Europe

Escape

5 places for sale in Europe, while the U.S. dollar is strong

By Austin Havens-Bowen |August 5, 2022 - 12:20PM

Escape

An American in Paris: How a New Yorker should handle an apartment hunt in the City of Light

By Julie Strickland |March 30, 2017 - 8:59AM

New Construction + Condos

The latest city to crack down on pied-a-terres, Paris hits empty apartments with a whopping 60 percent tax

By Virginia K. Smith |March 21, 2017 - 2:59PM

Rent

Broker fees on rentals are now banned in the U.K., but New Yorkers shouldn't bank on it

… A few months back we wrote about a petition to ban socalled letting fees the UK equivalent of the broker fees many New Yorkers … have to pay anywhere from £80 to £500 or £600 in letting agent fees according to Vicky Spratt editor of The Debrief …

By Virginia K. Smith |December 8, 2016 - 1:59PM

Escape

Julia Child's house is for sale and you should buy it ASAP

By Virginia K. Smith |November 12, 2015 - 2:05PM

The Market

Reminder: abandoned towns are still much cheaper than a New York apartment

By Virginia K. Smith |August 26, 2015 - 1:59PM

Second Homes

Make the weak Euro work for you: Vacation homes across the pond for around $200,000 or under

By BrickUnderground |August 24, 2015 - 3:59PM

Affordable Housing

Did Berlin just crack the code to keeping rents affordable?

… the past several years it has been facing an affordable housing crisis thats looked painfully familiar to most New Yorkers But after enacting new rent control laws last month it seems the city may already … developed world CityLab reported yesterday on the citys new rental price brake system which has already reduced the …

By Virginia K. Smith |July 10, 2015 - 10:30AM