Manhattan, where reality octo-Dad Jon Gosselin has a new place.

I used to be a fan off TLC channel's reality TV show, "Jon & Kate Plus Eight." It was once a sweet family program about a couple with eight children (twins and sextuplets), and was a series I could view with my twin daughters …Full Story

Yesterday, I blogged about impulse homebuying and buyer remorse. I'm wondering if Madonna is feeling the same pain, but on a much grander scale.

It seems that the Material Girl has purchased a 26-room mansion in Manhattan's Upper East Side for $40 million. She paid too much for it, Manhattan brokers say, even though her purchase price is said to be $5 million less than the original asking price …Full Story

This month, the Cyberhomes crew will share what's on our wish lists for the holiday season. Join us for 12 days of great gift ideas for home and real estate buffs.

Sarah Weissman, Cyberhomes director of photography

On my wish list: skim coating followed by new paint for my kitchen, dining room, hallway, bathroom and guest bedroom. After years of paying for essentially lousy paint jobs for my very old co-operative apartment in New York City, I had an epiphany when I saw a friend's house after her remodel. Of all the things that made my heart soar (new appliances, windows and floor), I couldn't take my eyes off her walls. They were truly things of beauty. So flat, you had no idea plaster ever touched them. There where none of the dents and imperfections that I always assumed were part of having walls in New York. Based on the walls alone, her apartment looked like a museum. I got the name of her painter and paid him $5,000 to apply a super-thin coat of plaster, sand it to perfect evenness and apply warm-toned paint to the front three sun-drenched rooms of my apartment, where the light would allow people to marvel at my newly flat walls. Seriously: People now talk about my paint. (Putting holes in it to hang pictures nearly broke my heart.) Next up: the rest of my home …Full Story

I recently went to a party at a friend's trendy one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The apartment is beautiful, with a whole wall of windows that open up onto a sizeable second-floor terrace.

At the party, I met a woman who said she lives about three blocks away from my friend. Her larger, two-bedroom apartment has been on the market since April, and she hasn't been able to sell it. Meanwhile, her husband has already relocated to Southern New Jersey, where his job has taken him, and the woman is anxious to sell so she and her two young children can be reunited with him.

I asked the woman if she's tried staging her apartment. (Staging is a tactic used to entice buyers -- through staging, a homeowner might liven up a home's interior with new paint, décor and a rearrangement or a paring down of furniture.) I also asked whether she's tried decluttering her home. She replied that she hasn't done either -- it's much too hard to do with two young children around, she said …Full Story

Even the high-end housing market is feeling Wall Street's woes. (mathieukor/iStockphoto)

Stories published Friday, however, on CNNMoney.com and WSJ.com (the Wall Street Journal's website), show that it's not just the average Joe who's getting pounded in today's economy, the rich are starting to feel the pinch, too …Full Story