Columnist Nancy Keates is six months into her plans to knock down her home and build anew, yet she's seen little progress. She hopes to prod her architect into action, but worries she's being too much of a nag.

Amid reports about the decline of the honeybee population, homeowners are shunning pesticides, planting flowers to attract these insects and creating bee nesting sites. Also, see a video tour of a bee garden.

After a swarm of yellow jackets colonized her compost bin, June Fletcher turns to commercially prepared products to condition her soil. She shares her picks.

Even areas fronting the U.S.’s biggest lakes aren’t guaranteed buoyant home prices. We profile five metros and show where prices are rising and where they’re not.

Houses designed in part by the lifestyle guru are selling well, even as home builders suffer plunging sales and dwindling profits.

A year after Gwendolyn Bounds went organic she finally has a healthy swath of grass. So do other eco-friendly homeowners, but battle lines are being drawn over weeds.

This week’s survey of news looks at rising home prices and demand in Manhattan and California’s ‘Platinum Triangle,’ the most affordable and unaffordable cities, rising foreclosure rates in Atlanta, slowing sales in Seattle and the shrinking size of new homes.

Young singles and couples often lack the finances to buy a place of their own. But shouldering costs through co-ownership -- with friends, family or investors -- may be an affordable alternative.

When your home is your castle do you really want it to lay in ruin because of your laziness? Why it's so easy to put off maintaining your house.

A first-time homeowner is out $30,000 after discovering non-permitted work in his new home. June Fletcher on ways he can possibly recoup his money.