New York City has always had a rotating cast of neighborhoods-of-the moment – buzzed-about areas where the hottest bars and restaurants, the coolest attractions, burgeoning businesses, and alluring residential properties all seem to cluster…
As real estate prices in Manhattan continue to rise to an intimidating degree, prospective condo buyers are increasingly looking to New Jersey to meet their needs. Several communities in the Garden State are stepping up in turn to attract t…
It was not an overall strong first quarter of 2018 when it came to residential sales in New York City, according to the latest report by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) . According to the report, the residential market exper…
Architecture and design have changed a lot over the years. Considerations for ‘what-goes-where,’ are very different now than say, back in the Roaring Twenties, when so much of New York’s housing stock – and hence a large proportion of today…
The main takeaways that describe the Brooklyn and Queens residential market in the first quarter of 2018 were record-setting prices and slow sales, according to Douglas Elliman's most recent 1Q 2018 report. For Brooklyn condos, the ave…
Timeshares are a mystery to many. What are they really? An investment? A vacation club? Some combination of both that affords an opportunity to have an ‘insider’ vacation with the vague sense of property ownership? The product often seems m…
People often say, “If these walls could talk...”, when considering the variety of experiences that a room has absorbed over the years and would now relate if it only could. But while talking walls are a purely hypothetical construct, prope…
The new federal tax law and rising mortgage rates were among the factors that contributed to the decline of Manhattan co-op and condo sales year-over-year during the first quarter of 2018, according to the latest report released on Tues…
New York City's 2017 residential sales set a record high of $50 billion “driven by Brooklyn's all-time high annual consideration of $11 billion this year,” according to the latest fourth quarter 2017 report by the Real Estate Board of New…
Market wide, sales prices for co-ops and condos in Manhattan have been rising steadily year-over-year for the fifth consecutive year. That is according to the latest study, 2017 Manhattan Decade Sales Report , released by Douglas El…