Maryann Giacobbe Houlihan Lawrence

When I need a good laugh, I like to read Vanity Fair magazine’s ‘Actual Complaints from Actual Rich People’ column. The monthly column is a super-short, super-funny compilation of woes of the very rich, as overheard by the author.  My guess is that most of these sayings seemed totally sensible to...

Between the satisfaction of keeping more money in the bank and the creative solutions we can be inspired to find, decorating a home on a tight budget can be rewarding. But being a budget decorator requires its own special set of skills, and that is where this ideabook comes in. From shopping your...

7 Things New Homeowners Don't Know They Need to Do   Your first year as a homeowner is kind of like the first year of a marriage. There’s the honeymoon phase, where the fact that you never have to pay rent again feels freaking awesome, but there are also a bunch of new responsibilities. You’re bu...

A. “It’s never great to be able to look into someone else’s window,” said Lyn Stevens, a real estate broker at Sotheby’s International Realty in Greenwich, Conn. And it’s worse still when they can look into yours. But before trying to solve the problem, she said, “think about return on investmen...