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Is this $5.7M Vegas mansion worth its tremendous environmental cost?
This year’s New American Home has views of the Strip—and the building industry’s recklessness.
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Is it better to buy or rent in San Francisco?
The better deal in the long run depends on how long your run is.
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How to upgrade your NYC rental apartment on a budget
A drab New York City rental doesn’t have to stay that way: These five easy (and cheap) upgrades will help make your space feel homey—and are easily reversible when your lease ends.
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Cozy Soho co-op with vintage charm wants $599K
The unit has original details including exposed brick walls.
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Detroit's new residential developments, mapped
Here are 22 big residential projects underway in Detroit right now.
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Across Atlanta, 10 solid options for starter homes right now, mapped
From Buckhead to Sylvan Hills, housing prices within ITP Atlanta continue to rise, but attractive, cheaper condos and houses are available.
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How to pick a neighborhood in SF
Nine things to consider before choosing a ’hood in the city.
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11 Los Angeles renters’ rights everyone should know
Expert advice on how to deal with slow repairs and weird move-out notices.
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Feast your eyes on Curbed’s favorite Chicago apartment tours
From Robert A. M. Stern’s deco One Bennett Park to Jeanne Gang’s angular Solstice on the Park.
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The ultimate guide to renting in SF
Everything you need to know before signing the lease.
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How buying a house activated all of my anxieties
Purchasing a home means phone calls—and late-night worries about gentrification.
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The Case Study houses that made LA a modernist mecca
Mapping the homes that helped to define an era.
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SF’s best furniture and home design shops
Reignite your apartment or home with a small refresh or total makeover at these shops specializing in furniture and home decor.
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Two years in, has the Atlanta Beltline’s Westside Trail met expectations?
Locals share perspectives on a Beltline segment that hardly resembles its Eastside Trail counterpart, for better or worse.
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Where to live if you’d rather buy than rent
Renting in Chicago is more popular than ever, but there are areas where buying a home is worth your consideration.
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The best websites for renting an apartment in Chicago
Looking for the perfect Chicago rental? Start here.
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7 cozy cabins near NYC to rent for a winter getaway
Get out of the city and into a charming, snowy cabin
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An illustrated guide to Chicago architecture
Get to know signature styles from Chicago School, Prairie, and Millennium Modern.
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Waiting Game: How Atlanta’s building boom can make homebuying a high-stakes wager
"We’ve lived in a lot of major cities before... We’ve never experienced anything like this."
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The spellbinding storybook houses of Los Angeles
How storybook style—drawn from the pages of fairytales and Europe’s cobblestone streets—came to have a bewitching effect on Los Angeles.
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Mapping LA’s most incredible lost mansions
These estates were torn down, but their stories are not forgotten.
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Learning to make my bed and lie in it
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Who’s really leaving California, and why does that matter?
Many California homeowners are cashing out, picking up, and moving inland.
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Bolinas wanted to stay hidden—then came the internet
Short-term rentals and a dearth of housing have helped push working families out of this coastal enclave.
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An illustrated guide to SF architecture
Enjoy the city’s stylistic diversity, from Queen Anne to contemporary buildings.
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New York City is a mall
Experts claim retail is dead, but the "vertical centers" and "food halls" in America’s densest city just keep coming.
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101 things to love about Atlanta
A love letter to a city of many nicknames—just don’t call it Hotlanta.
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The abandoned movie ranch where Manson launched Helter Skelter
Spahn Ranch was Manson’s kingdom.
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The fabulous Florence Yoch
To design the shaded splendors of Tara, producer David O. Selznick had only one person in mind: Florence Yoch.
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‘Paradise at the end of the world’: An oral history of the Sea Ranch (Part I)
A two-part oral history mining the origins and controversies surrounding California’s most bucolic planned community—and forecasting its future
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15 small towns near Atlanta you need to visit now
Here’s a mapped checklist of 15 great (little) destinations to get you going in 2020.
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Inside San Francisco’s best homes
From the eclectic home of creatives in Oakland to an empty-nester couple’s colorfully Postmodernist apartment in SoMa.
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Inside a Mar Vista oasis with a pool and ocean views
Marmol Radziner creates a hilltop retreat.
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The slow train to Plaza Saltillo
Will a development almost 20 years in the making still work for the neighborhood around it?
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Get to know LA’s beautiful trees and flowers
Here’s an illustrated guide to some of the most common flora, from palm trees to sweet jasmine.