Several small Italian towns have hit the headlines for selling off vacant houses for €1 a pop in the past couple of years. But how does the scheme work, and who is eligible to snap up one of ...

With endless hordes Minecraft house builds out there clamoring for attention, we've locked down and done all the hard work to get together the best of them, so all you have to do is browse the ...

Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses—and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and ...

“It was pretty much 100 percent pure the whole time,” he says. Dickerson’s house escaped the intense wildfire smoke because of one crucial decision he and his partner made when renovating ...

Images of Amsterdam’s much-loved narrow and wonky canal houses have shaped the world’s perception of Dutch architecture. So how did we end up with the classic design of the canal house? Even if you’ve ...

If that number seems ambitious, it’s worth remembering that an estimated 3.1 billion people play videogames worldwide, according to analytics firm Aldora Intelligence. Research has pointed out that 81 ...

But others like to take things a step further and actually immerse themselves in he scariest haunted houses, which pretty much feels like being on a live-action set of a horror film, complete with ...

A new documentary called “The House From …” explores what happens when a home becomes a star of film or television. By Julie Lasky Imagine strangers dropping by to smoke weed in your yard ...

However, it’s not all roses, as Verona reminds us that house price affordability is relative to the ‘earning potential on offer.’ In County Durham, the average income comes in around 14% ...

No ghosts. Haunted houses, if one believes, can be problematic for real estate agents. The New York Times talked to agents who have embraced the macabre or have at least learned how to navigate it ...