On Location | Bluff, Utah

Her Hallowed Ground in the Navajo Nation

By SARAH AMELAR
The glass-paned doors on Lorraine Nakai’s desert house were all salvaged.
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The glass-paned doors on Lorraine Nakai’s desert house were all salvaged.

Returning to the reservation, in a family footprint.

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A three-bedroom house near the Piscataqua River in Dover, N.H., is on the market for $537,900.

What You Get for ... $538,000

By MIKE POWELL

Ranch houses in Houston and Nashville and an old farmhouse in New Hampshire

International Real Estate
A fifth-floor-walk-up apartment with two bedrooms in this building in Old-Town Prague is on the market for $750,000.

House Hunting in ... the Czech Republic

By VIRGINIA C. McGUIRE

The market in Prague has recovered fairly well from the financial crisis, but there is still a dearth of luxury properties.

Pieter and Marieke Sanders’s home, right, sits next to Teylers Museum, the oldest museum in the Netherlands.

Historic Dutch Setting for a Modern Art Collection

By ABIGAIL R. ESMAN

A couple's renovations turned a house with its roots in the 15th century into a contemporary showplace.

The $2.25 million home is built on limestone foundations on the shore of Lake Garda and has several energy-saving features.

Lake-View Living at the House of Glass

By PENELOPE COLSTON

Properties like this two-story structure with floor-to-ceiling windows and a panorama of Lake Garda, in northern Italy, are becoming hard to find.

The main living room in the

The Truly Hidden Treasures of Transylvania

By PALKO KARASZ

There are properties for sale, but sometimes they are not easy to locate. And some remote villages in this historic area in central Romania are only accessible by sport utility vehicle.

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I’ll Take It

In the Navajo Nation, the gift of a home.

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What You Get for ... $538,000
By Mike Powell

Ranch houses in Houston and Nashville and an old farmhouse in New Hampshire

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International Real Estate
Real Estate in the Czech Republic

The market in Prague has recovered fairly well from the financial crisis, but there is still a dearth of luxury properties.

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On Location
Michael Diamond, top, designed the Flavor Paper Brooklyn Toile wallcovering, center. Tamra Davis found the Tord Boontje chandelier, left. The light fixture over the tub in the master bathroom is from Pelle.

Licensed to Grill: Mike D’s Brooklyn Town House

By JULIE EARLE-LEVINE

Michael Diamond, also known as one of the Beastie Boys, chills in the ‘burbs, his first move out of Manhattan.

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A four-bedroom house on the Indian River in Titusville, Fla., is on the market for $899,000.

What You Get for ... $899,000

By MIKE POWELL

Homes in Ohio, Denver and Florida that were built in the late 19th-century are this week’s subjects.

International Real Estate
Biarritz has been known as the surfing capital of France since the late 1950s.

House Hunting on ... the Côte Basque

By PETER SIGAL

A budding recovery of the property market in 2010 was cut short by the Greek economic crisis and uncertainty over the French election.

On Location | Hillsdale, N.Y.
The house is a 90-foot-long rectangular box with a 12-foot overhang that runs along the back.

A Homestead for House Stalkers

By STEVEN KURUTZ

A couple settle down (at least for now) in a passive-solar box in the country.

International Real Estate
Kite House, a four-bedroom four-bath home in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, is on the market for $3.3 million.

House Hunting in ... Mexico

By NINA ROBERTS

Despite the gradual recovery of the housing market, buyers have the edge in this corner of the Yucatán.

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A two-bedroom condominium in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago is on the market for $1,318,000.

What You Get for ... $1.3 Million

By MIKE POWELL

Homes with views in Chicago, Portland, Ore., and Georgia.

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A seven-bedroom Greek Revival in the coastal town of Belfast, Maine, is on the market for $820,000.

What You Get for ... $820,000

By MIKE POWELL

A 1997 house in San Antonio; an 1840 Greek Revival in Maine; and a country place in Kentucky

International Real Estate
This property, on the coast of County Cork, Ireland, is on the market for $2.6 million.

House Hunting in ... Ireland

By VIRGINIA C. McGUIRE

The waterfront market in County Cork is picking up slightly, spurred in part by foreign buyers and Irish expatriates returning home.

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A four-bedroom two-and-a-half bath modern in Studio City, Calif., is on the market for $1,995,000.

What You Get for ... $1,995,000

By MIKE POWELL

A modern house in Studio City, Calif; an ancient Colonial in Massachusetts; and a two-building compound in Charleston, S.C.

International Real Estate
A traditional Moroccan house with five bedroom suites is on the market for $1.3 million.

House Hunting in ... Morocco

By ALISON GREGOR

A traditional Moroccan house with five bedroom suites, a multilevel roof terrace and a courtyard.

On Location | San Francisco
The house nests in a boxlike concrete barge that provides protection and keel-like stability.

Their Floating World

By SARAH AMELAR

A couple build the home of their dreams, a modern houseboat amid the gulls and seals.

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A five-bedroom Queen Anne in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia is on the market for $1,050,000.

What You Get for ... $1 Million

By MIKE POWELL

An 1883 house in Philadelphia, an adobe in New Mexico and a cottage in Seattle.

International Real Estate
Molecule House, a villa in a gated community outside Buenos Aires, is on the market for $1.35 million.

House Hunting in ... Argentina

By NINA ROBERTS

The market, which traditionally relies on American dollars, is stagnant, in part because the government recently restricted real estate transactions in foreign currencies.

International Real Estate
This three-bedroom house in the Balinese countryside near Ubud is on the market for $450,000.

House Hunting in ... Bali

By VIRGINIA C. McGUIRE

The property market in Bali is growing by leaps and bounds, fueled by an increase in domestic tourism and by Indonesian investors from Jakarta and Surabaya.

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A four-bedroom house and one-bedroom guesthouse are on the market for $869,000 in Bozeman, Mont.

What You Get for ... $870,000

By MIKE POWELL

A 1905 cottage in Louisiana, a Cape in Vermont and mountain views in Montana.

On Location | Los Angeles
The designer Gere Kavanaugh's home in Los Angeles is packed with her own designs as well as objects, furniture and artwork made by others.

If It Has a Shape ...

By STEVEN KURUTZ

...chances are that Gere Kavanaugh, 84, has designed one, from cakes to homes.

On Location | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The glass-and-iron doors that open onto the courtyard were handmade at Peter Arts and Hedwig Pira's factory and designed to be as thin as possible, Ms. Pira said, “so as not to lose contact with the garden.” The shutters are vintage.

Where Coconuts Come Calling

By ELISA MALA

A thatched-roof oasis amid the monsoons, mosquitoes and fast pace of the former Saigon.

International Real Estate
The Pagoda, an 18th-century house in the village of Blackheath in Southeast London, is listed at $4.54 million.

House Hunting in ... London

By ALISON GREGOR

Despite the slump after the 2008 housing crash, prices in London have rebounded to their highest levels ever.

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A five-bedroom midcentury modern on 10 acres outside Boulder, Colo., is on the market for $5.75 million.

What You Get for ... $5.9 Million

By MIKE POWELL

A gated Spanish-style house in Pacific Palisades, Calif.; a midcentury modern outside Boulder, Colo.; and a brick traditional in Charlottesville, Va.

On Location | Dumbo, Brooklyn
In Mark Winkel’s apartment, left, foam flowers by Gregory Skolozdra; Aaron Tyler Kuffner, William Etundi Jr.'s roommate, created the gamelatron, right, a musical instrument-slash-art installation.

The Art of Digging In

By PENELOPE GREEN

The tenants of one Dumbo building have turned their apartments into otherworldly environments. But after filing for legal protection, they are at odds with their once-benevolent landlord.

Vacation Rentals

Search over over 80,000 vacation rental listings from New York City to the Carribean to Europe.

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A Home in Haarlem

Pieter and Marieke Sanders spent 10 months on renovations so that this house, with its roots in the 15th century, would showcase their art collection.

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Mike D in Brooklyn

A hardcore Manhattanite and his family renovate a 160-year-old town house in Cobble Hill.

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International Real Estate
A Town House on the Côte Basque

A 1920s-era property in Biarritz with city views and elaborate floor medallions is on the market for $2.29 million.

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Real Estate for $899,000
By MIKE POWELL

Represented this week: Late 19th-Century homes in Ohio, Denver and Florida.

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The Simple Modern Solution

A sun-warmed, plant-filled box for living.

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International Real Estate
House Hunting in the Yucatán

A fully furnished four-bedroom house near the Caribbean beachfront and 45 minutes from the Cancún airport is on the market for $3.3 million.

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Homes for $1.3 Million
By MIKE POWELL

Tours of properties with views in Chicago, Portland, Ore., and Georgia.

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Red Rooms

A St. Petersburg apartment decorated to provoke conversation about a dark era in Russia’s history.

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Homes for $820,000

An 1840 Greek Revival in Maine; a country place in Kentucky; and a 1997 house in San Antonio.