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

… In our new column the Expat Renter we check into how leasing an apartment works in other cities and compare it to the sometimes intractable process New … Brooklyn and Northwest Queens The big differentiator between the two markets is the considerably larger amount of …

By Julie Strickland |March 30, 2017 - 8:59AM
Julia Child's house is for sale and you should buy it ASAP

… a friends property Childs former French home is now on the market the New York Times reports after many years playing … same look and feel as the one in the Smithsonian Whoever buys it is really buying a true piece of Julia Childs history For the less …

By Virginia K. Smith |November 12, 2015 - 2:05PM
Did Berlin just crack the code to keeping rents affordable?

… in Bushwick a ban on apartments being used as shortterm vacation rentals and the generally openended tenancies that are … photographer Rad Roubeni on his piece of the Berlin wall … Escape … Rent … Affordable Housing … Affordable Housing … …

By Virginia K. Smith |July 10, 2015 - 10:30AM
European homes that'll cost you the same as (or less than) a Manhattan one-bedroom

… Thanks to the weakening euro nows the time for Americans to buy in Europe reports  The Real Deal   Twist our arm why … than the average Manhattan onebedroom around  $837000 Airfare not included   … Barcelona Coast  Teia Spain … A … pool  on the  Maresme  Coast overlooking the Mediterranean whats not to like   … Amsterdam the Netherlands … Youll have …

By BrickUnderground |March 12, 2015 - 10:30AM