This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Port Washington and a

This week’s properties are on Central Park West, in Chelsea and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

A law exists to balance the interests of people who renovate their properties with the interests of their neighbors.

Thanks to huge increases in values, with home sellers making double or triple what they paid, more sales are triggering the capital gains tax.

An early 19th-century Cape Cod-style home with a writing studio in Provincetown, a 1939 cottage in Austin and an 1840 house in Charleston.

“Their disdain for this house,” the designer said, “was a green light to give it a whole new life.”