Rent Now, Buy Later

Real Estate

By VIVIAN MARINO

Published: December 7, 2008

As residential sales have softened in the city and throughout the region, many developments are offering rent-to-own options.

What You Get for ... $400,000 - Halifax, Vt

Property Values

By MIKE POWELL

Published: November 26, 2008

A one-bedroom loft in Phoenix, a house on 10 acres in Halifax, Vt., and a house in a gated subdivision in Kill Devil Hills, N.C

36 Hours in Burlington, Vt.

Travel

By KATIE ZEZIMA

Published: November 2, 2008

For all its worldliness — antiglobalization rallies and fair-trade products abound — the city has turned an eye to the local.

Bean Town

New York Region / The City

By TED BOTHA

Published: October 26, 2008

The number of coffee shops opening across the city recently has some people claiming that New York is experiencing a coffee renaissance.

A Genteel Setting With World-Class Golf

Havens | Pinehurst, N.C.

By STEPHEN WELLS

Published: August 22, 2008

Life in the turn-of-the-century New England-style village of Pinehurst, N.C., is a throwback to an era of casual gentility.

Housing Lenders Fear Bigger Wave of Loan Defaults

Business

By VIKAS BAJAJ

Published: August 4, 2008

Homeowners with good credit are falling behind on their payments in growing numbers, just as the problems with subprime mortgages are leveling off.

What’s Lurking in Your Countertop?

Home & Garden

By KATE MURPHY

Published: July 24, 2008

As the popularity of granite countertops has increased, so have reports that some are emitting radiation and radon at surprisingly high levels.