Anyone who lives in a home with a basement can really enhance their property by converting this space. Basement conversions have become very popular over the years, and people transform these spaces ...

Truly, madly, deeply in love with basement conversions? We've rounded up some of the best properties with underground lairs on the market. 25 February 2013 • 8:00am Saffron Walden, Essex This ...

Basement dwellings have been eyed as a relief valve for Boston’s housing crisis, but a summer with record rain and fatal storms down the East Coast shows they may come with dangerous risks. Hurricane ...

Existing state laws are raising the costs of converting an unregulated basement unit up to legal building code standards to as much as $1 million, city officials said at a City Council hearing Tuesday ...

Our latest lookbook features 10 homes where basement conversions create extra rooms and more liveable space underground. Basement conversions can be a practical way of providing homes with additional ...

“I’m surprised, I’m baffled, I’m angry,” said City Councilmember Sandy Nurse, who represents East New York, where the city ran an earlier basement conversion pilot in 2019. The area is excluded from ...

A side street in East New York. The application deadline for community-based organizations to participate in administering the city’s new basement conversion pilot program launched in the East New ...

Three years into a pilot program launched in East New York to convert illegal basement apartments into safe and regulated dwellings, the scheme has shown minimal progress, according to a new report.

New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has announced a new pilot program to help homeowners add an extra apartment in a basement, backyard or garage, as the city ...