Second-home prices in the Catskills have dropped ? some by a third or more ? and still buyers are scarce.

In a difficult market, developers are turning to ambitious art and design plans to entice buyers and, hopefully, make a sale.

Tight financing has pushed back an initiative to create or preserve 165,000 residential units.

A four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath house with a garden in the Corpus Christi neighborhood of Cozumel.

Many people have bought homes in golf developments for the high-end courses, the tight-knit community and the plush clubhouses, but the real estate slump is leaving some waiting at the first tee.

Once emblems of conspicuous consumption, concierges are repositioning themselves. Now they help clients with the nuts and bolts of their downsized lives.

A condo in a 92-year-old brick apartment building in Savannah, Ga., a condo on an island in Portland, Ore., and a traditional adobe home in Santa Fe, N.M.

New York City will spend $24 million to rehabilitate and resell 115 foreclosed homes, one of the most aggressive steps city officials have taken in years to prevent neighborhood blight.

Spurred by falling real estate prices and low mortgage rates, first-time buyers are cracking open the piggy bank earlier than planned. Traffic at open houses has stepped up.

A seven-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath mansion with harbor views in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Increasingly popular Web sites are changing the process of finding vacation units by making it easier for owners and renters to find each other.

A hush may have fallen on real estate, but the blogs devoted to the industry still have plenty to say. These days their tone is often more serious than snarky.

A former tenant of an apartment complex whose trademark was its sense of community and fun was surprised when the real estate company declined to renew his lease.

A condo in a former hospital building built in 1902 in Telluride, Colo., a cottage near the ocean on Tybee Island, Ga., and a house with a private beachfront in Saco, Me.

When this Manhattan architect couldn?t find a 19th-century Greek Revival house to restore, he built his own.

In this painful economic climate of layoffs and shrinking investments, there is a sliver of positive news: it?s a good time to be a renter in New York City.