They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

On the Toronto Islands, an ugly real estate battle forces neighbours to ask: How do we define family?

The high-tech real estate startup boasts SoftBank backing, a $1.6 billion war chest, and plenty of skeptics. Now it’s cashing in on the pandemic real estate boom.

In 2005, Vanessa Mitchell moved into her dream home, a former medieval jail where England’s witches waited to hang and burn. When paranormal phenomena forced her to flee, she became convinced it was possessed by evil spirits.

What’s the future of NYC real estate?

John Ackerman has spent millions procuring a majority of the known caves in Minnesota, which add up to dozens of miles of underground passageways and likely make him the largest cave owner in the U.S. He collects and charts them in the name of preservation, but his controversial methods have created many opponents.

In the 1960s, a white subdivision prepares for the arrival of a black family.

How Washington society got scammed by one of its own.

Uncovering evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents.

A year living in a shack in Oakland.

A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.

How the most expensive and unstoppable invasive plant crisis inspires madness and panic.

How Miami’s real estate industry turns a blind eye to climate change.

They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.

Cape Coral, Florida, was built on lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. It’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.

“It was a crumbling Parkdale rooming house, populated by drug users and squatters and available on the cheap. We were cash-strapped, desperate to move and hemmed in by a hot market.”

The landlord’s guide to gentrifying New York.

Alben Sagan got his name from the U.S. Marshals. Then he got a fortune from a woman he’d only known for a few years.

A look inside Donald Trump’s portfolio of exclusive real estate properties.

Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

Shakiya Robertson thought she had found a way get her family a home. She moved in, fixed the place up, made all the payments. Then she, like thousands of others in Detroit, was told that the house she thought she had purchased wasn’t actually hers.

An elderly woman renovates her basement for renters and discovers uncomfortable truths about herself.

Only after buying a new home did the Milliken family learn something terrible had happened in it.

How New York real estate became the new Swiss bank account.