Space is a sought-after commodity in real estate. Buyers prioritize numerous variables when searching for a new home, and square footage is often near the top of their lists. (Metro) The real estate ...

Stuck for space? Try these basement conversion ideas that show how even the smallest of subterranean rooms and cellars can ...

Anyone who lives in a home with a basement can really enhance their property by converting this space. Basement conversions have become very popular over the years, and people transform these spaces ...

Designing a basement isn't just about the wow-factor. First steps are the key design essentials to create a space that's warm ...

Basement dwellings have been eyed as a relief valve for Boston’s housing crisis, but a summer with record rain and fatal storms down the East Coast shows they may come with dangerous risks. Hurricane ...

Existing state laws are raising the costs of converting an unregulated basement unit up to legal building code standards to as much as $1 million, city officials said at a City Council hearing Tuesday ...

Only five of 800 basement apartment owners who expressed interest in a program to legalize those units ultimately participated, city officials said Tuesday. The main reasons were cost and zoning that ...

A side street in East New York. The application deadline for community-based organizations to participate in administering the city’s new basement conversion pilot program launched in the East New ...