Virginia K. Smith

While prices—and demand—in New York's real estate market are still at dizzying highs, it looks like things may be calming down, at least a little bit: according to the latest market reports, prices are plateauing, apartments are staying on the market longer, and bidding wars (or calls for "best and final" offers among competing buyers) are less common than they were even a year ago.

The Russian bank handing out cats along with mortgages is definitely onto something (Jezebel via The Billfold)

Learning how to achieve "design compromise" in a cramped West Village apartment (Design Sponge)

Decorating a shared apartment when your significant other has awful taste: it can be done, tactfully (Refinery 29)

Can an Annie Leibovitz ad campaign lure you to one brokerage over all the others? (Corcoran)