Looking for a change of scenery, a family left the Nevada desert for the cooler climes of the East Coast. These were the houses they considered.

This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Rye, N.Y., and a five-bedroom in Ocean City, N.J.

This week’s properties are in Midtown, Union Square and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Homeowners are afraid to leave behind great deals they locked in years ago, tethered to their property by “the rate-lock effect” or “golden handcuffs.”

Fewer buyers are coming from New Jersey and more are coming from California, according to a study that tracked sales during the first half of the year.

September Events Around Town!

And a couple early October events…

September 4th-7th: Denver Food and Wine Festival

“The Denver Food + Wine Festival is a multi-day extravaganza of food, wine, and spirits events presented by the Colorado Restaurant Foundation and Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. This annual event benefits the Colorado Restaurant Foundation, which supports worker education, training, and Colorado ProStart®, the state’s high school culinary and entrepreneurship program; mental health and wellness resources; and the Angel Relief Fund, which provides grants for hospitality employees experiencing hardship. Festival events feature the best of metro Denver’s restaurant community, the finest wine and spirits, educational seminars, and the culminating signature Grand Tasting.” Tickets & More Info!

The TV host is trading his 3,500-square-foot apartment, painstakingly assembled over nearly 21 years, for a penthouse in the same neighborhood.

A saltbox-style house in Ancram, a Tudor Revival cottage in Richmond and a four-bedroom home in St. Louis.

After being tied up in litigation for years, an assemblage of 13 properties on the cliffs west of Hoboken will see what the market has in store for them.

Getting there required buying something far worse than the typical fixer-upper: “It was like excavating in Pompeii.”

A gallery in Manhattan is to exhibit a selection of the abstract works of Iria Leino, a pioneer in New York in the ’60s and a mystery to many in the art world.

A 1931 Spanish-style house in Glendale, a floating home in Sausalito and a waterfront retreat in San Rafael.

City codes govern the removal of construction debris, including keeping waste contained.

The fashion designer Kenneth Cole’s 14-acre spread in Purchase, N.Y., was among several notable estates to hit the market in August.

A sunny three-bedroom house with a courtyard; a corner townhouse with a rooftop terrace; a house of character in a traditional village.

Some students arrive on campus expecting certain comforts. And they, or their parents, are willing to pay thousands to settle in.

Searching in Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant, a young couple endeavored to find a sunny place with a decent kitchen and not too many stairs.

A study compared the median listing price for a 500-square-foot apartment in Manhattan with the prices of homes in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

This week’s properties are in Greenwich Village, SoHo and Jackson Heights.

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Norwalk, Conn., and a six-bedroom in East Setauket, N.Y.