Joyce Cohen

Searching in Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant, a young couple endeavored to find a sunny place with a decent kitchen and not too many stairs.

To find the right one-bedroom, a couple eschewed prewar style in favor of a cookie-cutter co-op.

Renting a one-bedroom near two hospitals left a couple yearning for some quiet and a bigger kitchen. Here’s what they found.

Seeking enough space for a music studio, a guest room and some outdoor space, a New York City couple searched south of Prospect Park for a house that fit their needs.

When the bathroom leak in her Bed-Stuy rental became too much to bear, an Alabama native looked around Prospect Heights, Williamsburg and Crown Heights for something she could afford to buy.

Looking to explore a new neighborhood in Manhattan and create a better work setup, a couple embarked on a search for a prewar two-bedroom.

After renting their first New York apartment sight unseen, they decided to take a new place in the South Bronx with eyes wide open.

A couple loved living in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, so much that they wanted to share the experience with others. So they looked for a distressed property they could restore and rent to a low-income tenant.

For his first home purchase, a resourceful renter stockpiled a down payment and looked for the ideal spot to invest it.

After getting to know the Queens neighborhood as a renter, a tennis instructor with a job on Randall’s Island went looking for a place of his own in a relatively new building.

After selling the family home in Westchester, an environmental engineer looked to ‘start over’ in the city — with his 23-year-old son in tow. Here’s what he found.

Homing in on Lenox Hill, a young couple figured they could ‘pay the high end of our budget, and have a ready-made apartment, or the low end, where we had room to renovate.’

Rather than accept a rent increase, a downtown denizen went looking for a studio he could afford to buy. In the end, he discovered, it all ‘comes down to neighborhood.’

With a combined budget of up to $3.5 million, the trio sought a townhouse that could offer communal living space and separate apartments, but options were scarce. Here’s what they found.

She Bought a Manhattan Home for Less Than $400,000 — Sight Unseen. But Which One?

With a long-held dream of becoming a New Yorker, an American expatriate in London trusted her gut, and her broker, to find an affordable place remotely. Here’s how she did it.

A pair of newlyweds dreamed of a three-bedroom house with a grassy yard for their dog and a reasonable commute to Manhattan. Here’s what they found.

Years of living in cheap city rentals set up a single dad to buy the three-bedroom home of his dreams. Here’s what he found for $500,000.

Figuring they didn’t have an ‘elevator budget,’ two renters focused on walk-ups for sale on the Lower East Side and in the East Village. Here’s what they found.

Two first-time buyers set their sights on Morningside Heights and South Harlem, aiming for a two-bedroom or large one-bedroom in an elevator building.