REAL ESTATE

A condo in the shimmering twin towers at 25 Columbus Circle in Manhattan has sold for $19.4 million, according to city records.

Along Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, an array of neoclassical monuments give tribute to the country's leaders. But a new arrival breaks the mold and has caused recent controversy.

Developer Edward Minskoff's obsidian and silver edifice at 51 Astor Place will soon mark the latest transformation of New York's East Village.

The teen pop star is crashing in NHL player Scott Gomez's old pad, which has an outdoor kitchen, a 120 HD screen in the living room, and three bedrooms.

By now everyone should know about Russian heiress Ekaterina Rybolovleva. When a deal closed on an $88-million apartment on Wednesday, it was the most expensive apartment sold in New York City and she owns it.

Ekaterina Rybolovleva, 22, now owns the most expensive apartment ever sold in New York City, after her billion father, Russian fertiliser magnate Dmitry Rybolovlev on Wednesday, closed the $88 million-deal for the Central Park West pad. He is said to be the 93rd richest man.

Whitney Houston's New Jersey mansion, the setting of her tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, is for sale, with an asking price of $1.75 million following the start's death last weekend.

An audit released this week called the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey a challenged and dysfunctional organization, citing the ballooning costs at New York's World Trade Center. But, for all the turmoil at the site, the Port Authority has taken steps to return it to both the private and public city.

Looks like actress Halle Berry is in the market for a temporary place.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain has put his Noe Valley neighborhood house on the market.

A nine-bedroom mansion in East Hampton, N.Y. has found a buyer in what could be one of the priciest deals of the year.

Architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has designed a fluorescent heart to mark Valentine's Day in New York's Times Square.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen moved into a $20 million California mansion, and Eli Manning and wife Abby's New Jersey condo is fully automated. This photo slideshow allows you to decide: whose house is nicer?

A breathtaking photo taken from the crane on the 90th floor of 1 WTC, looking out on downtown Manhattan, the Lower East Side, and New York's East River bridges.

Facadism, or the architectural practice of building modern structures behind old facades, is hard to get right, but when it is, the result is much more than the sum of its parts.

James Cameron just might be looking for a more simple life.

Actress Cynthia Nixon has snapped up some prime real estate.

Ryan Reynolds has put the house he lived in with ex-wife Scarlett Johansson up for sale.

Last week, GDS Architects won a competition to design a tower in Incheon, South Korea. The crystalline structure is design to disapear through optical technology, the architects said.

Long nicknamed the Finger Building, the condo building has been reviled by local residents. But now, it has sold, with 70 percent of its 41 apartments in contract after a few months of marketing.

The U.S. administration on Friday expanded its main foreclosure-prevention program and pushed to open it to those with loans backed by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a move that could meet resistance from their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Jorge Posada, who just retired from his 17-year gig as the New York Yankees' catcher, has listed his Upper East Side apartment for $11.5 million.

Jennifer Aniston is officially the Hollywood queen of real estate.

Jennifer Aniston has purchased a mansion in Bel Air, Calif. for $21 million.

This past week, New York University began the long approval process for its plan to add four new buildings to two superblocks just south of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village.

PETA, the animal rights group, is seeking to obtain O.J. Simpson's Florida home from JPMorgan Chase for a Meat is Murder museum.

Former football star and actor O.J. Simpson is facing foreclosure.

O. J. Simpson, the former football star who gained notoriety during a 1995 murder trial, is facing foreclosure on his Florida home.

Robert Duffy of SOM is leading the design of Cornell's new campus at Roosevelt Island, which aims to be one of the most sustainable in the country.