Apartments

Cities experiment to accommodate the glut of singles and childless couples.

A new study from Zillow pegs median rent at $1,318 per month nationwide.

The long tail of the recession still wreaks havoc on renters' real estate market.

Is modular construction poised to take off in the U.S.?

Three luxury high-rise apartment towers are luring the ultra-wealthy to an area of Midtown Manhattan better known for offices and stores.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote today on whether to allow the building of micro-apartments as small as 150 square feet. Similar programs have started to be tested in New York and Boston.

I just landed a job in Los Angeles and will be looking to rent starting in July. How much of my income is wise to spend on rent? Am I allowed to increase that number for a place like L.A., where rent is so expensive? Also, I only plan to be there for a year or so, so is it unreasonable for me to spend an extra couple hundred a month to live on the beach and take advantage of being single with my first job out of college? Sam, Athens, GA

Despite record-low mortgage rates, Americans are yet to wade back into home-ownership.

There's no gracious way to equally divide the rent. Inevitably, when sharing accommodations, someone will get the smaller room, the room next t...