What You Get for... $800,000 WHAT: A three-bedroom three-and-a-half-bath condominium SIZE: 2,839 square feet SETTING: This condo, in a 1935 building once used to manufacture tin boxes for cookies and crackers, is in a neighborhood called Canton, overlooking Baltimore's outer harbor. Nearby housing is a mix of early 20th-century rowhouses and condominium conversions of industrial buildings. Bars, restaurants and shops are clustered around O'Donnell Square, a park a few blocks away. Along the water, there's a promenade, a marina and a series of city parks. Downtown, on the inner harbor, is about two and a half miles away, and can be reached by a water taxi that stops outside this building. INDOORS: The condo, a three-level unit on the first, second and third floors of the building, has an open-plan great room with ceilings over 18 feet high and a wall of windows overlooking the harbor. The room also has a wall of built-in bookshelves and a balcony on the harbor side. The kitchen, partially walled off from the great room, has stainless-steel appliances, granite countertops and limestone floors. All finishes and hardware in the unit were installed within the past three years. Two of the bedrooms, including the master, are lofts, connected by a catwalk-like hallway with metal railings. Both have automated Lutron shades. The third bedroom is part of a lower-level suite, reached by spiral stairs in the great room or by a private entrance. The unit comes with two parking spots, one outside and one in an adjoining garage. OUTDOOR SPACE: Residents share a roof deck. TAXES: $11,328 a year, plus $1,128 a month in condo fees CONTACT: Cindy Conklin and Bob Merbler, Prudential Homesale YWGC Realty (443) 629-0152; cantoncove102.com WHAT: A four-bedroom three-and-a-half-bath Craftsman-style house SIZE: 4,000 square feet SETTING: This house is in Lakewood, a residential neighborhood in east Dallas set on the 1,200-acre White Rock Lake. Developed mostly from the 1930s to the "50s, the neighborhood is known for its Tudor, Craftsman, foursquare and Mediterranean-style architecture, with some new construction mixed in. The lake, less than a mile from this house, is edged by biking and running trails. Public schools in the neighborhood are a major draw, and include the award-winning Lakewood Elementary. This house is on a road flanked by old-growth red oaks that runs through a country club. A small commercial district with bars, restaurants, a Whole Foods and a 1930s theater is within a mile. The theater, the Lakewood, hosts old movies, live music and comedy. Downtown Dallas is four miles away. INDOORS: The two-story house was built in 2008 but designed to resemble a 1930s Craftsman, with extensive interior woodwork that includes beam ceilings and coffered wall panels. Floors are mostly oak. Common areas on the first floor include a living room with a fireplace flanked by built-in shelves and cabinets, a dining room and a study. Both the dining room and kitchen open to a back patio and grilling area. Off the study and first-floor bedroom is a full bath with a shower hidden behind a coffered pocket door. The other three bedrooms are upstairs, as is a playroom that can be reached by a second staircase in the kitchen. The playroom is wired for a projector, and all rooms in the house are wired for sound. In addition to an en-suite bathroom, the master has a walk-in closet and a laundry chute. Parts of the second floor are lighted by solar tubes, a type of modified skylight that uses a pipelike structure to refract and concentrate light. OUTDOOR SPACE: A backyard, a patio and a front porch TAXES: $18,112 a year (closer to $14,400 with a homestead exemption) CONTACT: Victoria Barr de Quiñones, Ebby Halliday Realtors Preston Center (214) 213-2593; dallashomesbyvictoria.com WHAT: A three-bedroom one-bath cabin on 30 acres HOW MUCH: $795,000 (or $995,000 with an additional five-acre parcel) SIZE: 1,978 square feet SETTING: This house is surrounded by the Black Hills National Forest. The park, which stretches across western South Dakota into Wyoming, is 125 miles long and 65 miles wide, encompassing dense patches of ponderosa pine, canyons, gulches, lakes and streams. The house is in a valley, 8 miles from Mount Rushmore and 20 from Rapid City, the state's second-largest city. Keystone, population 340, is an old mining town that whose primary business now is tourism around Mount Rushmore. INDOORS: The cabin was built in 1930, using timbers and rock walls from a 19th-century mill on the property. Common space is anchored by an open-plan great room with a wide brick fireplace and pitched wood-paneled ceilings 28 feet tall. Off the living room is a balcony. The kitchen has a wood-burning cook stove in addition to a gas range. Also on the first floor is an office, a screened-in porch overlooking a creek, and a redwood sauna room. Two bedrooms are off the second-floor loft. Both are wood-paneled with pitched ceilings. The master, a few steps up from the second floor, was an addition, and also has pitched wood ceilings. OUTDOOR SPACE: The house is in a grassy valley with a creek running through it, surrounded by wooded ridges and hills. TAXES: $6,879 a year CONTACT: Stephanie Lien, VIP Properties (605) 390-1571; vipproperties.com