During the real-estate boom, contractors were as cocky as dot-com execs. Are they going to be returning your calls at last?

Summer rentals are already down. But will the bears save the Hamptons from being paved over with insta-mansions?

Penn South was subsidized workers' housing decades before Chelsea became fabulous. Will its duffel-coat-clad residents vote to join the party?

One little market crash, and the scavengers are circling. But sellers won't let them get something for nothing.

The city's a thicket of construction cranes, and new buildings are crowding out the delicate parking-lot ecosystem. Where do the cars go now?

December's raid on an illegal DUMBO dwelling made Brooklyn's loft-living artists get off their Carhartt jeans and get organized. But is it too late?

As still another rent regulation tightens, tenants -- trapped between roommate and landlord -- are running out of breathing room.

New Yorkers love to feel like they've got the best hookup in town. But with the market softening, will broadband connect with buyers?

Trying to dig up a good apartment by looking through the obits? Arthur Bernhardt turns over the grave news daily.