For an urban second-home buyer, the allure of a farmhouse in the northern Catskills has much to do with the setting.

Pioneering Chicagoans with a creative bent have transformed Three Oaks into a hot spot for second-home buyers smitten with the arts.

An oceanfront residential resort near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and a residential golf development in southwest Virginia.

Many second-home owners in the next few weeks will encounter evidence that their houses did not sit empty last winter.

Jim Abdo has transformed a 1907 bungalow from its humble past into its current double life: period vernacular outside, completely modern inside.

Repairs to cracks found along a $1.4-billion, 20-mile Phoenix-area light-rail project are nearly complete, but deciding who's to blame is still far from done.

Emaar Properties PJSC seemed to rise out of nowhere, much like the Burj Dubai - the superskyscraper it is building in the desert city on the Persian Gulf peninsula it calls home.

August topping-out expected for record-tall supertower in Dubai

George J. Efstathiou, a managing partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Mark Amirault and Robert Booth, executives of Emaar Properties PJSC, Dubai, shook hands to seal the deal for SOM to design a 550-meter-tall skyscraper that would be the icon of a $20-billion development in Dubai.

Some may have considered Ahmad Abdelrazaq's late 2004 move from architect-engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to contractor Samsung Corp. a missed opportunity.