What is a micro-apartment? The web site Realtor.com calls it the "urban equivalent of a tiny house" — a small dwelling, typically under 300 square feet, some as little as 100 — that is gaining ...

Interior designer Julya Grundberg shows off a fully furnished 325-square-foot studio apartment during an exhibit displaying a transformable "micro-unit" at the Museum of the City of New York January ...

Micro-units took off as a rental trend in the Twin Cities roughly a decade ago. They are compact apartments, often railcar-shaped. Their origins are traced to high-density solutions from 1970s Japan. ...

When Alterra Property Group converted a vintage Center City office tower to apartments in 2015, the 60 micro-units in the Avenir at 1515 South Chestnut St. were a big hit. Despite skepticism from ...

A developer will be able to build the six micro-apartment buildings that the city of Santa Monica moved to block earlier this year. WS Communities, a spinoff of developer NMS Properties, threatened to ...

"Living in a small space forces you to constantly re-evaluate your finances, your hobbies, your priorities in life," says Amy ...