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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Only five of 800 basement apartment owners who expressed interest in a program to legalize those units ultimately participated, city officials said Tuesday. The main reasons were cost and zoning that ...

Before you even think about transforming a subterranean space beneath your house, you'll need to check the rules around planning permission for a basement conversion. The process for how to convert a ...