Cities across the world continue to grow, and with that growth comes a shift in how people live. Rising housing costs, dense urban populations, and a desire to stay close to work, culture, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Current, in downtown West Palm Beach, which was about to open as a micro-apartment building, has been sold to a group that plans ...

What is a micro-apartment? The web site Realtor.com calls it the "urban equivalent of a tiny house" — a small dwelling, typically under 300 square feet, some as little as 100 — that is gaining ...

Micro-units took off as a rental trend in the Twin Cities roughly a decade ago. They are compact apartments, often railcar-shaped. Their origins are traced to high-density solutions from 1970s Japan. ...

Caesar LaVey’s 267-square-foot apartment is tucked inside a sleek five-story building called Sonrisa, a new affordable housing community two blocks from the state Capitol in downtown Sacramento. While ...

SEATAC, Wash. — Every part of Barbara Peraza-Garcia and her family’s single-room apartment in Seattle has a double or even triple purpose. The 180-square-foot (17-square-meter) room is filled with an ...

When Alterra Property Group converted a vintage Center City office tower to apartments in 2015, the 60 micro-units in the Avenir at 1515 South Chestnut St. were a big hit. Despite skepticism from ...

Park Place Holdings, a De Pere, Wisconsin-based commercial real estate investment firm, is constructing South River MicroFlats, an adaptive reuse project converting a portion of the office building at ...

According to Urbanize Atlanta, developer Stryant submitted its latest filings Wednesday with the Department of City Planning, outlining a plan for two street-facing eateries, an office headquarters ...

Very small apartments known as micro-apartments could be an answer to downtown housing woes. How small is a micro-apartment compared to a studio apartment? These apartments are about half to ...

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