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Friday, November 21st, 2008

Breaking Ground: Costa Pedasí & The Cliffs at Keowee Springs

A beachfront residential development and a lakeside golf resort community.

Friday, November 21st, 2008

High & Low | Vieques, P.R.: Prosperity After the Bombs Stopped

Vieques boasts more than 50 sparsely populated white sand beaches, crystal-clear water, a bioluminescent bay and hilly subtropical forest.

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Havens | Norris, Tenn.: Lake Living in Solitude Draws ‘Outsiders’

Second-home owners and retirees are being drawn to Norris by its mild year-round climate and inexpensive housing — all complemented by proximity to the cities of Oak Ridge and Knoxville.

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Away: A Focus on Light and Thrift

The view from inside this Vermont home looks out over a sloping meadow, a pond, a forest and the dramatic peaks of the Northfield mountain range.

Friday, November 21st, 2008

The New Old Mexico

In San Miguel de Allende, a place beloved for its preserved Spanish colonial architecture and aura of timeless charm, new developments for expatriates may threaten the lifestyle that drew them there.

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Living In | Marine Park, Brooklyn: Isolation Is Pretty Splendid

A prideful sense of separateness from Manhattan prevails in Marine Park, a neighborhood of 21,500 people in southeast Brooklyn.

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Deconversions Suffer but Don’t Stop in London

The recent global financial crisis is likely to weed out some renovators in London, but experts say overhauls, known as “deconversions,” probably would not come to a complete halt.

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Property Values: What You Get for … $800,000

A four-bedroom house near Breckenridge, Colo., a three-bedroom house in Phoenix, and a St. Simons Island, Ga., home one block from the beach.

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

A Cabin Is Not a Shack

Across the country, cabins are being reimagined in sustainable yet stylish ways and there’s nothing musty, creaky, saggy or squeaky about them.

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

In the Region | Long Island: Starting Up in a Sour Market

While major real estate companies have closed locations in Long Island, smaller companies have sprouted.