Mallory Carra

In a tough economy, raising the value of a home by redoing just one room might be akin to finding free money. The question, on today's limited budgets, is which room to do. "Sweat Equity," a show on the DIY Network, hopes to provide some answers. The…

It's 10 a.m. in Brooklyn and time for "screw school" - learning about screw guns and drywall, that is. The concept is foreign to me and 23 real estate brokers as we work on Habitat for Humanity's largest multifamily project in the world. That's…

Would you give up your day job to make a knife? Joel Bukiewicz did. Four years ago, the New School graduate student who relocated to rural Georgia for a change of scenery traded writing a novel for making his first knife. "I always had an interest in…

Why rent when you can buy?" is the age-old question when it comes to real estate in New York and beyond. Glenwood, which since 1964 has only built luxury rental apartments, believes in building so well that people don't have to own to enjoy top…

For the past 10 years, she has painted the view from every corner of her neighborhood park and has gotten to know most of the homeless people who've hung around there. Among those, the 46-year-old Jane St. resident recalls Donna Rossomando and the…