There’s nothing like the thrill of finding your first - or your fourth home. I know how hard, yet satisfying, it can be to let go of a house you have loved, to relocate near or far, and how exciting it is to find the house that checks enough of your boxes so that you see ‘home’ instead of house.

After living in many places, in the US and abroad, I sold my longtime home in Los Angeles and returned to NY where I was born and raised. After looking i...