Our favorite steampunk loft in New York City has lost all of the, well, steampunk. Continue Reading »

By Pat Mertz Esswein, Kiplinger's Personal Finance As you go about your annual spring-cleaning ritual, take a few additional steps to save money on energy bills this summer, improve your home's appearance and ward off big-ticket repairs later. Here are 18 things for you (or the handyman) to tackle now to help prepare ... Continue Reading »

Not all cities are created equal, and some cities are certainly better than others when it comes to sports. The more major league sports teams a city has, the more a it has to offer to those who love the game. Additionally, the more successful a team, the happier its fans become. With this in mind, 24/7 Wall St. set out ... Continue Reading »

Think the high-end of the market hasn't been felled by the economic downturn? Guess again. Here's a lovely four-bedroom contemporary home in Malibu, Calif., that is now being offered as a short sale with a recent price drop of $1 million. Ouch. The 5,000-square-foot home is now listed at $2.85 million, subject to the ... Continue Reading »

Actor Bruce Willis is a fixture on the Sun Valley Idaho real estate scene, owning multiple properties in the ski resort area. He's about to own one less though, having just put his 20-acre, lakefront ranch on the market for $15 million. Willis' agent, Janine Bear with Sun Valley Sotheby's International Realty, told ... Continue Reading »

During the Great Depression, people who were forced to live in their cars were known as "Ford families." Today, they go by the far more impersonal name of the "vehicular homeless," and you can count 45-year-old Carey Fuller and her two daughters, 8 and 17, among them. The Fullers (pictured above) became homeless in ... Continue Reading »

There are some architectural styles that just dictate my behavior. For instance, whenever I see a French Norman estate, I feel like I should lower my voice to a whisper and put paper slippers over my shoes before I traipse on in. This is one of those places. Located in Bel-Air, a Los Angeles community of expensive ... Continue Reading »

Let's preface this by saying Demi Moore didn't call us to consult on her plan to divorce Ashton Kutcher (or anything else for that matter). So we really don't know about any existing or non-existing pre-nups, legal agreements or much of anything else that transpired in their marriage and pre-divorce planning. But what we ... Continue Reading »

Why would former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno transfer ownership of his house, worth $594,484, to his wife for $1 in July, unless he knew that he was about to be drawn into the college's sex-abuse scandal, with potential civil lawsuits and damages heading upfield toward him? While his lawyer told The New ... Continue Reading »

Let's just say it: If there is such a thing as a bad time to be rich, it's definitely now. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sanford I. Weill, a one percenter who is the former chairman and chief executive of Citigroup Inc., has listed his postwar Central Park West penthouse in Manhattan for $88 million, with the ... Continue Reading »

Built in 1932 for the renowned American muralist Ezra Winter, this 8,000-square-foot house/studio in Northwestern Connecticut is the housing equivalent of Suzanne Sommers -- it is simply age-defying. Now listed for $3.45 million, the 82-acre estate has had some touch-ups through the years -- the studio was renovated ... Continue Reading »

When it comes to the housing crisis, it's not what the GOP candidates have said but what they're not saying. The housing and foreclosure crisis has been pretty much invisible in the presidential race, playing stepchild to the issue of what to do about all those unemployed people and the pesky fact that nobody is ... Continue Reading »

Obviously some people think that the best way to market a property is to maximize the fact that someone famous -- in this case Britney Spears -- once lived here. For the record, she leased this place for about two years ending earlier this year, but never owned it. And equally obviously, some people think that the ... Continue Reading »

First we have Mr. Heavy Metalist and Mrs. Osbourne (pictured at far left) occupying perfectly good space in the MLS with their Malibu home -- previously listed in June at $9.5 million -- back on the market at a "reduced price" of $9.45 million. That's $50,000 off nearly $10 million. Big whoop. And the very next day, ... Continue Reading »

Who was it that said that the definition of insanity is to repeat the same action and expect a different outcome? ... Continue Reading »