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I won’t claim to know just how much overlap there is in the Venn diagram of hardcore Patti Smith fans and people on the hunt for impressive Brooklyn real estate, but if that sounds like you — welcome to your dream apartment! The Brooklyn home Smith shared with partner Robert Mapplethorpe is available to rent. Smith and Mapplethorpe moved into the Clinton Hill townhouse in 1967 and paid $80 a month (about $600 today) for the apartment.

Want to have a one-bedroom apartment all to yourself? Living alone invariably costs more than splitting the rent and utilities. But the price of escaping a roommate’s obnoxious habits or stray toenail clippings is a lot lower in some places than others — like Bloomington, Ind., for example. Most single Americans prefer to live alone, if they can afford to.

The latest of several ancient, historic (even prehistoric) places in Europe to offer insanely cheap real estate schemes in order to revive their aging populations, the mayor of one village on the Italian island of Sardinia is offering homes for sale for just one euro — with just one more week left to apply.

Just like his beloved character in Die Hard, and though he might work in both NYC and LA, actor Bruce Willis says he will “always be an Upper West Side guy” — even if he did just sell his most recent Central Park West home. Just one week after listing his prewar coop at 271 Central Park West for $17.

If you missed out on the recent sale of Grey Gardens, the famous Hamptons estate of Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, you’re in luck. The carriage house is on the market for the first time in 56 years. The five bedroom, four bathroom house sits on 1.1 acres near Georgica Beach and was built in 1896.

The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has surged past 4.28% this week to its highest point in years, according to CNBC. That’s bad news for home buyers, because even a small rate increase can be enough to push an already difficult-to-afford house completely out of reach. After starting the year around 4.0%, average rates have been steadily creeping higher, with some lenders quoting best rates of 4.5% this week.

Anna Faris is selling her mid-century modern oasis in the Hollywood Hills, which she once shared with soon-to-be ex-husband Chris Pratt and their son Jack. According to Architectural Digest, Faris purchased the 2,500 square foot 3/3 bungalow on a lush (nearly an acre) lot in Nichols Canyon back in 2005 for $1.995 million, while married to first husband Ben Indra. The actress and author recently listed the property for $2.5 million — it was once previously listed in 2013 for $2.3 million.

Do you like it Uptown? It is quiet uptown and now that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s family home is on the market, you could make your home in Inwood. Look around, look around at all of the features available in this spacious three bedroom, two bathroom co-op. If domestic life was never quite your style, maybe this home will change your mind.

There’s nothing funny about Chris Rock’s historic carriage house in Clinton Hill, with its stately period details and swoon-worthy stained glass. And after a few years of renting it out (some say for as high as $15,000 per month since 2013), Rock has finally sold the property he purchased as a newly famous standup comic.

If you’ve ever written a monthly check to Sallie Mae, the findings of a new study on student loan debt and millennial homeownership shouldn’t surprise you: College graduates with loan debt have a harder time saving up for a down payment than those who graduate debt-free. That’s according to a study released Thursday by rental website Apartment List.