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2/25/2021 Finally, almost move-in day at East Hampton Town's first affordable condos—Newsday

Residents of East Hampton Town’s first affordable housing condominium complex are finally expected to move in this weekend following nearly 15 months of delays tied to air-quality concerns.
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2/24/2021 Owners $1.3B behind on property tax payments—Real Estate Weekly

City Comptroller Scott Stringer today reported that, as of February, $1.3 billion in real estate tax payments were overdue – equal to 4.5% of the total $29.6 billion due.
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2/24/2021 April Tyler, Tenacious Harlem Housing Advocate, Dies At 60—Patch.com

April Tyler, a prominent activist in West Harlem who fought for affordable housing as a district leader and community board member, died suddenly this week at the age of 60.
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2/24/2021 It’s Time To Fix the Co-Op Problem—Law.com

Governor Cuomo signed the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (L. 2020, c. 381; COVID Relief Act) on Dec. 28, 2020 providing needed and welcome, albeit temporary, housing security for many vulnerable New Yorkers as the State recovers from a continuing health pandemic.
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2/24/2021 Exclusive: Introducing Greenwich West, New York City’s First Tower Built By A French Female Architect—Forbes

Classic Parisian style has landed in New York City’s Hudson Square neighborhood, adjacent to SoHo and Tribeca.
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2/24/2021 DeNardo Bankruptcy Staves Off UCC Foreclosure on Westchester Condo Development—Commercial Observer

A virtual uniform commercial code (UCC) foreclosure auction that was scheduled to take place today on a luxury condominium development site in Westchester County has been staved off by a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by the developer, Commercial Observer has learned.
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2/24/2021 See the new Long Island City condo tower anchored by Trader Joe’s—6sqft

A new condo building in Long Island City is offering buyers a rare amenity in New York: private outdoor space.
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2/23/2021 Appeals Court Focuses on Meaning of Four-Letter Word to Block Suit Against Two Bridges Development Plan—The Broadsheet Daily

A coalition of community groups opposed to three massive real estate developments planned for the Lower East Side were dealt a setback on Tuesday, when the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court reversed a trial-court ruling from last year that said the projects were required to undergo a more rigorous form of public review before final approval.
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2/23/2021 A Habitat Chapter Embraces Community Land Trusts in the Big Apple—Nonprofit Quarterly

“People believe they know what Habitat for Humanity is,” says Karen Haycox, CEO of Habitat for Humanity New York City (Habitat NYC), which has operated for 35 years and whose work now extends into nearby Westchester County.
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2/23/2021 Does New York Need a New La Guardia?—The Village Voice

On the afternoon of October 2, 1935, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, a silver-plated shovel in hand, dug into the Midwood soil.
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2/23/2021 How the Real Estate Lobby Exploits Small Landlords—Teen Vogue

Mami Garcia will never move out of her apartment. “The only way God will take me away from this home is when I close my eyes for the last time,” she says.
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2/23/2021 Four Things to Know About the Housing Market in 2021—Barron's

Last year was an exceptional one for the housing market, which boomed in the second half.
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2/17/2021 De Blasio Pledges Last Gasp Property Tax Reform Effort—Gotham Gazette

After getting "derailed" by the pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio is reviving one of his earliest and most delayed mayoral commitments: to reform an out-of-date and unequal property tax system.
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2/17/2021 Tishman Realty strikes bulk condo deal with Elad Group—The Real Deal

In a sign of the increasing pressure faced by Manhattan’s condo developers, the Elad Group is selling a large block of the remaining units at its Hell’s Kitchen new development for roughly $90 million.
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2/17/2021 An attorney discusses exterior walls and roof repairs in co-ops and condos—New York Real Estate Journal

The exterior walls and roofs of buildings are like the “new frontier” people think about when they have run out of space and need to expand.
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2/17/2021 Manhattan saw more apartment sales last month than any January since 2014—New York Post

Manhattan home sales sizzled last month, pushed to a seven-year high by NYC bargain hunters taking advantage of pandemic pricing.
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2/12/2021 Setting up a citywide real estate recovery in 2021—World Property Journal

The Real Estate Board of New York is reporting this week that New York City's total residential sales volume and total residential transactions increased significantly in the final quarter of 2020, according to its Q4 2020 Quarterly Residential Sales Report.
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2/12/2021 What’s the Latest on New York’s Proposed Pied-a-Terre Tax?—Mansion Global

Q. What is the latest New York City pied-a-terre tax proposal and who could it affect?
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2/11/2021 'WaterWorks' project submits revised plan for waterfront condos—The Ithaca Voice

Most of the Ithaca's developers tend to live on the more luxurious side, as their incomes can allow them to be.
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2/11/2021 Asian-American New Yorkers battle Chinese developers over a luxury complex in the city’s Flushing neighbourhood—South China Morning Post

Song Deping landed in the United States with little money and big dreams in 2004, settling in New York City’s Flushing neighbourhood.
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