Q. Can you tell me the way to make a basement higher? In ours you have to bend over to walk. Is it more costly to dig deeper or to lift the house? Whom do I contact who does that? A. A general ...

Mahfuza Ahmed’s spice collection was the tipping point in deciding whether she and her husband, Mehran, would move from the Back Bay. “He purchased the apartment next to his a few years back with ...