A four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath house with a garden in the Corpus Christi neighborhood of Cozumel.

A four-bedroom home on Great Diamond Island in Maine, a four-bedroom compound on the eastern coast of Hawaii?s Big Island and a cottage two blocks from the beach in Encinitas, Calif.

After her husband died and her children moved away, Maryanne Stroud Gabbani built a home on a 2.5-acre lot in a village in the Old Nile Valley.

In a difficult market, developers are turning to ambitious art and design plans to entice buyers and, hopefully, make a sale.