More apartment owners are missing mortgage payments and trying to sell their homes to avoid default. Some seem to have been caught by surprise at the mess they find themselves in.

The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen is selling the air rights of its stately Renaissance-style building at 20 West 44th Street so a new building can expand.

The Grasmere neighborhood in Staten Island has a stop on the Staten Island Railway and is home to Brady?s Pond, which covers 15 acres.

David D?Atri, who had a mechanical excavator fall on him while he was working on the yard in his new house, feels like he has a second chance at life. His architect, Edwin William de Cossy, has a similar feeling.

After several false starts, Adam Cunningham, who was relocating to New York from California, found an apartment at 20 Exchange Place with a month?s free rent and the security deposit waived.

When selling his renovated town house in Harlem, Hans Futterman found that not everyone felt comfortable in the neighborhood, especially after an outburst of violence.

The latest figures on the market for houses priced at ?entry level? peg this as a propitious moment for buyers, if they can just qualify for a mortgage.

Just finding the perfect new home may no longer be enough; some buyers seem to want the house predecorated in the bargain.

Like many other developers in recent months, the company that was going to develop the White Plains downtown has run up against the realities of a sour real estate market.

Avalon Morningside Park, a new luxury apartment building on the corner of Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine?s property, helped the church generate some money so that it might complete some repairs.