What You Get for .... $345,000
By MIKE POWELL
A row house in Philadelphia, a log house in Tennessee and a 1923 house in Omaha.
A geometrically shaped three-story house on Isla Mujeres is made from pumice and tile and inspired by the modern, clean lines of a nearby boutique hotel.
A row house in Philadelphia, a log house in Tennessee and a 1923 house in Omaha.
Prices remain flat, and some multimillion-dollar apartments on the higher end of the market can take years to sell.
Bargains are reviving the real estate market around the medieval fortified city of Carcassonne.
Search over over 80,000 vacation rental listings from New York City to the Carribean to Europe.
The famous daughter of the famous senator shows off her 1,100-square-foot home in West Hollywood.
A building in Arbúcies was built around 1900 and houses a family butcher business on the bottom floor and living quarters on the top three floors.
Helsinki’s housing market did not suffer greatly in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis.
A log cabin in Lousiana, a 1912 bungalow in Idaho and a three-bedroom 1983 house in Maine.
As a large cosmopolitan market with many international buyers, Amsterdam has seen a quicker economic recovery than the rest of the Netherlands.
A late-19th-century building still maintains much of its industrial past.
The Hammerhaus, a 16-room mini-castle that was built in 1400, is now filled with contemporary art and design.
Barracas, once an industrial area, is gaining ground as a desirable neighborhood, but still bears traces of its grittier past.
Sales to foreign buyers slowed down substantially with the economic downturn, and the market has only now begun to pick up.
The 19th-century stone-and-glass structure sits on an acre amid a fruit orchard and a thicket of chestnut, oak and beech trees.
Even with the economic crisis, the apartment inventory most popular with foreigners has not seen a dramatic drop in prices.
A 1910 house in Austin, Tex.; a log house on the Deschutes River in Oregon; and a condo in an 1850 carriage house in Boston.
Properties available for sale to foreigners are limited and tend to be more expensive.
The house in Marupe, a sleepy suburb of Riga, stands out among the more traditional boxy white and yellow stucco homes that define the neighborhood.
A Craftsman-style house in Birmingham, Ala.; a silolike house in the Catskills; and a loft in Minneapolis.
In Berkeley, Calif., a house with views of the San Francisco Bay; a duplex in a converted church in Newport, R.I.; and an oceanside cottage on Hawaii’s Big Island.
A Canadian haven whose second-home market is concentrated on its south shore.
This environmentally friendly 1,380-square-foot building is made almost entirely from honey-colored pine.
Lofts are rare in Budapest and practically nonexistent on the Danube.
A converted barn in Fayston, Vt.; a Queen Anne in Clarendon, Tex.; and a condo in Philadelphia.
A penthouse in a 17th-century palazzo on a canal in Venice is on the market for $1.96 million.
A row house in Philadelphia, a log house outside Nashville, and three-bedroom house in Omaha.
A log cabin in Lousiana, a 1912 bungalow in Idaho and a contemporary house in Maine.
A two-bedroom attic apartment in the historic Katajanokka neighborhood of Helsinki is on the market at $1.6 million.
A condo in a 1920 building in Seattle; a house in Boston built in 1860; and a contemporary in San Diego.
A two-bedroom loft condominium in a former candy factory overlooking the Looiersgracht canal in Amsterdam is on the market for $1.4 million.
In 2007, Eric Guibert, left and Robin Pembrooke, sold their home to buy a 6,000-square-foot former factory building in Kennington, England.
A two-bedroom penthouse in a former textile factory in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires is on the market for $800,000.
A four-bedroom condo in a Queen Anne in Princeton, N.J.; a contemporary house in Virginia’s Loudon Valley; and a 1905 house set on 17 wooded acres in Pine, Colo.