A couple formerly in the lace-manufacturing business created this penthouse on the Upper East Side by combining two apartments.

This six-bedroom home near Basingstoke was a fairly modest 18th-century cottage until its current owners added two new extensions to the ground floor.

This six-bedroom home on the European shore of the Bosphorus was built in 1999 in a fashionable district close to the center of Istanbul.

Many small businesses are finding ways to minimize the downside risk of getting into real estate.

An $85 million L.A. mansion with a 500-worker renovation team. A $70 million London home with a bowling alley. The Ecclestone sisters are swiftly amassing a global property portfolio. The new generation of wealthy buyers.

Celine Dion lists a private Canadian island for $29.3 million; Ryan Seacrest is in escrow to buy Ellen DeGeneres’s home for $37 million; a midtown Manhattan duplex lists for $12 million.

Even if pushed, you don’t have to share the details of your bank account or personal life.

If last year was about big, manly architectural statements at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, this year is about exploring the softer, more sensual side of gardening, with smells and sounds featuring heavily in show spaces.

This seven-bedroom house in Queenstown, New Zealand, with lake and mountain views has been used as a bed and breakfast for the past decade.

A Queen Anne Victorian, one of San Francisco’s ‘Painted Ladies’ overlooking Alamo Square Park, is on the market for $2.295 million.