Kathleen Lynn

The stone house has small rooms, an overgrown yard and a roof that begs to be replaced. But investor Frank Oliveri and his business partner, Al Best, see the potential...

Mortgage rates have plunged to record lows, below 4 percent. That's great — but only if you can actually qualify for a loan, and that's not easy. After giving away...

Peg and Don Cordes spent $30,000 to upgrade their Mahwah, N.J., condo before putting it up for sale, hoping to stand out in a tough market. They updated the kitchen...

Tony DiOrio wanted a rustic home, but his heart sank when his real estate agent drove him up to a West Milford, N.J., log house in 1999. "It was not...

Living in a 1678 stone house allowed Marlene Casey to "take something that has been in existence for hundreds of years and lovingly restore what needs to be restored and...

Almost three years after she last paid the mortgage, Linda Ganguzza remains in her New Milford, N.J., home, one of many troubled homeowners caught in a drawn-out foreclosure process. "I...

Julie Tung, a history major turned software executive, wanted a historic house to restore. Ed Schwartz, her boyfriend (now husband), wanted a house he could make energy-efficient. And it had...