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WHO has the right to inherit a co-op apartment after the owner dies? The issue of residential succession rights is one that has bedeviled owners of rent-regulated apartments, tenants, New […]

LAST October, the raging winds and high tides of a sudden storm washed out homes in dozens of communities along the Atlantic coast. It was yet another reminder for shorefront […]

Rockefeller Center Properties Inc. announced yesterday that David Rockefeller would step down next month as its chairman and chief executive. The board voted to name Claude M. Ballard Jr., a […]

THREE years after sponsor defaults began undermining the financial health of hundreds of New York City's converted co-ops and condominiums, the pace of new defaults has slowed considerably and many […]

LENDERS say borrowers can help speed the approval process for a mortgage by making sure their applications are complete before submitting them. Most lenders will not start processing an application […]

WHEN Jill and Robert Miller signed a contract for a two-bedroom co-op on the East Side of Manhattan just before Thanksgiving they thought they would be in their new home […]

TOWN-HOUSE sales in Greenwich Village, the Upper East Side and other prime Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods have rebounded after a three-year downward drift. In recent reports, brokerage companies said that […]

BUYING a town house remains an alluring alternative to apartment living for many New Yorkers, but owners quickly learn that a house is a quite different kind of home. One […]

LAST winter, Lisa and David Osterman toured dozens of homes in and around Princeton, N.J., in search of one to buy. But by spring they threw in the towel and […]

IN 1980, after the transformation of 100 Hudson Street from an office building into a co-op apartment house, the 46 shareholders who bought into the building got a tax break […]

WHEN Dorcas T. Helfant took her first job selling homes in a small real estate office in Portsmouth, Va., in the mid-60's, she was the only person on the sales […]

Transferring Rent Rights Question: My rent-stabilized studio apartment has seven months left on the lease. There is a vacant one-bedroom apartment in the building with a rent lower than mine. […]

WHEN residents at 870 U.N. Plaza get a yen for stir-fried Chinese food, they have to send out for it. Wok cooking is banned in the co-op at East 48th […]

FLORENCE LANDON, a retired secretary, cherishes the home in Great Neck, L.I., she has owned since the 50's. But now Mrs. Landon, who lives mostly on a pension, finds the […]

AFTER two years of living like academic nomads, the students and teachers of Nightingale-Bamford, a private girls' school on Manhattan's Upper East Side, are home again. When the 1991-92 school […]

AN unwelcome reprise of summer's steamy weather sent the fans whirling again last week throughout Stuyvesant Town, the plain red-brick, moderate-income complex on the east side of Manhattan where old […]

THREE years after real estate market started skidding downhill, mortgage lenders throughout the metropolitan region are struggling to rid themselves of homes and apartments taken back from owners, builders and […]

FOR decades, a grubby industrial neighborhood west of City Hall and wedged between the financial district and Canal Street went virtually unnoticed. But by the late 70's, urban pioneers -- […]

IN a city where space is the most precious commodity, the studio apartment is accepted as full-fledged housing by many New Yorkers for whom fold-away furniture and closet-sized kitchens are […]

Backed into a corner by a huge surplus and slow sales, builders, bankers, sponsors and other holders of unsold co-op and condominium apartments in Manhattan reluctantly embraced auctions a few […]

AT the end of 1988, when Robert and Christine Scuderi decided to marry, they talked, as newly engaged couples often do, about buying a home some day. Back then, the […]

LIKE a corporate pied piper leading the way to the land of affordable housing, United Parcel Service announced last month that it was pulling up stakes in Greenwich, Conn., where […]

IN its most substantive effort in a decade to protect the historic and architectural treasures of Harlem, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has proposed 25 structures in upper Manhattan for landmark […]

UNEASY over declining home prices and surging foreclosures, many mortgage lenders are casting a more conservative eye on the deals buyers make with sellers and are cutting the amounts of […]

February is not only the month for sweethearts but also the time when couples who will marry in the spring or early summer start planning their weddings. Bride's Magazine, in […]

WHEN Timothy Protzman left his job at a Hartford radio station three years ago, he saw no financial danger in the month-long break before the start of his next position, […]

EVIDENCE is mounting that in many parts of New York City, landmark and historic-district designation is acting as a force for neglect rather than for the encouragement of improvement and […]

Budget for Homebuyer Question: My son-in-law and I plan to buy a two-family house. What is the most we can afford to pay if I have a retirement income of […]

Cold weather poses a hazard to household plumbing, which is even more vulnerable if the heating system fails. So if you plan to leave a house unoccupied this winter, there […]

THE weakened co-op market throughout the city is putting the feet of many board members to the fire as more shareholders who need to move seek permission to take tenants […]

SEVENTY-FIVE years after an elegant epoch in domestic architecture created some of New York's grandest houses on the blocks just east of Fifth Avenue, a new generation of affluent owners […]

THE deal to bring Barneys, the specialty store, to an office building at 60th Street and Madison Avenue owned by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company will convert the building into […]

IN the New York region's troubled home market, the rental alternative is becoming an increasingly attractive temporary haven for many would-be sellers and buyers. Among them are Samuel and Giedra […]

Light is an essential element of safety at home. You don't have to redecorate to improve lighting, but anytime changes are made, it's a good idea to think about how […]

LEAD: The long-delayed effort to develop Sterling Forest - 18,000 acres of woods, wetlands, streams and lakes that sprawl across southern Orange County 50 miles northwest of Manhattan - is […]

LEAD: David and Toni small have just spent $50,000 to improve their home in Lake Hopatcong, N.J. The updated kitchen has new oak cabinets, a new floor of Mexican tiles, […]

LEAD: Seventy percent of New York City residents are renters rather than owners of their homes, and that makes them distinctly different from residents of other American cities, where home […]

LEAD: Free-market apartments - those in which landlords and tenants set the rents and services through private negotiations - are growing in number in New York City. As a result, […]

LEAD: Both New Jersey and Connecticut have local agencies that try to offer protections to tenants but neither state has a system as broad in its scope as New York's. […]

LEAD: On weekday mornings, 3-year-old Carolyn Keen, sometimes with a cherished toy in tow, heads with her father, Robert, for the Heller Industrial Park in Edison, N.J., where he is […]

LEAD: Not so long ago, the lobbies of even the most architecturally distinctive office buildings were little more than sterile spaces connecting the front door to the elevators. But if […]

LEAD: After years of sitting on the sidelines because of soaring housing costs and high interest rates, first-time home buyers in the New York region are finally getting a break. […]

LEAD: In big cities many drivers justify the expense of parking in lots or garages by pointing to the security they can provide. Yet it is not uncommon for owners […]

LEAD: Aftershocks from the collapse of the Silverado Savings and Loan Association in Denver are shaking a Manhattan cooperative near Lincoln Center, where residents have become the reluctant partners of […]

LEAD: IN the vernacular of office building renovation, a face lift is usually a cosmetic updating of a tired-looking property through methods ranging from basic cleaning and repairs to elaborate […]

LEAD: WHEN Beth and Timothy Dennis went house hunting on Long Island three years ago, about a year after their marriage, they thought their biggest challenge would be scraping together [...]

LEAD: DURING the boom years of the 80's the United States was a land of opportunity for real estate developers and investors the world over. Now, with an ambitious plan [...]

LEAD: AFTER a five-year struggle, the owners of the Ansonia Hotel, one of the city's architectural landmarks, have put forth a plan to convert the building into a condominium residence. […]

LEAD: IN the two long blocks of East 86th Street between Lexington and Second Avenues, 11 storefronts stand empty. The windows of Tempo, a small discount jewelry and gift store […]

LEAD: Income-tax time, when all your records are at hand, is a convenient time to gather receipts and other papers documenting home or apartment renovations and major appliance purchases. Warranties […]