Kari Musil and her daughter, Angela Martin, spent a solid decade browsing home listings around Duluth, Minn., sometimes for hours on end. It was one way to pass…
Read more A Mother and Daughter Planned Their Lives Together in Minnesota. What Would $300,000 Buy?It’s hard enough for two people to make a life-altering decision about buying a home. Mix in a third, and you’ve got a recipe for anarchy. But Lillian…
Read more Three Women Wanted to Start a Family in the Bay Area. Could They Find a House to Do It In?When Kare and Scott Beckett met seven years ago in a Stop & Shop in Dorchester, Mass., both knew they’d found something special. Ms. Beckett, a Boston native…
Read more In Atlanta, a Young Family Wanted the Perfect Home to Grow IntoWhen Maria Walker moved to New York from Ecuador in 1962, she had never allowed herself to dream that she could own a home in the United States.…
Read more Three Generations of Women Under One Roof in WestchesterFor 25 years, Laura Nupponen and Kevin Kendall lived the Manhattan real estate dream: The couple, who met in the ’90s as undergrads at Carnegie Mellon University in…
Read more They Wanted to Upsize for Their Kids, but Could They Do It on the Upper West Side?Five years ago, Bibek and Malati Rai found themselves at the same Sakela festival in Jackson Heights, Queens. Ms. Rai performed a traditional dance at the event, a…
Read more They Wanted a Two-Bedroom in Queens, With Room to Grow, for Less Than $400,000Fifteen years ago, Julia Kaplan left New Jersey to escape its notoriously high property taxes and settled in the small city of Pittsfield, Mass., in the Berkshire Mountains.…
Read more She Wanted a Quiet House in the Berkshires for About $800,000Rick and Connie Harlow both grew up in Biloxi, Miss., the Gulf Coast city known for its waterfront resort casinos and shallow, sandy beaches. Not long after their…
Read more Returning Home to Mississippi, a Couple Looked for a Family HeadquartersFor nearly 20 years, Marisa Lalli bounced from one Manhattan rental to the next. She even tried a year in Philadelphia, which only convinced her that New York…
Read more A Father’s Wish Becomes a Daughter’s Fulfillment on the Upper West SideWhen Daniel Waters met Jodie Horton five years ago, one of the first things he told her was that he dreamed of buying property on a beach. “Being…
Read more Beyond Sight Unseen: She Bought a Condo in Panama That Didn’t ExistNick and Katie Deponte grew up about 30 minutes away from each other in Southern California — she in Claremont, Calif., at the eastern edge of Los Angeles…
Read more They Tested Their $800,000 Budget on the Edges of Los Angeles CountyThe theater legend and ‘Familiar Touch’ star hosts friends and artists in her expansive Brooklyn brownstone. Addie Morfoot Source link
Read more Look Inside Kathleen Chalfant’s Brooklyn HomeWhen Beth and Brandon Sheafor decided it was time to downsize in Helena, Mont., they wanted to change their suburban lifestyle, too. The Sheafors had moved to Montana’s…
Read more They Left Their Empty Nest for a Fresh Start in Helena, MontanaPatty Chan’s love affair with Japan began 55 years ago, when she was a high school student in the San Francisco Bay Area and visited for the first…
Read more An American Couple Explored Japan for a Diamond in the RoughFor a dozen years, Paul and Amy Silverman lived in Houston, where he worked as an oncologic radiologist. The couple later discovered Asheville, N.C., when they visited for…
Read more Life Led Them to Brooklyn, but to Which Two-Bedroom Condo?Near the refrigerator, the lead level was 27 times the federal limit. And that wasn’t all. Jeff Van Ness is constantly cleaning. Every day, he vacuums, mops and…
Read more Insurers Said They Could Return Home. Our Tests Found Neurotoxins in Their Bodies.Adam and Amanda Powell loved living in Liechtenstein, Europe’s fourth-smallest country. The American couple, who work for Hilti, a Liechtenstein-based power-tool company, spent three years in a modern,…
Read more Outside Dallas, a Young Family Just Wanted Some Space. Here’s Where They Found It.Nigel Campbell has spent most of his life moving — both his body and his home. Raised in the Bronx, he attended Juilliard for dance and went on…
Read more Searching Brooklyn and the Bronx With a $600,000 Ceiling. Here’s What They Found.This past spring, David Barenholtz and Jeff Allyn decided it was time to leave Texas. The couple, both self-employed business consultants, had lived in Austin for eight years…
Read more They Left Texas for a New Home in the Desert Outside Palm SpringsWhen Crissy Spivey bought herself a large one-bedroom, one-bath co-op in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park neighborhood in 2018, she had all the space she needed. Shortly before she closed,…
Read more They Upsized to a Single-Family House in Brooklyn for Less Than $900,000. But Where?
